Good Sleep

Good sleep helps consolidating your memory. One should have 7.5 hours of GOOD sleep on average. The book, `The Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory’, recommends following for getting a good sleep:

• A scheduled sleep
• Morning exercise, not night exercise
• Dark room; 15-18 degree Celsius
• No coffee after midmorning. Yes I check it several times: midmorning or about 10 oclock. Hard?
• Limited alcohol.
• No naps
• Drink warm milk
• Do not force to sleep; try 20 minutes, if fail, get up, and do non-exciting activities
• Relax
• If you are taking medications, ask the doctor about their effect on sleeping

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LS-PREPOST

I tried to download LS-PREPOST for a couple of times from http://www.lstc.com/lspp/, but I found it is slow, and not responsive. I tried again today, but unlike the past time where I used Google Chrome, this time I used Internet Explore 8.0, and it works very well. 

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Memory management

Following points are summarized from a book: “The Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory”. Those points are from Chapter 10, Practical Strategies to Enhance Everyday Memory, of the book.

• Getting organized will improved your memory.  Maintain a clutter-free environment.
• Single unique focus.
• Rephrase information you want to remember.
• Repetition in a spaced interval
• Comprehension or understanding. Check yourself with questions.
• Make a note; joting down helps reinforce your memory
• Do in small chunk.
• Be patient
• Mnemonics – Effective for remembering listlike information
• Associations – Good for memorizing pin, password, and so on
• Grouping, and chunking
• Method of loci – Good for remembering a speech
• SQ3R – Good for gathering massive information such as reading a technical paper.

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