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Jim: Have you ever had information or some fact right on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't get it out? Successful people, leaders of their field, leaders of industry have facts and figures and ideas right at their mental fingertips. Whereas remembering names is about who you know, this session is all about recalling what you know.
Hi, this is Jim Kwik, founder of Kwik Learning and your memory coach for the Kwik Recall Master Class. Thank you so much for allowing me to be your memory coach. In this session I'm particularly excited about because it's all about how to memorize facts fast. Facts, data, information, ideas, how do you have it at your mental fingertips? That's what successful people do.
To advance your career, to be a leader in your industry, it takes knowledge, right? How do you have that information, that knowledge at your mental fingertips? We're going to give you two or three powerful tools to put in your memory toolbox, so your memory's superpowers could completely unleash during the session.
Get ready. Now, I'm going to give you a quick quiz. Do you know how many days are in the month of July? How about August, September, October, November? You're like, "Why would I need to know that?” Well, here is why, because the more connections you can make with your brain ... It's not about filling up your brain with information. That's useless. Actually, the more you could fill up, the more connections you can make.
There is this old myth, a lie that's been told that your brain is like a tea cup. Once it's full, you can't put anything else in it. That's not true about your memory. The more you put in, the more you could hold. You could go to the gym and you could see someone bench pressing all this weight. You're just like, "Wow! That person could bench press all that weight because they're really strong." No, they're really strong because they bent press all that weight on a regular basis.
Your memory is a lot the same way. With neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, you could grow older but you could grow better new connections. That's what this session is all about. Let's get to the tools. There is a lot of techniques. They call them mnemonic devices. We learn these things back in the school to be able to memorize facts. You could share these with your children, with your niece, and your nephew, and your grandchildren.
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A couple of quick tips, do you remember back in school, you have 12 months in the calendar year. One of the tricks was to ... I like these tricks that use your body also, this mnemonic devices, because it's kinesthetic learning. If you shake your hand like this, do this with me. Shake your hand, and just make a fist.
You notice, you have here four knuckles. You have these little grooves in between. This was a memory tip to be able to memorize what months actually had 31 days. You actually go this way. You go, "This is January." Imagine the first knuckle is January, and then in between that groove or that valley if you will, you have a peak here, this valley, here is February. Then you go, this one is March. This is your knuckle as March, and so on.
Then when you get to the end here, forget about your thumb. You go back here or you can continue here. Then this knuckle becomes August. It goes January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and then the next knuckle is August. Every single knuckle is actually 31 days. Every single valley or groove is actually 30 days with the exception of the first one, because we know February has 28 days.
That was a memory aid. When I've learned that back in school, I was like, "Wow! That's really cool. It's kinesthetic learning." I was thinking, "How else can I use my body to be able to memorize these things that I want to be able to learn?" I learned that early on with Math. It's interesting to work with your kids the times tables. A lot of people feel like the time table is all memorization.
In future session, I'm going to show you the concept of numbers. I'm going to show you an incredible tool on how to be able to memorize numbers whether it's a two-‐digit number, three-‐digit, four-‐digit, 20-‐digit, 50, 100 and more, to be able to memorize pie and go 3.1415926 and just go on and on and on. I'm going to share with you those secrets in the upcoming sessions. This is where we're really going to get started.
I'm very excited about that. Using your body for example if you want to learn multiplying tables and memorize them, one of the memory aid you do is for nine tables, you put all 10 fingers up, like this. If you wanted to know what anything times nine is, let's say it's 3X9. You would go one, two, three and then put your third finger down. That's two, seven, 27.
Then you would go, "What's 4x9?" You put your one, two, three, fourth finger down. That's 30, one, two, three, six on what's on the left and what's on the right. If you want to know what's 7x9 is, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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you put your seventh digit down. You have six on this side, 363. I was like, "Wow! You could use your body to be able to remember the things that you want to remember.”
I'm going to show you how to use your body list to be able to come up with different parts of your body to be able to store information that you want to. Let's say you have to go into a meeting, or you need to prepare for a test, it's like having cheat notes, because the notes are in your head or they're on your body.
If you're going into a meeting or a sales call or a negotiation, and you want to remember certain facts or a client information or a product information, you can actually store those facts, because that's what this session is all about, right on your body. I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. We're going to take 10 parts on your body together, you and I, 10 parts on your body.
What I want you to do is I want you to see it. I want you to say it, and I want you to do it. Those are your three learning styles, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. We all learn either by what we see, or by what we hear, and what we touch or feel. Let's do it together. I want to do it rather quickly. We're going to create 10 mental folders on our body, so you can store information that you want to see.
Here, let's start with this. Do this with me. Number one is top. Go like this, the top of your head. Do it with me. One is what? Say it out loud because this is your auditory memory, top. Two is nose. Good. Three is your mouth. Good. Four are your ears. Touch your ears. Five is your larynx. This is your voice box if you will, your larynx. That's one, two, three, four, five. Let's do it together.
One is what? Top. Two is nose. Three is mouth. Four is ears. Remember kinesthetic touch. Five is what? Larynx. Good. Six, I want you to go down to your shoulders. What's six? Shoulders. Seven is your clavicle, very good. That's your collarbone. Eight are your fingers. Your eight are your fingers. Nine is your belly. It's your belly. Finally, 10 is your sit. That's your bottom. Ten is your sit.
