You will never forget something important again

Cologne Forgot to send the important email? Call back the customer? Or are you surprised again by the deadline in the calendar tomorrow? Small glitches in your memory can have a big impact on your work.

Even laptops, cell phones and the Internet cannot always help in such cases. “If we move our knowledge further outside, we become mentally impoverished,” says Markus Hofmann, one of the most famous memory trainers in Germany. “You need a broad general knowledge to make connections and to look at things from different perspectives,” explains the 46-year-old.

The basis for this: a good memory.

And actually everyone has that, says Hoffmann. It is just overstimulated. Therefore, it is important in advance to select hard what exactly you want to remember and then apply special techniques.

Here are three tips from the expert to help you improve your memory.

Tip 1: Remember terms, names and numbers with the Loci method