Martin Mak

How You Perceive Yourself Affects How Well You Learn

Is it possible that your mental performance hinges on how you think people perceive you or how you perceive yourself? Professor Robert Rosenthal of Harvard University discovered many years ago how powerfully your perceptions of people can affect their be... Read >

Take a midday nap for a fitter brain

Does this sound familiar? You just had a heavy lunch and you feel sleepy and lethargic. Well then, take a short nap, even if its just for 10 minutes. Midday naps have long been recommended as beneficial both for the mind and body. It improves your mem... Read >

Your Brain And Tips To Improve Memory Retention

Suffering from information overload? Information management is increasingly becoming an essential skill for students and for people in the workforce. Many people, perhaps most people, feel that they have too much to read and too many facts to keep track... Read >

How To Improve Your Memory Skills

Imagine if you will, we are all robots designed for a specific task, and we are all controlled by a computer in our head. When we need to do more tasks, our owners could simply install a motherboard, chip or hard-disk to upgrade our memory and learning c... Read >

10 Ways To Improve Long Term Memory

What is human memory? Simply stated, memory is the mental processes that are used to acquire, store, retain and later retrieve information. The information can be obtained from our 5 senses before they are processed by the brain. There are three maj... Read >

How To Use Self Hypnosis To Improve Your Memory

Many people have a common misconception of hypnosis or the notion of being hypnotized. We often picture a stage performer waving his hand in front of a volunteer and making him or her go into a deep trance or sleep. Thereafter, with the mention of an a... Read >

How You Can Naturally Acquire Information

Acquiring information by relating the information to your personal experience, requires more activity than just committing it to memory. Nevertheless, the activity is so much more pleasant and you remember better! You will probably not experience it as... Read >

10 Steps To Improved Concentration

Now, more than ever, people are finding it more difficult to get their mind concentrated on the task at hand. This is because of the fast paced world we live in. We are often called to multi-task, or, to do a few tasks at the same time. For example, a... Read >

Learn how your brain works to prevent information overload

Why do so many people suffer from information overload and so few people achieve information mastery? If you are interested to improve your mind, improve your memory, improve concentration and to remember tons of information, there are memory training m... Read >

How To Exercise Your Memory

If you think that you can get smarter if you use your brains more often, you are partially correct. While exercising your memory or "using your brain" more often does not boost your IQ, it can help improve your memory. And a good solid memory is the cor... Read >

Tips And Techniques To Improve Short Term Memory

If you need to recall something that you learnt just a few seconds ago, to maybe 2 minutes ago, you are using your short term memory. Many factors affect your short term memory, also known as working memory. Understanding, or being aware of these factor... Read >

How To Master Any Kind Of Information And Be An Expert

What makes a successful speaker or a seminar leader? What makes some people so engaging when they speak on the podium on a subject? The secret of successful speakers and seminar leaders is that they "own" the information they present instead of just kee... Read >

How Your Brain Can Adapt In Difficult Times

During the 1930s and early ‘40s, a whole generation in succession experienced the stress of the Great Depression and then World War II. You may have parents, grandparents, or perhaps great - grandparents who have personal recollections of that difficu... Read >

Adapting Your Mind To Cope With Change.

Whether you lose your job, or a relationship breaks up or someone close falls ill, major crises are a fact of life. They happen to all of us. Learning to cope and move on entails the period of time for expansion and self-expression as well as the period... Read >

Training Your Mind Can Turn Your Life Around

The human consciousness is the awareness of oneself as a being that thinks and learns. Consider the difference between your consciousness and its closest relation, emotional awareness. Since the time of Freud (who lived from 1856 to 1939), we as a soci... Read >