Any good advice, I am looking to increase my sharpness Please help!?

My memory is somewhat weak and I have most trouble reacting to certain situations. I tend to freeze or blurt out irrelevant thoughts, especially when I am nervous. Any who, anyone else have this issue? What can I do?Any good advice, I am looking to increase my sharpness Please help!?
Get yourself a book of, or find on the internet, ';brain teasers'; and puzzles. According to Mensa, doing puzzles and brain teasers can increase IQ by 5 points or more, and improve memory by an average 30 percent.





Learn stuff. Follow links to interesting info from your Yahoo home page, watch the History/National Geo channels (and other good-for-you programming.) The more bits of useful information you know, the easier it is to apply that information, which should improve your conversational skills, and sharpen your mental skills.





Practice, practice. practice. Get yourself some file cards and write out ';talking points'; and memorize them. A talking point could be anything from the weather to current events to music -- whatever you wish. If you have a talking point, you are rarely at a loss for words, and once you are comfortable with your talking points, this will free you up to expand into conversational areas that aren't covered on your file cards.





The key to strengthening memory is learning, particularly learning things that, on the surface, look like things you couldn't give a hoot about. Repetitiveness will also help improve memory -- watch the move a couple of time, re-read a paragraph, talk about it out loud (with someone if you can) as this will reinforce the information.





Many experts believe that the caffeine in tea, as well as good-quality, high coca dark chocolate help memory retention -- both of these contain high levels of anti-oxidants that are good for the brain. Drink a cup of tea every morning (my mother always claimed that tea cured everything, and she was right).





Create images and word associations. Most people who learned 'HOMES' can rattle off the names of the great lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior...see that wasn't hard).





Use rhymes -- ';Red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky at morning, sailor's warning,'; and alliteration ';Silly Susie Sings Songs,';





Get a good night's sleep.





Supplements such as Omega 3 (fish -- brain food, remember?) and ginkgo help keep the brain healthy and active, and cut out all trans fats, as trans fat slow down brain activity and cut down blood flow, ergo oxygen, to the brain.





If you drink alcohol, cut down, as this kills those precious brain cells, and impedes memory retention.





Follow some or all of those principles, and you will see a vast improvement in your memory, and you will become a much more confident (and WAY less nervous) conversationalist.Any good advice, I am looking to increase my sharpness Please help!?
It won't happen overnight, but if you'll go to a Health Food Store and get American, Korean or Chinese Ginseng in capsules and take it every day, you will experience many positive effects over the course of time. One of them is increased sharpness and coordination.. Try it and give it time.
Play those memory card games they're fun and acctually work! :)
i have this problem, im trying to be more mentally active in a positive way just find it hard! , got a Nintendo ds with brain trainer thats making me more sharp if anything heh
If you have a DS or WII get one of those Brain trainer games, also, playing certain video games that make you constantly remember things will help.


Try to do something every day, like write a sentence on a piece of paper when u wake up, memorize it, and then leave it some where, and b4 u go to bed, find it, and repeat the sentence. This seriously helps, i did it, and if going from F's to A's in one semester. if that doesn't prove it, i don't know what does!
I've heard that if you do some puzzle books and that sort of thing helps.