Memory Building
What does memory building mean?
Process of actively improving the ability to store and recall information through various techniques and practices.
Why is it important to be adaptable if you want to be successful?
Being adaptable is crucial for success because life is full of unexpected twists and turns. Being flexible and open to change allows you to navigate challenges, seize new opportunities, and grow as you learn to thrive in different situations.
What does charisma mean?
It's the ability to charm others with your personality and make them feel drawn to you.
Why is it important to be competitive? Give 3 reasons.
Helps gain resources
Become successful
Leads to innovation
Build better relationships
Increases your motivation
How do you think information overload and lack of sleep can impact your memory?
Information Overload: On a daily basis, you encounter a lot of information.This overload of information can make it hard to remember everything.
Lack of Sleep:When you're in a deep sleep, your brain transfers information from short-term to long-term memory. So if you don't get enough sleep, your short-term memory won't stick around for long.
How can an unhealthy focus on an outcome or a goal cause you to do unethical things?
In our daily lives, we often come across situations where the way we're rewarded can influence our behavior. We start to prioritize the end result of something and don’t care about how we get there.
What kind of body language will a charismatic person display?
Smile a lot
Maintain an open posture
Maintain eye contact and nod
What are some signs that someone is hypercompetitive? Give atleast 3.
You want to outdo or ‘beat’ others in everything.
You’re not interested in games where there is no clear winner or loser
You constantly check on how others are performing and tend to compare yourself to them
You enjoy when someone says you ‘can’t do something’ and proving them wrong
You find it hard to accept someone did better than you
Hana is having a hard time studying for her finals. Her current routine involves spending one entire day on one subject. How do you think this study routine is affecting her memory? What can she do instead?
Spending a large amount of time after one thing can lead to mental burnout and lack of attention which leads you to focus less on what you are doing and affects memory. Instead she should try the practice of interleaving which is where you breakdown your tasks into small chunks and keep switching the tasks as you go on.
If you face an ethical dilemma, you can use an ethical test to see which option is more ethical for you to implement. Describe these ethical tests:
1. Front Page Test
2. Time Test
3. Family Test
Front-Page Test: This is where you imagine your decision and its consequences being published on the front page of a newspaper or shared widely on social media.
Time Test: If you were to give yourself 2 days, 3 days, 5 days to think about the decision, will it change your decision?
Family test: Family test is where you think about explaining your decision to your parents. Think about how they would feel knowing what you did.
One way to be more charismatic is by telling sticky stories. What are sticky stories and what are some techniques to tell those stories?
To make your conversations memorable, use sticky stories. These are stories that have a lasting impact on the listener.
Some techniques:
Build an attention grabbing hook
Use metaphors and anecdotes
Sound confident and use varied tone
Pause for effect
One reason why someone is overly trusting is because of their own biases. Explain how any of the two biases lead you to be overly trusting.
The biases are:
1.Confirmation Bias
2.Overestimation Bias
3.Third-Party Bias
1. Confirmation Bias: We only look for evidence that agrees with our inner belief. So if we think positively about someone we look for positive evidence.
2. Overestimation Bias: We believe that we are so good at identifying untrustworthy people that we forget that people can fake it very easily.
3. Third Party Bias: We tend to trust people that our friends or loved ones trust, assuming that their judgement is always right
What is spaced repetition and how does it help with your memory?
Spaced repetition is a study technique that involves reviewing and practicing information at intervals over time. It's like watering a plant regularly to help it grow stronger.
There are 3 things that stop us from being adaptable. Explain how each one decreases our adaptability.
1. Loss of control = increased uncertainty
2. Break from routine
3. More work
Loss of control = increased uncertainty : Because you have no idea what is going on and feel like you have no control over anything, so you prefer to avoid it.
Break from routine: You are used to a certain lifestyle and you want to continue your habits and not change it up.
More work: You feel like because it is something new, you have to relearn everything and also learn how to deal with the new obstacles which requires a lot more work.
A technique to become more resourceful is to force yourself to go into a resource deficit. What does it mean and how does it make you resourceful?
Resource deficit is where you constantly train yourself to find solutions from a limited pool of resources. You practice this on a daily basis for small tasks. This will help practice your resourcefulness skill.
Samara wanted to learn how to trust others in a healthy way. So she started developing a reputation of toughness around people. How do you think that helped her trust others?
By showing that you're willing to trust but also ready to stand up for yourself, you create a strong signal that keeps fake people away and encourages others to trust you.
Why are we able to remember song lyrics but not what we read in our textbooks? What memorization technique is the reason for it?
Active Recall: This is the technique where you constantly recall your newly gained knowledge. When we listen to a song multiple times, each time the lyrics are being actively recalled versus a textbook that we read once.
One way to be more adaptable is to practice the learn-unlearn-relearn cycle. What does it mean and how does it make you adaptable?
Once we learn how to do something, it becomes very difficult for us to go against that knowledge that our brain has and change it. So you have to actively be aware and open to new knowledge and constantly keep changing it so that you can blend into different surroundings.
What is the biggest resource around you and how can you use it to become more resourceful?
The people around you are the biggest resource you can have. Learn to use that to your advantage. They have the most amount of impact on who you are and what you do in your life so that means the best thing for you is to learn from their experiences.
"Train yourself to be an expectation not a human being" What does this mean and how does it help you develop a healthy competitive spirit?
Use the people around you to give an expectation you want to beat, not the person. Once you get to a point where there is no one above you, the only thing you can do is beat your expectations. So try to beat the expectation than human beings as the people will change but the expectation will not.