Let's go through all 10 really quickly. These are facts you need to memorize. One is what? Your top. Two is nose. Three is mouth. Four is ears. Five is larynx. Good. Six is shoulders. Seven is clavicle. Good. Eight are your fingers, nine, belly. Finally 10 is what? Your sit. One more time, let's do it together. If you don't get one of them, that's OK. This is memory training.
We're building your imagination, your focus, and your concentration. One is what? Your top. Two is your nose. Three is? Mouth. Good. Four? Ears. Five?
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Larynx. Six? Shoulders. Seven? Clavicle, good. Eight? Fingers. Nine? Belly. Ten? Your sit. Very good, congratulations! You're a superhero memory expert. Now, you have 10 places on your body.
I'm going to refer this to you as your body list if you will, because these are 10 places on your body. The good thing about it is you always carry your body with you. This is five folders. I'm going to show you ... Remember easy as pie if you went through our previous sessions, PIE? Your memory is easy as pie. P is place. I is imagine. E is entwined. P is place. I is what? Imagine. E is entwined.
You have your places, 10 new places on your body, that you could imagine the facts that you want to remember, and then entwine that right into place, so here, here, here. When I say, "I want you to put this in your first place, this in your second place, this in your third place," that's what you're doing. By the way, if you've ever seen somebody ...
We're going to talk about how to give speeches and presentations without notes. We're going to go deep in that. If you have heard someone say, “In the first, place that, and in second, place that,” that's what they did. About over 2,000 years ago, a memory technique was created. People used that memory tech to store information. This is before the printing press, before computers, and iPads, and teleprompters, memory aids that help people to communicate and remember information.
This is what they did to be able to memorize it. That technique disappeared, but we're bringing it back. We're going to bring the art of memory. You're going to be in the top 1% of the people that you know in terms of your memory power just knowing this technique. Let's do it. Ten places on your body, now, let's say you need to remember facts. Let's start really basic.
Let's say you need to memorize food. Let's say that somebody calls you up and they say, "Can you please go pick this up? We're having this party today, and I forgot to go to the grocery store. Can you please stop by and do that?" Usually, when people call you up, you don't have something to write on, because you’re answering the phone in the car or you’re in the shower.
I don't know why you would answer the phone in the shower, but people give you information and you're like, "How do I remember this?" You put it on your body. Let's do this together really quickly. After we do this, I'm going to show you how to apply this towards things like Science. I'm going to show you how to
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apply this towards things like names and how to memorize things like the presidents, and think of more difficult information.
Let's do it together. Let's say the first thing you need to buy at the party is something like chocolate cake, gluten-‐free organic chocolate cake. Remember that. I want you to take that. Remember PIE? Place, the place is your top. I want you to imagine chocolate cake, and entwine it on the place. Put chocolate cake all over the top of your head. Just imagine it there.
Remember the [glue 00:09:47] that does this. We're doing this because the four aspects of your training is not only the technique. This is the technique I'm giving you, this body list. It's not just that. It's also the toughness. Doing this exercise even if you don't use the technique is going to build your memory reserves. It's going to build your memory powers. It's going to build your memory strength because it forces you to focus, to observe, to concentrate, to build your creativity, your right brain.
If you're in a brain measuring device, you would see different parts of your brain light up, your visualization, your imagination, all of those different things. This is the exercise that builds the second T, which is toughness. Remember the third T is the theory, which I gave you a little bit of the theory, left brain, right brain, and so on in terms of why it works.
Finally the fourth part is the team. It's the collaborative effort between me and with you, me as your memory coach and everyone in this community by posting your comments down below, and your questions, and sharing your knowledge. I encourage to actually share your tips and share your notes down below, so other people can benefit. Remember, when you teach something, you get to learn it twice.
Chocolate cake all over the top of your head, and remember what makes it stick, the vowels A, E, I, O, U. Make it action. Add action. The E is, make it exaggerate a really big chocolate cake. Add some emotion in there also. The I is make it illogical. You would never balance chocolate cake on the top of your head, but make it illogical. Make it outstanding. Make it stand out if you will. Finally u is unusual. Make it a little bit weird.
Look at it. Feel it. Smell it, very sensory. The second thing you need to get is let's say you need to get red wine. I want to see red wine on your second place, which is what? Your nose, so red wine coming out of your nose. Just perfect! Here is
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the thing. You don't have to do a lot of rote or repetition. You just see it once, and you remember it for a long time.
The third thing you need to see, where's your third place? Good, it's your mouth. The third place is your mouth. You need to get asparagus, because that's a really great party. Asparagus all over. Imagine your teeth is replaced by asparagus right now, good asparagus. See that there, good.
Where is your fourth place, remember? It's your ears. The fourth thing you need to get are potato chips. I want you to see potato chips coming out of your ears. Look at your ears. Imagine your ears, and they're made of potato chips, very good. After that, the fifth thing that you need to buy ... Just look at your fifth place, which is your what? Your larynx, which is your voice box, just point to your throat.
I want you to be able to get what? A green juice, what's green juice? I don't know. Green juice right into your throat. Maybe you have necklace here made of broccoli or celery or cucumber juice, a necklace made up with all these different kind of juices. You're like, "Wow! This is an interesting party, a very, very interesting party."
After that, your sixth place is what? Your shoulders, good. I want you to remember pineapples. Pineapples are where? Balancing on your shoulders, a big pineapple is balancing on your shoulders. The seventh thing that you need to remember that your friend says, "Go pick this up," is ... Remember seven is your what? Your clavicle. I want you to remember cheese. I want you to just imagine cheese all over your clavicle, all the different kinds of cheese.
