Memories are made of this

How can we remember more than eight to 10 episodic memories from this year?

Get out of your routine.

Vacation to a new city, rearrange the furniture, celebrate a half birthday, eat at a new restaurant, rent your dream car for a weekend. Routine, ho-hum, vanillaagain days are the kiss of death to remembering what happened.

Get off devices, look up.

You can’t remember what you don’t notice, and you’re not noticing what’s happening if your eyes are glued to your phone. Your best friend from kindergarten might have been in the line in front of you at the cafe, but you totally missed that memorable reunion because you spent the entire time browsing Facebook. If you want to have vivid, three dimensional, richly detailed memories of what’s happening in your life, you’ve got to get out there and live in the three dimensional world.