Keep forgetting things? To improve your memory and recall, science says start taking notes (by hand)

When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.

The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent...