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Forgetting everything you hear in classes or meetings? Your overstuffed notepad might be the culprit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us take notes because we think doing so will help us remember what we’re learning. According to psychologists at Mount St. Vincent University in New York, our brains have a different view: \u201cHey, he\u2019s writing this down, so no need to warehouse this stuff. Better to make room for other stuff.\u201d (Your brain may sound different, but that\u2019s how mine talks.) Researchers call this phenomenon intentional forgetting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In experiments, subjects played the memory game Concentration, in which players memorize images on cards and try to identify them after the cards have been covered up. Half of the subjects were able to study the cards before they were covered; the other half were allowed to take notes. Then the researchers took away the notes and made them play. The note-takers did significantly worse than the group that knew they had to concentrate on the images and position of the cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers concluded that \u201cparticipants adopted an intentional-forgetting strategy when using notes to store certain types of information.\u201d In other words, taking notes didn\u2019t improve memory; it made recall worse because the brain was forgetting as fast as its owner was writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next time a boss asks why you\u2019re not taking notes, explain that you want to make sure you remember. (On the other hand, if you\u2019re completely spaced out, it\u2019s always useful to have notes to fall back on.)Excerpted from Business Week article \u2013 \u2018Taking Notes Kills Your Memory\u2019 By Ira Sager <\/em><\/a> December 23, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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