3 out of 1001 is not an arithmetic exercise. It’s just the continuation of the series designed to keep our natural memory in top shape. So let’s not talk too much.
The First of 3
Look carefully at the image at the end of this article for 1 minute. Try to remember as many details as possible. Then, without having the image in front of you, write down what you remember. Check yourself and identify what you missed. Or maybe you added. Set a time and resume the exercise.
Was it easier the second time around? If so, why? If not, why?
To be able to give an answer, see which of the statements below suit you:
I have a good visual memory.
I have a photographic memory, I manage to grasp an image in its entirety.
I make connections between things and thus retain them more easily.
My memory only works well if things are in my area of nterest.
I remember concrete things more easily than abstract notions.
The Second One
Take a paper and a pencil and draw:
In the upper left corner of the sheet, a circle tangent to both sides of the sheet. From this circle, draw a diagonal line. Draw 5 lines perpendicular to the diagonal. At the end of each of the 5 lines, draw 4 petals. From the lower left corner of the sheet, draw a zigzag diagonal. At the bottom of the sheet write the name of the town where you are now.
Hide the drawing. After about half an hour or another interval of your choice, write or just say all the directions in order. After another break of time, draw on another sheet all the details in reverse order, according to the directions you remember. Don’t read them. Check yourself after you have completed the entire exercise.
Not the last one
Read the text once:
Maria’s red dress, received as a gift for the banquet, did not match the shoes she had just bought. Dissatisfied, she returned to the store and tried to change them. The saleswoman was extremely kind and, asking the other three customers of the store to wait, brought Maria a pair of black shoes from the warehouse. The shoes had two flaws. Maria was getting angrier and angrier. The seller changed the shoes once again, but with some gray shoes that she had in the window. They were to small for Maria. The store’s customers were already irritated. The saleswoman, impatient, took a random pair of shoes from the bottom shelf. These were perfect and cost only 7 euro more than the others. Maria looked at the saleswoman and congratulated her on the calmness with which she treated the situation.
Without the text in front of you, answer the questions:
What are the words in the text that name colors?
What are the words that name numbers?
What are the words that describe the emotional state of the two women?
What were the places from which the saleswoman brought Mary’s shoes?
If you are not very satisfied with your results, you can always repeat the exercises. Remember, they are called exercises because they need to be done systematically and repeatedly, according to the Cambridge Dictionary.
Make up your own memory games based on the suggestions on this site. Creativity goes perfectly with a good memory. The associative theory of creativity says that creative thinking is aided in part by the organization of associations in semantic memory, that is, how the elements of our knowledge are connected. Creativity is dependent on our knowledge and experiences and our ability to store and recall them.