What kind of cheese are you thinking? Great, and smell it. Taste it. Cheese all over your clavicle, very good. After that, your eighth place is what? Your fingers. Remember your fingers. I want you to imagine that you need to remember mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes for the party. Imagine you're dunking your fingers in mashed potatoes. There's gravy and you could feel it and taste it, mashed potatoes.
Finally, number nine and 10, what's number nine? It's your belly. Your ninth place is your belly. I want you to remember ... What's the ninth place? Just think of something that you need to be able to get. LJ, what's the ninth thing you need to buy? Anything, salsa, the ninth thing is salsa, salsa all over your belly.
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Maybe it's mild, or it's medium, or it's spicy. It's really hot. Salsa all over your belly, that's number nine. Finally, 10 is your what? It's your sit here. 10, I want you to remember you need to buy some milk. I don't even want to know what's your picture for number 10. Number 10 is on your sit. Just imagine it right there.
Now, you're at the grocery store. These are 10 facts that you just memorized in lighting speed. Your memory is that fast in a heartbeat. You're in the grocery store, and you need to remember. You don't have your list. Most people, even if they make their list and they make it out and triplicate, they forget their list back at home.
You don't need that list because you're a memory superhero. You're in the grocery store. You're going down the aisles. You're just walking through your body. What's the very first thing you need to buy? Go to your top of your head is what? Chocolate cake, very good. What's the second thing that you need to buy? What's this? Red wine coming out of your what? Your nose.
What's the third thing you need to buy? Asparagus on your teeth, good. What's the fourth thing, which is your what? Your ears. What's coming out of your ears? Potato chips. What's the fifth thing? Your larynx, what's here? What do you have a necklace of? Do you remember what that is? Good. What's the sixth thing? Good, shoulders. What's balancing on your shoulders? Do you see that? Do you feel it? Pineapples, good.
What's the seventh thing on your collar? What's here? It's not the necklace. That was something else. What's here? Good, the cheese. Then the eight thing is what? What's on your fingers? Mashed potatoes. The ninth thing is what? It's right there on your belly. Do you see what's on your belly? Very good, the salsa. Finally the tenth thing that you need buy at the store is what? Milk. Tenth is your sit, milk all over your sit.
Now that you have this body list, that's yours. You could always use it over and over again. I want you to practice this, because we're going to use this in future sessions. When I go through how to memorize numbers, when I go through techniques to be able to memorize facts and figures, I want you to be able to use this because it's like another peg list.
In the previous session, we went through things like your sun list. We went through sun. We went through socks. We went through what else? We went through your traffic light. We went through your car. We went through your
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glove. Remember that list. We're going to use that. In fact, we're going to use it now. We're going to go through it now that you have the body list.
Let's repeat the sun list. Do you remember the sun list? That's go through it together. I'm going to show you how to use it and how to be able to store facts right now. Number one is what? Sun. You might have come up with ... I know we'd answered this in the coaching call. You can absolutely create your own list. Let's go through the list that we created together. Then you could adjust it according to yours.
Number one is what? Sun. Number two? Socks, some people use shoes. Number three is what? Traffic light. Number four? Remember three is traffic lights because of the three colors on a traffic light. Which colors are they? A lot of people forget this, red, yellow, and green in that specific order. That's traffic light.
Number four was what? Car. What was number five? Glove, because of five fingers, good. After that is what? Six is soda, like a six-‐pack. Number seven is what? What's seven? Rainbow, seven colors of the rainbow. What are they? ROYGBIV, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, ROYGBIV. Number eight is what? Magic ball eight, the magic eighth ball.
Number nine is what? By the way, you could use an octopus or anything that reminds you of eight. Number nine is what? Cat, because of nine lives. Ten is what? Ten toes, you have 10 toes. You could also use what? You could use 10 bowling pins, whatever you use personally. Let's stop there.
Now, let's apply. That's another peg list that we use, another filing system. Let's say that you want to be able to memorize something like names. These are the facts that you want to memorize. Let's say that you want to be able to specifically memorize the presidents of the United States. You want to go through them all in order, and so all the way from George Washington to President Obama.
Let's do the first 10 or 20 together. All you need to do to memorize that is you need ... Remember, we talked about the peg method. That was one of the things that we talked about in previous sessions. Now that you have this body list, you also have the peg method, and so we took the sun list. We attached information that you want to learn on it.
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Last time, I believe we went through the Bill of Rights, and how to memorize the Bill of Rights, like a speech without notes on your sun list. Now, what I want to do is I want to apply every single president on there. Now, this is a really good exercise for using last names. If you haven't gone through the session that's coming up yet on remembering names, I'm going to show you how to memorize first and last names.
This is going to be focused on last names. We're going to deal with presidential last names. Who is the first president of the United States? It's Washington. People say, "I know the first ..." Yes, you could do it for that one, but let's try to do 20, 30, or 40 or more presidents. Then it gets very difficult. It's very difficult to do a rote memory when it's dealing with more than one or two or three or four, five.
Washington is the first one. What I want you to do is turn it into a picture. You take Washington. You turn it into a picture. Remember the easiest PIE method. You put it onto place. What's the place? It's your what? It's your sun. Look at the sun in your mind. I want you to put Washington. What reminds you of Washington? What's an image?
If we are playing Pictionary together and the ultimate tip turn into a picture, once it turn it into a picture, what can I draw that would remind you of Washington? Maybe the Washington monument. Imagine the Washington monument on the sun. Put it on the sun using action and exaggeration and emotion. Make it illogical and such. Good. What else [inaudible 00:19:42] for Washington? Maybe a washing machine if you will.
