How can I improve my memory?

Add RAM ;-)
or some people suggest ginseng

Read Your Memory.

Read any Harry Lorayne. He’s the memory authority!

Stop eating fatty foods.

You can use programs like Brain Workshop, which can improve your working memory (and actually make you smarter). You can also try picking up some books and reading. People who read tend to have sharper memories (probably because of remembering characters and plot twists and so forth). I’ve also read that trying to memorize specific things, like vocabulary words or different languages, improves your memory in other areas because that part of the brain is being trained.

Eat blueberries, eggs, and salmon. Exercise regularly. Read regularly. Check out a book called The Memory Bible

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@se_ven thanks, I fixed it :)

I’d suggest not necessarily working on your memory alone. Full development of your brain will result in an overall imporvement. Take an online course that interests you but challenges you. Somthing completely new that you have never thought much about. For me, I am learning a new language. It’s been fun, challenging and very mentally stimulating.

Good Luck! – LB

Memory, a very interesting topic and one which I have studied a lot. So I assume you know how neural pathways work, if you don’t use them then they start growing weeds and trees and so forth and it is no longer easy to travel down those pathways. The best way to remember things is to connect to something you already know. You kind of make a exit of an already well traveled pathway or freeway (however it works best for you). You need to make connections. So if you are trying to remember something, find something in your brain that you already know and connect it to that. Music, colors, charts, pictures all these things also help to make connections, as our brains don’t only think in words. It would also be helpful to find out what intelligence you are. Look up Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences and find the checklist to help you figure it out, if you don’t already know. Once you know how you learn best it is easier to figure out some tricks to help you remember.

Not to be alarmist, but forgetting “random vocabulary words” isn’t normal. That is, if it’s actual forgetting as opposed to the ‘it’s on the tip of my tongue’ kind of thing. If it were me, I’d get checked out ASAP.

Yes I agree with @ccrow if it is increasingly getting worse go to a Dr. ASAP.

@ccrow—yes, it’s more like on the tip of my tongue, but there have been a few things that have taken longer than normal which is what bothered me….

Invent mnemonic hooks using graphic images in a funny short story. Suppose you meet someone named Rodan Zappa. Picture him as someone sitting on a couch with a remote control in his hand. He’s channel zapping until he stops, eyes wide open. There’s a rodent on television gnawing at something that looks like a remote control.

I’m not kidding. Crazy little stories like this will give your brain and its associative cortex no choice but to remember it. All you need is a short moment of focus. Pay attention to your own little story. You won’t ever forget it.

As many people are saying, mnemonic devices are key to improving memory. All is said in that book – I’m telling you, pick it up.

It explains how we learn and store away information and how to “organize” your brain to function as a file cabinet would; all easily available, categorized for instant recall.

By far one of the most important books I’ve ever read, it lays a great foundation for the rest of your learning life.

I think if I met someone named Rodan, my mnemonic would be the giant pterodactyl type movie monster Rodan, not a rodent! And the zapping part could be from Godzilla…

Whatever the hook as long as your brain takes the bait.