David Askaripour over at Mind Petals made a solid post, 5 Tips to Improve Your Memory. Good tips, but I think he missed something key. Remembering something comes down to one thing—and one thing only in my opinion.
The key is to consciously decide whether or not you really want to remember.
It’s the same thing with waking yourself up in the morning. If you go to bed thinking “it’s not really THAT important that I wake up at 7am”, then when you wake up at 7am you will subconsciously remind yourself that it’s not that important to get up, so you’ll go back to sleep. So then, you’ll end up waking up @9:30 and curse yourself for not getting up when you planned to. “I don’t even remember turning off the alarm clock….” Has that ever happened to you?
Want to remember someone’s name? Then stop making stupid excuses like “I’m horrible with names, yadda yadda.” Excuses like that are for losers. Once you consciously DECIDE that you WANT to remember something it becomes a lot easier. The mind is an amazingly powerful machine, so the power of unconscious thought has a lot more importance than you may realize. Just test it out.
And if you really keep forgetting, then perhaps subconsciously, you don’t take your job/friends/future as seriously as you thought you did. The weak are a slave to their thoughts. Tame your subconscious thoughts and you have the power to do just about anything—-and yes, that certainly includes remembering that guy’s name you met at that place…
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Great post. I never thought about how our subconscious thoughts could also affect our ability to remember things too. I’ll be trying this out. Thank you.