Imagine washing machine. You're washing the sun in the machine, Washington. Washing a ton of suns inside, whatever you choose. Some people would choose a dollar-‐bill because George Washington is on the $1-‐bill. Imagine lots of dollar bills on the sun. Whatever you come up with, remember there is no such thing as a right and wrong, because what works for me or what works with your fellow superheroes might not work for you.
Find out what works best for you, because it's not right or wrong. It's just good, better, and best. Whatever you come up with is better than anything we could come up with. Just imagine that. Here is the thing. We covered this on the call. You can't just say it. You need to see it. Let me say that again. You can't just say it. Don't say, "Oh yeah, I'll remember that." Just by saying it, you won't remember it.
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You have to be able to see it. If you can't see it, you won't remember it. If you can't see it and feel it ... That's what I do. I ask myself two questions each time. When I want to memorize something, I'd say, "What do I see, and how does it make me feel? If you want to get inside my mind, I'm looking at something. I want to learn something brand new. I was like, "What do I see, and how does it make me feel?"
In order to learn something, the all learning is and all memory is is taking something on the outside, and connecting it to something on the inside. It's connecting something that's unknown. When you're learning something brand new, it's unknown. You don't know what it is. It's on the outside of you, and you're linking it to something you know.
You're just taking an unknown, and connecting it to something that's known, and then you have a memory. That's what a memory is. It's a new association that wasn't there before. Let's say you have the sun list in your mind. If you want to learn this new information called Washington, put the Washington or washing machine, Washington monument, a dollar-‐bill on the sun.
You're hanging it on that peg. Number two, the second place is what on your list? Was it shoes? It was shoes or socks, depending on what you used. It could have been anything else that you're using. Let's say it's socks. Second president was who? Adams. If you need to turn something into a picture, I say Adams. What do you think of? Free associations, stream of consciousness, I say Adams. You think of what?
Samuel Adams, like Adams beer, imagine putting that Samuel Adams' beer all in your shoes or your socks. Imagine that. I say Adams, you think of what? You’re your Adams, imagine you're looking at your socks and it's made of lots of Adams, but see it there. Look at the Adams. What else? I say Adams, you think of what? An adding machine, imagine that a calculator or something to add something right in your shoes.
Whatever associations you come up with is the right thing. Again, whatever associations you come up with is the right thing. Let's say you think of the Adams Family, the old television show. Imagine them wearing all kinds of socks, and that's the only thing they're wearing. That's what you're imagining. Two is Adams.
The third president, now go to the third place on your sun list is what? Traffic light. The third president of the United States is who? Jefferson, so if I say
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Jefferson, what do you think of? You can either think of Jefferson, something that remind you of Jefferson, like the Declaration of Independence, something that reminds you of it, or remember if something doesn't remind you, it's always one of two things.
Either it's something that reminds you of it that you can picture, or it's something that sounds like. Remember in Pictionary, if you're not sure what it is, you draw an ear and it says like, "It sounds like that." Let's use this as an example, Jefferson. For me, I'm thinking about some of the Jeffersons, the television show, which I grew up watching. Jefferson, then I'll put that traffic light, or I would say something that sounds like it.
Jeff sounds like chef. By the way, when I'm memorizing people's names, I ever meet someone named Jeff, I just think chef. I put a chef's hat on, so I think Jefferson, Jeff and his son. I have a friend named Jeff and his son. I see them playing on the traffic light. I see my friend Jeff hanging from the traffic light, and his son's down below it ready to catch him.
Not that that would ever happen. It's illogical. It's outstanding. It's a little weird, unusual. That's why I remember it. We don't remember the things that are mundane. That's really the secret to quick recall. It's about taking the ordinary things on the outside, a name, a formula, a president, a speech, a foreign language, something you need to do, something that's ordinary and representing it and making it extraordinary inside our minds.
That's the magic. Recently, we did an event for superhero you. We had someone in the audience. We had Don Miguel Ruiz, who wrote the Four Agreements, a seven-‐year, eight-‐year New York Times bestselling book. The Four Agreements' a great book to pick up if you haven't read this book. Four Agreements' amazing. I asked him afterwards, "What's your superpower?"
He says, "Jim, my superpower is the same as your superpower, which is the same as everyone's superpower. It's our superpower of imagination." Remember, imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Einstein said that, because knowledge is what is. Imagination is what can be. Its potential. Your mind doesn't know the difference between something you vividly imagine and something that's real. Imagine it. Jefferson and traffic lights, see that. Remember, don't say it. See it.
Now, who is the fourth president? Let's go to your fourth place. What's your fourth place? It's car. The fourth president is who if you remember this?
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Madison, President Madison, now James Madison. Turn Madison into a picture. If we were playing Pictionary, what would you need to draw to remember Madison? If I say Madison, what do you remember?
Madison Square Garden, maybe New York City, Madison Avenue, or maybe if it's not something that reminds you of, maybe it's something that sounds like. What sounds like Madison? For me, if someone says, "Who is the fourth president?" I'm not really sure, but then I think of medicine, medicine would remind me of Madison, because it's close enough.
Just like when you're forgetting someone's name, and you think of, "Oh, here is a hint. It starts with an S. Oh, it's sally." The S reminds you, because that's how your memory works, that association. One letter could trigger and remind you of the entire fact or the name in this case. Let's say it's medicine. You think of medicine, and you think of the fourth place, which is what? Car, you open up your car. What comes out? Lots of pills, lots of medicine, all kinds of [inaudible 00:26:12], everything that you take if you're sick, medicine.
