Historically, the art of memory has been a valuable and necessary tool for change and innovation. However, with the passage of time and the development of technology, we gradually began to lose our natural memory skills. They were displaced by a wide variety of external methods for remembering information.

Moreover, such phenomena of our modern world as digitization and the Internet had a crucial impact on accelerating this process. We are used to having technical devices always ready, which causes weakness in our memory skills.

What associations did you have with the word "memorization" in school? Perhaps it was something related to the endless cramming for exams, after which you would quickly forget everything. Because of such a wrong approach, the school system presents memorization as durable and tough. However, this process can be both easy and entertaining.

Such techniques as Mind Mapping – an easy diagram for remembering complex ideas – have attempted to bring us back to using our internal memory. Unfortunately, the development of digitalization has not slowed down the pace. Thus, it plunges us even more into the concept of external memory.

Why is this issue so significant, and what can we do about it? The author traces the connection between our memory and creativity and points out how memory affects our perception of the world. The way we interact with the world and what we do in it results from what and how we keep it in our memory. In other words, our perception of the environment plays a crucial role in the development of our memory.