Long Term Memory: Nelson Dellis And Michael Mirski
Some people are born with good memories while others know how to train their mind to develop a good memory. That is the case with Nelson Dellis and Michael Mirski, the 1st and 3rd place winners of the USA Memory Championship, they were not born with good memories but they were able to train their memories. The only difference between Nelson Dellis and a normal person is that he knows how to use his memory extremely well. ( Dig deeper paragraph 1). Nelson Dellis and Michael Mirski use many different techniques to improve their memories.
Dellis and Mirski are very successful throughout memory competitions because of their abilities to train their memories. (A test to remember, paragraph 6). Nelson Dellis was 28 years old when he took top prize …show more content…
( Dig deeper paragraph 3) In Michael Mirski and Nelson Dellis case they were able to perfect this technique and that is what has made them so great at memory competition. Short term memory lasts only for about 20 seconds and usually only holds somewhere between five and nine items before the storage space fills up and the person begins to forget those memories. (Dig deeper paragraph 4) Short-term memory helps us to briefly retain information just while we are actively thinking about it. In contrast many scientists believe that long-term memory has infinite storage capacity. Another way that can help you change memories from your short term to your long term memory is that you can realize that if you try to think about the information in a different way you might be able to remember it for more than just a few …show more content…
Mirski and Dellis never did have naturally good memories. But both Mirski and Dellis have been very successful at memory competitions, but that is only because of their abilities to train their memories. To become good memorizers, Dellis and Mirski had to learn how to move memories from their short term memory to their long term memory. Dellis spent a lot of time practicing his ability to take otherwise meaningless information and make it somehow meaningful to him so that he would be able to remember it. It took a lot of practice for him to be able to change short term memories to long term memories. The trick is to try and make it important to you in a way that you can remember it
Dellis and Mirski are very successful throughout memory competitions because of their abilities to train their memories. (A test to remember, paragraph 6). Nelson Dellis was 28 years old when he took top prize …show more content…
( Dig deeper paragraph 3) In Michael Mirski and Nelson Dellis case they were able to perfect this technique and that is what has made them so great at memory competition. Short term memory lasts only for about 20 seconds and usually only holds somewhere between five and nine items before the storage space fills up and the person begins to forget those memories. (Dig deeper paragraph 4) Short-term memory helps us to briefly retain information just while we are actively thinking about it. In contrast many scientists believe that long-term memory has infinite storage capacity. Another way that can help you change memories from your short term to your long term memory is that you can realize that if you try to think about the information in a different way you might be able to remember it for more than just a few …show more content…
Mirski and Dellis never did have naturally good memories. But both Mirski and Dellis have been very successful at memory competitions, but that is only because of their abilities to train their memories. To become good memorizers, Dellis and Mirski had to learn how to move memories from their short term memory to their long term memory. Dellis spent a lot of time practicing his ability to take otherwise meaningless information and make it somehow meaningful to him so that he would be able to remember it. It took a lot of practice for him to be able to change short term memories to long term memories. The trick is to try and make it important to you in a way that you can remember it