If you're not using medicine to remind you of Madison, what can you use? Let's say it's Madison Square Garden. You're going to Madison Square Garden, a big sports arena. What's going on down on the court there? Lots of cars, you see all your cars there, and that reminds you of Madison. That's number four.
Now five, go to your fifth place. What's your fifth place? One, two, three, four, five, what's your image on your peg list, on your sun list if you will? It's your glove, because five fingers into your glove. Five is Monroe. If I say that's President Monroe, that's a fact. This session is all about memorizing facts. Fifth president is President Monroe. What reminds you of Monroe?
Marilyn Monroe, right? If you think of Marilyn Monroe, associate that to the glove. Imagine Marilyn Monroe wearing your gloves. Make it a very specific glove. Maybe it's like Michael Jackson's glove or some gloves that you're very familiar to, that you're more likely to remember. That's glove. Now if nothing comes to mind for Monroe, then you think of something that sounds like.
By the way, it takes a lot more time to explain it than it does to actually do it. It takes more time to explain it than it actually takes to do it. Just see it in a heartbeat. Monroe, it could be a sound like. What sounds like Monroe? For me, it sounds like man rowing. If I didn't know who the president was, and I was like, "Oh, it sounds like man rowing." I was like, "Oh, Monroe." That's enough association.
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Here, this is what you ought to remember. These are means to an end. These techniques are a means to an end, because here's the thing. There's three parts to your memory. There is an encoding process for informations going in. There's a storing process. We're putting in that vault of your mind, your bank vault [inaudible 00:28:01], and your memory bank, and this is pulling it out, which is retrieving, so three parts.
Encoding it. Storing it, and then retrieving it. The challenge though is when the information is in your sensory or your working memory, your short-‐term memory, you only have about five six, seven seconds to do something with that information before it's gone. I call it the six seconds syndrome. People give you their name, or they give you their phone number, and you're like, "Oh no."
You have six seconds to do something. That's when you use the technique. When you use the technique to be able to memorize something, it gets you to focus on it. Even when it doesn't work, it still works because you're focusing on what you want to remember. That observation will help you.
Remember when we talked about motivation and observation mechanics? That's why these techniques work. Even when it doesn't work, it still tends to work. Here is the thing. Once you know that it's Washington, and Adams, and Jefferson, and Madison, and Monroe, those are the presidents, and you know them all in order, then the pictures disappear, because they're a means to an end.
Remember, the end is to remember the fact. The means are these techniques that I'm teaching you to be able to store the information quicker, instead of the old way which is just repetition over and over and over each group. Repeat something 50 times, and then forget it the next day, plus taking something and repeating it 50 times is going to take up a lot of time.
Remember, Monroe for this one is what? Number what? Five. Remember you have a picture there, a man rowing wearing your gloves, Monroe. Sixth president, who is the sixth president? It's who? What's your sixth place first of all? Sixth place is what? Soda, good because of the six-‐pack. Remember the six-‐pack of soda? If there's anything that represents six for you, it could be a die, like a dice and stuff like that, whatever works for you.
Some people use a gun for a six-‐shooter, whatever you like. Let's take soda in this example. Some people will use beer, but whatever you use. Let's say soda, and the sixth president is Adams. It's also Adams. Go back, Adams what? You're
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thinking like, "Oh, it's Sam Adams' beer again." If that's what reminds you, we'll think of that. Sure, you could do beer, Sam Adams' beer sharing with what? Soda, and just make it ...
Here is the thing. Don't make it logical. Don't just look at a counter there, and just see Sam Adams's beer and some soda. That's not very memorable. Do something with it. Maybe mix them together. Drink it yourself, eww gross, and then feel it. Taste it. That's what's going to make it memorable for you.
People is like, "That's so childish. This is what children do to learn stuff." How fast are your children in terms of their learning? How great is their memory? Really, really fast, number six is Adams. The seventh president, now go to your seventh place. What's your seventh place? It's rainbow. Why? Seven colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV, red, orange, yellow, so on.
The seventh president of the United States is Jackson, President Andrew Jackson. How do you remember that? If I say Jackson and we're playing Pictionary, how are you going to recall it? What reminds you of Jackson? Maybe Michael Jackson, so imagine Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk or dancing on the rainbow. Imagine that. Do you see it? Imagine Michael Jackson dressed up in clothing, and it's all rainbow color.
If an image doesn't come up when I say Jackson, then what do you do? You just think of a sound-‐like. Jack and his son, so think of someone known as Jack, and then think of Jack and his son, and there's rainbows everywhere. That's the seventh president. I want to go through this rather quickly, the rest of these.
Number eight, what's your place? What's on your sun list? Number eight is what? Let's do it together. Say it out loud. It was either octopus or your magic eight ball. The magic eight ball is like the eight ball when you're playing pool. The magic eight ball is the one that you shake up, and then you ask it a silly question and it says, "Yes in fact that will happen or no, not in your wildest dreams," that kind of thing, the magic eight ball.
The eighth president is Van Buren. This is a little bit more difficult. When I think of Van Buren, no images come to mind that remind me of what Van Buren is or who he is, or what he's done, so for me, I would think of a sound-‐like. Van Buren, if you need to know who the eighth president was, what would need to sound like it in order for you to remember it, that makes it memorable for you.
