Brain workout enhances your memory

How to sharpen your brain without taking memory-enhancing pills? It’s simple. Just use your brain. The more you indulge in ‘brain workout’, the better it will be able to process and remember information, says Tushar Chetwani who has penned a 160-page book ‘Memory Infinite’, which he claims will be of help to children between classes 5 and 12 in sharpening their brains and in increasing concentration levels.

Just like muscular strength, the ability to remember increases when one exercises his/her memory and nurtures it with good diet and other healthy habits. Memory, like muscular strength, is a ‘use it or lose it’ proposition, he says.

There are a number of steps students can take to improve their memory and retrieval capacity. This book has been divided into two sections: The first is ‘memory techniques’ which will help students in memorising difficult terms, geography maps, mathematical tables, history dates, long answers and almost all that a student needs to memorise.

And the other is ‘examination special’. Through this section, students will understand the dos and don’ts while preparing for exams. They will come to know about the scientific revision plan (i.e. after how many days any topic needs to be revised), role of sleep and many other things.

“I strongly believe that this section alone can help students prevent silly mistakes that they commit in their exams and is a must for students of classes 5 to 12,” he said.

Justice Uma Nath Singh, senior judge, Allahabad high court, Lucknow bench released the book at a simple function on Saturday. Alok K Mitra (IRS), additional commissioner, income tax, Lucknow and several other dignitaries were present on this occasion. The Hindi version of the book will be launched in a few months from now.

“Normally school children spend almost half the day studying. Six hours in school, 2-3 hours at tuition centre and the rest of the time studying at home. They keep revising till a minute before the examination, but still tend to forget simple answers inside the exam hall,” said the author.

“But the moment they are out of the exam hall, they are able to recollect the answers. This proves that the answer was not forgotten and was there in his memory. Does it mean that the child has a bad memory? The answer is a clear No. The fact is that all have a terrific memory, except that we have not learnt how to use it,” he said.