How to Memorize Fast and Easily If you’d like to memorize 10 times faster this post will show easily you can improv...
How to Memorize Fast and Easily
If you’d like to memorize 10 times faster this post will
show easily you can improve.You remember information in two main ways – as
words, using your verbal memory, or as pictures, using your visual memory.
They’re different mental processes and they achieve
dramatically different results.People never believe how absolutely crazy the
difference is, so here’s a challenge for you and you can prove it for
yourself.First, let’s test your verbal memory.I’ll give you a list of ten words
and let’s see how many you’re able to remember.Here we go:Piano Elephant Truck
Bottle Basketball Chair Pineapple Dog Painting Trampoline Ok, pause the.
How’d you go? It was your verbal memory, now let’s test your
visual memory.I’ll give you another list of words, but this time, I’ll also
give a short story and draw a picture.To activate your visual memory, just
create a mental picture of everything I describe and draw.
a giant chicken lands
in the seat next to you.
It’s the size of a person, enormous and yellow.It must have
fallen out of the sky.Watermelon – The chicken opens the car door and leaps out
onto the road.As it stands there, an enormous green watermelon rolls over the
top of it and keeps rolling down the road.Barack Obama – You watch the
watermelon roll down the road and straight into Barack Obama.The watermelon
splits in half and Obama is left standing there, dripping in watermelon juice.
turns bright pink. Flagpole – Obama throws the poodle away, it
flies through the air and lands on the top of a tall flagpole.The weight of the
juicy poodle causes the flagpole to slowly topple over.Cake – With a loud and
messy ‘splat’ the flagpole falls into the middle of an enormous birthday
cake.Icing, cream and candles go flying everywhere, raining down on people
passing by.Doll – A large dollop of cream lands on the head of an over sized
Barbie doll.
Pizza – The doll rockets upwards and just as it starts to
fall, a large pizza explodes open above her head like a parachute.The pizza is
attached to the doll by long strings of melted cheese.Giraffe – The pizza
eventually lands on the ground, covering the doll, and a giraffe walks over and
starts eating the pizza, bending its long neck and stretching its tongue to lick
up the delicious cheese.Skateboard – After eating too much pizza, the giraffe
pulls out a skateboard, jump son it, and starts gliding down the street, ducking
signs and street lights as it rolls along.
Cigarette – The skateboard begins coughing, and it stops and
uses one of its wheels to light a cigarette.The cigarette becomes engulfed in
flames and the skateboard throws it away.Statue of Liberty – The flaming
cigarette flies through the air and lands on the torch being held aloft by the
Statue of Liberty.The torch bursts into flames too.Ice cream – The Statue of
Liberty comes alive and thrusts the burning torch deep in to a big bucket of ice
cream.It’s cherry chocolate ice cream that melts and starts to bubble
ominously.
Fireworks – The ice cream explodes into fireworks, lighting
up the sky above the Statue of Liberty with brightly colored fireworks forming
the words ‘The End’. Ok, pause the video again and write down how many words
you’re able to recall using your visual memory.The trick is to re-create a
picture in your mind of each image in the story.Did you see the difference?And
I did something sneaky, I gave you fifteen words, not ten, but the average
person would have been able to recall from ten up to all fifteen words, and
mostly in the correct order.Leave a comment below and let me know how your
verbal memory scored against your visual memory.
Visual memory techniques have been around for thousands of
years, but for some strange reason, most people only know verbal memory
techniques.Verbal techniques are things like acronyms and acrostics, word associations
and rhymes,and even songs, and they all need a serious chunk of boring
repetition.They can be fantastic for a small number of words, but they don’t
activate the amazing power of your visual memory.
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