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Van Buren for me is a van. A van alone would probably remind you it, or a van that's burning. Imagine eighth ball, and you're looking at your eighth ball. You're looking at it. It's going to tell the future, and say if you look at it, and all of a sudden, you see a van burning or a van with a big bureau at the end, like you're moving a bureau in the back of a van and it's burning.
You have this image in there. That's your magic eighth ball. If you're using an octopus, imagine octopus wrapped around a van that's burning. Whatever eight is for you, remember that. Finally, nine and 10, what's your place? What's the ninth place on your sun list is what? Cat, it's cat. The ninth president is Harrison. How do you remember that? How do you remember that the ninth president is Harrison?
If I say Harrison, what do you think of? You think of a place. Maybe you know a street named Harrison, a town named Harrison. I think of Harry and his son, whatever. That's how a lot of last names were actually created. When you're thinking of Johnson, this is Jack and his son, whenever son is in there, so Harrison.
I think of, what, somebody, Harry and his son, Harry son, and that's what I remember. Now, the number nine place is what? On your sun list, nine is what? Cat because nine lives, cat. I just see a cat and his Harry son. Cat, Harry son, I remember the ninth president is Harrison. Now remember, when I need to remember the presidents because I've rehearsed it a few times and went through space repetition. Remember space repetition is you rehearse something.
If you wanted to go from your short-‐term memory more to your long-‐term memory, you space out your rehearsal or your review. One hour later, one day later, one week later, one month later, and it's yours. You should be able to memorize all of these presidents in a matter of just a few days, for the repetition, space repetition maybe through a week or so.
Ninth president is Harrison. Think of the cat for nine, and it's Harry son. Finally, let's just stop at 10. Number 10, what's 10 on your list, your sun list? Ten is what? Toes, because you have 10 toes. Maybe that was your basic association, the very first tool that we learned in this system through the Master Class series.
Now, who is the president? The 10th president is who? President Tyler. If I say Tyler, what comes to mind? For me, it's just tiles. Imagine looking down, and you're laying down the kitchen tiles. Maybe there is somebody there, and there
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are tile there. They are putting down tiles. Maybe they put it right on your, what, toe, and you see it. Worst of all, you feel it, Tyler on your toe. That's number 10.
Now, feel it. Say it. Hear it. Now, let's test. How many of these do you remember? I want you to go through in order the presidents of the United States one to 10. If you could do one to 10, you could do 11 through 20 or 20 through 30 if you've built that to your sun list that far.
What's number one? You go through your sun. You see what? Washington, good. What's number two? Go to your second place. It's what? What's your second place? Your socks, and what was there? Adams, good. Number three, go to your traffic light. What's there? What's number three? Say it out loud, Jefferson. By the way, you are your best memory coach. I'm here to help you facilitate, but you should know now why you forget things.
If certain memories aren't coming back to you, don't leave it off like, "Oh, there's something in this magic box," and you're not sure why it is. You know why it is. Did you see it? Did you say it? Did you do it? Did you add action, exaggeration? Did you make it illogical? That's what's going to make you remember. That's what's going to make you remember these things.
Three is what? Jefferson. Go to your fourth place. What's your fourth place? It's what? Car. What's going on in your car? There's lots of what? Medicine or you're at Madison Square Garden. Who is the president? Madison, very good. Number five, go to your fifth place. It's what? It's your glove. Who is wearing your glove? Marilyn Monroe, so who is the fifth president? Monroe, good.
Go to your sixth place. Who is the sixth? What are we using for six? Soda, was that number six for you on your sun list? We're you cheering on with Sam Adams? Adams' beer remind you of Adams. You have it, President Adams. Number seven, what's number seven on your list? Rainbow, good, and who is dancing on the rainbow and singing on the rainbow? Michael Jackson. Who is the president? Jackson.
Number eight, go to eight. What's your picture for eight? Was it octopus? Was it magic eighth ball? What was it? What was the octopus or the magic eighth ball doing? It was on a van. What's going on with the van? It had a bureau, or it was burning. Who is the president? The eighth president is Van Buren.
Finally nine and 10, ninth on your sun list is what? Cat. What was the cats doing? The cats were there, but they are with their what? Hairy son. Who is the ninth
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president? Harrison. Finally number 10, what's on your 10 on your sun list, on your peg list is what? Toes, and what happened to your toes? You got tiles on them. The tiler was doing. Who is the 10th president? President Tyler.
Congratulations! You went through. We did memorize it the first time. By the way, it takes a lot more time to explain it than it actually takes to do it. You could go through 11. You could go through 12. You could go to 13. You go to 14, and 15, and grants on. Keep on going throughout all of them. That's your gift.
One of the assignments I'm going to ask you to do is as you're building out your sun list, and you already have something from 11 to 20, just practice doing the next presidents from 11 all the way to 20, 11 to 20 presidents of the United States. That's a really good exercise for what's coming up in terms of remembering names. Practice turning last names into pictures and images.
Right now, we've gone through so far for facts. We went through. We went through the different mnemonic devices. Remember we talked about different ways of using your body. We created terms of the calendars. We talked about using your body for the nine tables, but also that was preface for remembering your body list. What was number one? What did you buy at the grocery store? Number one was what? Chocolate cake.
What was number two? Red wine. What was number three, number four? What was coming out of your teeth? What was coming out of your ears? What was coming out of your larynx? See how that memory works? It's still there even 15 or 20 minutes later, because you learned it correctly. Your question might be, "Can I use my body list every single time?" Absolutely, every single day, you could use your body list over again. You'll finally remember this list today, and you remember yesterday's list.
