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☆ Take these 3 simple steps to improve your memory and rely less on Google: 'Use it or lose it'
  + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
"One of the things we know about the brain and memory is that 'use it or lose it' absolutely applies," she tells CNBC Make It. "If you tend to always rely on Google to remember a particular fact, for example, and don't 'use' your brain to remember it, your brain gets very good at not remembering it." If you tend to always rely on Google to remember a particular fact ... your brain gets very good at not remembering it. Here are three simple steps you can take to wean yourself of Google and improve your recall. "Even if this doesn't work at first, and you end up having to Google it anyway, you will slowly strengthen your memory pathways and improve your recall," she says.
Persons: I've, Cynthia Borja, Borja, It's, Bill Gates Organizations: CNBC, Google
☆ Relying too heavily on Google can lead you into this common mental trap, says decision-making expert
  + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
We've all Googled a question and taken the top link as fact, without digging any more into the credibility of the source. Relying too heavily on the search engine, though, can feed a common mental trap known as availability bias, says Cynthia Borja, a project leader at The Decision Lab, a think tank where researchers study how people make decisions. Availability bias is the tendency to think easily accessible information is the most factual information. But Google's algorithm sometimes shows users unreliable or even misleading news sources. "If you are not applying a really critical lens and making sure that you're checking more than one source, all you're doing is getting information that is biased from one perspective," Borja says.
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