Are you wondering how you can use look, snap, connect to improve memory?

Dr. Gary Small, professor of Psychiatry and Aging at the UCLA School of Medicine, created a 3-step memory technique he calls look, snap, connect. It doesn’t matter what you are learning. These same 3 steps make up the building blocks for remembering anything from the most important things in your life to the more trivial.

Look, Snap, Connect to Improve Memory

Look stands for focusing attention. The biggest reason that people don’t remember things is they’re simply not paying attention. You’re running outside the house and you can’t remember whether you did some minor task because you weren’t paying attention.

Snap is a reminder to create a mental snapshot of information you want to recall later. Many of us find it easier to remember visual information than other types of information.

And then the third step connect, is just a way of linking up those mental snapshots, so an example would be if I’m running out quickly and I have two errands, pick up eggs and go to the post office. I might visualize in my mind an egg with a stamp on it.

Many people complain about everyday memory slips. They misplace their keys, their glasses. They forget appointments and these problems are very annoying to most of us. There are simple things we can do to improve on that. I mean certainly using look, snap, connect can help, just the process of focusing attention will help us remember where we place objects.

You can watch the video or scroll down and read the transcript here.

Look, Snap, Connect to Improve Memory

Having an easy formula you can rely on every time you need to remember information, names, a shopping list, or where you put your keys is a really useful tool.

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