Try it yourself. If you need to, you can go through and scrub your list. You can go through your body. If you don't need to remember it long-‐term, just go. Imagine you're going taking a shower, and you have your soap and your shampoo. Get rid of the chocolate cake. Get rid of the red wine. Get rid of the asparagus. Get rid of the salsa around your stomach, and then clean it out for yourself if you like to be able to do that using the pleasure of your imagination.
Now, that being said, I'm going to teach you another tool for your memory toolbox. We’re going to go through this rather quickly. What it is is your memory a lot works based on associations and reminders. There's a process where it links
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automatically together. Remember, I mentioned that all memory is linking something you don't know to something you already know.
What we're going to do here is create that links of a chain. If I say dog, you think what? Cat. If I say cat, you think mouse. I say mouse. You think cheese. I say cheese. You think Swiss. I say Swiss. You think Alps. I say Alps. You think skiing. It just keeps on going on and on and on, because they're links of a chain.
What I want you to do is I want to give you a list of words, random words. I want you to do the best you can to be able to memorize this list. If you've seen me on stage, memorize 10 or 20 or 30 or 100 different words in and out of order, then this is one of those secrets on how to do it.
I'm going to start out just for time sake just giving you 10, because if you can do 10, you can do 20. You can do 20. You can do 30 or 40. Inch by inch, it's the cinch. Yard by yard, it's too hard. Inch by inch, it's the cinch. Yard by yard, too hard. Remember, a journey of a thousand miles starts with only, what, one step.
Let's go through the steps. I'm going to give you 10 words really quickly, and you're going to do the best you can to memorize them. I would say go do what you normally do, because this is going to be very discovery. I think actually a lot of learning is a discovery process. It's not just consuming new facts. It's you coming to conclusion like, "This is what it is." There's a Socratic method of asking questions, and coming up with your own answers.
Here are the 10 words I want you to memorize. These are the 10 words. I want you to remember this, water bottle, balloon, batteries, barrel, board like a surfboard, diamond, knight rider, ox, toothpaste, sign. [Inaudible 00:41:53] memorize these 10 words too. Now, do the best you can to memorize these words. Write them down now. Take a few minutes. Write them down. What are these 10 words?
Write as many as you remember. It’s stuck on one; go to the next one, ideally in order. Very good. Now, let's go through as many of these you could remember. Number one was what? Water bottle. After that? Balloon. After balloon? Batteries. After batteries? Barrel. After barrel? Board. After board? Diamond. After diamond? Knight rider. After knight rider? Ox. After Ox? Toothpaste. After toothpaste? Sign.
How did we do? Put it down below. I want to know how you did. Now, I'm going to teach you the technique. I'm going to take ... I want you to tell me ... In fact,
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let's switch this. Now, you are the memory expert. Tell me the words that you remember. Tell me why. Write it down below. Which words did you remember out of those 10?
Here is the thing. Memory, it always leaves clues. It's not random that you memorized some of these words and the other ones you didn't. Why did you remember certain words? Which words did you remember? Tell me why. Some of the answers that we'll get, it would be, "I remembered water bottle." Why would you remember water bottle? Because it was first. It was first, right?
We tend to remember things that are first. What else? What did you remember? Sign, a lot of people remember sign because it was the last. Here is the phenomenon. You tend to remember things first and you tend to memorize things last. In Science, they call it primacy and recency. Primacy, prime, first when you remember things in the beginning. Recency is you tend to remember things last or more recent.
What's primacy, recency? It's like if you go to a party and you meet 20 strangers, primacy says you'll probably remember the people in the beginning of the party, and the people you say goodbye to at the end. That's primacy and recency. What else? If I gave you a list of 20 words or 30 words, primacy says you'll remember the words in the beginning, and then you remember the words at the end, most recent.
What other words did you remember on that list? Some people say, "I remember the B's. I remembered the things where I went from balloons and battery and barrel and board," because there is four Bs. You’re like, "There's a pattern there. There was an organization there. There was certain levels." Some people call it chunking, chunking and putting some order to something.
Do you tend to remember things that are organized? Of course, you do. If I gave you a list of 20 words, you might remember five, six, or seven of those words, but if I said beforehand, "OK, there is five .. Let me give you 20 words, but these words are going to be colors. These words are going to be state capitals. These words are going to be presidents. These words are going to be fruits," you're more likely to remember more of them because you have an organized way of storing information, to filing them away.
You memorized the first of the four B's. What other words did you tend to remember on this list? Tell me down below. Maybe you remembered toothpaste. Why would you remember toothpaste? Maybe because you brushed
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your teeth today, and it's very familiar for you. You're thinking, "OK, do you tend to remember things that are familiar?" Yes, that's a principle of recall.
What we're doing here is we're extracting the elements of recall out of something. I organically gave you 10 words to memorize, and then all of a sudden, you memorized three, four, five, or six, or seven of them. They're like, "Why did you remember it?" Because there are certain phenomenon, certain memory elements, principles of recall that were there.
I want you to get sensitized what those things are, so you could apply that towards the things you want to remember in the future. It's not magic that you remembered these memory things. It's actually a method that you're doing consciously or unconsciously. What other tends did you tend to remember? Knight rider, do you know what a knight rider is?
Yes, you remembered. It's that black car. [Remember you have a kit 00:46:16], and you have Michael Knight with David Hasselhoff, and that car Knight Rider. You might remember that. Why? Because it's outstanding, because it's a little unusual. It’s a little weird because it stands out from all the other words. That's the principle of recall.
