Imagine that you open your history book and expect to be greeted by a dull and boring black and blue text book with only a few colour pictures in between. But what you are pleasantly surprised to see instead is a cheerful comic strip of the same historical characters but in vivid and lively colours.
Welcome to a memory technique called ‘Memory Comic Strips’! Each one of you has an artist within you. While some of you may end up becoming a Picasso or a Da Vinci, most of you can use art as a technique to enhance your memory powers.
Sounds silly and a littletough to digest? Well, here’s a little bit about how art can help sharpen the brain. If I say the word mango, what comes in front of your eyes? A yellow or a green fruit, something juicy, or a mango drink? Let’s try another one. Chimpanzee! Now, what do you see? Yes, a brown hairy creature swinging from tree to tree, scratching or jumping or eating a banana? Well, what you do see is actually an image as the brain can recall an image much faster than it can recall a word.
So how about feeding the brain images so that when we need the information, the brain is able to give it to us quickly!
(The author has over two decades of teaching experience in well-established schools)