Does anxiety cause memory loss? In a word, yes. I know this personally because I went through a lot of anxiety during both high school and university. I’ll tell you more about how I mostly solved and now deal in a mature manner with my anxiety in a moment. But first, here’s something counterintuitive to understand. Anxiety can also increase your me…

Prospective memory is fascinating. Your entire future success in life relies on it working well. Why? Well, let me ask you this: How do you know that in the future you will remember to remember? To test our ability to remember the need to remember in the future, researchers S. L. Penningroth and W.D. Scott asked a bunch of university students the f…

Are you looking for cognitive activities for adults to stimulate your brain? I sure am. As I age, it’s getting increasingly clearer that our cognitive abilities and brain health weaken with age. Illness, caused by genetics or poor habits challenges cognition and memory too. Here’s the good news: Cognitive stimulation activities provide a way to def…

Can you be both an autodidact and a polymath? Is there really a difference between the two? The short answer is that you have to be autodidactic in order to be polymathic. At least to a certain degree. If there’s an exception to this rule, I’m unaware of it – and I’ve been studying the fields of learning and memory for decades. As you learn more ab…

Visual memory techniques make learning faster and easier. Yet, some people find them confusing. I don’t blame them. That’s because the word “visual” is not quite right. Or better said, there’s a missing ingredient that often needs to come first before you mentally picture the mnemonics you’re using as part of learning. On this page, I’m going to cl…

Giordano Bruno wrote many books about memory techniques. The mnemonic strategies they contain are really good. But many are notoriously difficult to read. For one thing, Bruno rarely just gets down to teaching the techniques. They’re often mixed in with all kinds of elaborate astronomy and philosophy. Was there any method to this madness? Or was he…