September 2009

Memorizing in Context (September 29 2009)

I quit university at age 19.

People were probably upset with me. I remember overhearing a friend’s mom refer to me as, “floundering,” once.

After two years in school, I finished my last psych course with a “P” (that’s a whole other story) and gained an Arts Associate diploma. It took all my energy to finish that fourth semester and I knew I didn’t have it in me to continue.

What was I even going to do with my diploma? I had no plans.

So, I went to Bible College.

Total Recall—How to Make Short-Term Information Long-Term Memories (September 22 2009)

There are many effective and original methods to memorization. People remember differently and it’s important to find a way that works for you.

Sept. 2009’s Insights Canada Magazine, focused on the how’s and why’s of memorization.

“I just can’t memorize!”

How many times can you remember hearing yourself or someone crying these words in frustration? Memorization is tough, and people go to all sorts of lengths to avoid it.

Besides, we have technology telling us what we need to know. We’ve evolved past memorization—why do we need to remember anything when a machine will do it for us?

Forgetting—the Punchline (September 8 2009)

Once upon a time, in 2003, an Ocellaris clownfish named Marlin, in a movie called Finding Nemo, tried to tell a joke.

“All right, I know one joke. Um, there’s a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn’t walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn’t moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they—I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I…”

How. Embarrassing.

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