Use Your Senses

For a week, make it a point to observe an object or a person daily. You can do this while you’re traveling in the metro or at the office during tea break. In the notepad that you keep handy, draw the object or the person immediately.

This will exercise your short-term memory. At the end of the week, on that Sunday evening, draw all the seven objects or people again, without looking back into your notepad. This will exercise your long-term memory. When I say “draw”, that doesn’t mean that your drawings have to be pieces of art. Since you’re the only one who’s going to look at them, it won’t matter if the apple you’ve drawn resembles your neighbor’s wife’s backside!