by A Midwestern Doctor at The Forgotten Side of Medicine
Remembering the things we are thankful for
Story at a Glance:
•Academic success is primarily based on one’s ability to memorize material. Unfortunately, the educational system rarely teaches students how to do that.
•Effective learning requires actively rather than passively engaging with the required material and being conscious of what is going on inside your body and mind so that you can determine which approaches are correct for you.
•Many of the same factors that determine overall health and neurological health (e.g., a healthy sleep cycle and adequate circulation throughout the body) also directly influence your capacity to study and memorize.
•This article will review some of the key points we’ve found are the most critical for effective memorization.
As we all sit down for a Thanksgiving dinner with our friends and family, we are encouraged to focus upon what we are truly grateful for and what’s really important in life. To this end, I frequently think of this quote (which I have seen more variations of than I can count):
Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die,
and then dies having never really lived.
Note: this cuts across all income brackets. For example, a few colleagues have recently consulted me on cases where wealthy patients had spent millions on treatments for complex disorders that did not significantly improved because their medical team was not able (or financially incentivized) to address the root causes of their illness—which always amazes me to watch unfold as the solutions we use for those types of “incurable” illnesses are often quite simple, but despite their results, rarely tried due to the unshakeable faith our society has in the supremacy of conventional medicine.
Since we live in a marketing-based-economy, our focus is primed to be on the things we can’t have, and as a result, many people spend their entire lives chasing things like credentials, material possessions, social status or being “right” on the political issue the media currently has primed them to fixate on—all of which rarely brings happiness and contentment to people. Conversely, again and again, I see that when people’s basic health is threatened (e.g., from a COVID vaccine disability or at the end of life), their perception flips, the things they chased become immaterial, and all they really care about are things they previously took for granted such as exercising in nature or being able to enjoy simple things in life with those they care about.
For this reason,…
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