If you go to a party and meet 20 strangers, and there's one person that's really bizarre and stands out, you're more likely to remember him or her because it's unusual. Write that down. That's a principle of recall. You have primacy. You have recency. You have pattern and organization. You have familiarity as a recall principle.
You also have things that are weird or outstanding, that are different and unique like Knight Rider. What other words do you tend to remember? Some people will remember diamond. Why would some people remember diamond? Because there is an emotion connected to diamond, an emotion. Do we tend to remember things that are emotional? Of course, things that have interest to us, things that are valuable to us, we tend to remember.
Just like you tend to go to a party if you meet somebody that let's say you're motivated to remember, that you have interest in, maybe you're interested in romantically or maybe they could be in some kind of sale or some kind of deal being made. There's motivation. There is interest. There is value that's there. You're more likely to remember their name. You're motivated to do it.
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What other words do you tend to remember out of that list? You went through the B's. You went through Knight Rider. You tend to go through what else? Ox, maybe some people remember ox because you associated ox to toothpaste. Maybe you made a visual representation or you pictured the ox, that's why you remember it. Visualization or imagination is an element to recall.
Perfect! These are the different elements. You have them written down, imagination, visualization, association, primacy and recency, emotion, familiarity. You have things like making things outstanding, and weird, and illogical. All of those are principles to recall. In the future moving forward, for everything that I want you to remember, whether it's decks of cards or just remembering jokes or remembering foreign languages, I want you to use more of these elements.
These are elements that you told me will help you to remember things. Now, let's apply those elements towards the words that you forgot. My hypothesis is that you probably forgot certain words. Let's say it's two, three, four, or five words, you didn't visualize it. You didn't associate it. You had no emotional impact. It was not first, last. It was not organized, all those different things.
Let's use the technique here. It's called chain linking. This technique is called chain linking. Remember we went dog, and we went cat. We went mouse. We went cheese. Those are links of a chain. What I want you to do with the technique is taking of things, the facts because that's what this session is all about, and turning each one into a picture, and linking them like links in a chain.
Let's do this together. Take a deep breath. Exhale, and it's safe to do so. You're not operating heavy machinery. You're not driving. I want you to close your eyes and breathe normally. Now, we're going to make a little story. This is the chain linking story method. With your eyes closed, I want you to imagine a water bottle.
If you've done this with me before, let's do it again, because we're on the road to mastery. We're not about doubling. Doubling is not the course here. This is not the doubling class. This is the memory master class. Masters get really great at the fundamentals. They get really good at the fundamentals, the basics.
Hear what we're doing. Close your eyes. I want you to imagine a water bottle. Imagine a water bottle now. I want you to see it. Feel it. Maybe even taste it. Notice the size of it. Notice the brand. What brand of water is it? Say it out loud, whatever you just said. Perfect! Say it out loud. Remember the active part.
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We're going to apply some of these techniques. We're going to use action, imagination, association, making emotion. I want you to imagine tied to it right now. Tied to it is a gigantic helium balloon. Look at the helium balloon. It's so large. It's carrying it up to the sky.
I want you to see the color of the balloon. Even if you can imagine it, remember this is a training in mental toughness, memory toughness. Even if you can't imagine it, imagine that you can imagine it. Imagine that's there. What color is it? What's that feel like? See it. Say it. Feel it. What is the smell like? Imagine it's carrying the water bottle up.
Imagine from the sky comes a barrage of batteries. Lots of different batteries are coming flying through, and they popped the balloon. They popped the balloon. Look at the batteries. Are they double-‐A batteries, triple A batteries, C batteries, D batteries, car batteries?
What brand of batteries? Say it out loud. What brand of batteries is it? Perfect! Whatever you just said, that's what batteries. You're like, "Where do the batteries come from?" I want you to imagine that it came from a gigantic wooden barrel. You're like, "You see the barrel." See what it's made of. See the size of it. See the color of it. See how old or new it is. Good.
Inside the barrel, on the side of the barrel, there's a surfboard. It's a board, surfboard on the side of the barrel. When you see the board, see what it's made out of. See the colors of the board. There is no right or wrong, because this is exercising creativity. If you're really left-‐brain, logical, this is an exercise in relating up your right brain, creativity, your imagination, your visualization.
Rolling down the surfboard, the board, is a gigantic diamond, not like a one or two karat diamond. It is a 64 karat diamond rolling down the board. It falls off the board, and it lands right through the sun roof of Knight Rider, that black sports car, right in Knight Rider. Knight Rider goes off, and it parallel parks right behind an ox between two oxen.
Ox in front, ox in the back, parallel parks. You're looking at the oxen. Something's really strange. It smells. It smells out of its mouth, and you go to brush the ox's teeth. You use toothpaste. Remember toothpaste. That's the ninth thing you need to remember, toothpaste. I want you to look at the toothpaste. [Inaudible 00:52:09] yourself brushing that ox's teeth. Smell what that smells like, and notice what brand of toothpaste it is. Say it out loud. What brand is it? Brand, good.
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Then after the toothpaste is done, it squirts all over this gigantic neon sign. I want you to see on the sign, it says, "Congratulations!" Congratulations all over the sign. There's a big explosion of congratulations on the neon sign. Now, with your eyes closed, I want you a memory expert to go through and go through a water bottle all the way to sign.
Take a moment now. Breathe normally. Just walk through yourself each of the 10 things. Do it now. Go through number one, number two, number three. Take your time and go through it. If you finished early, try to doing it backwards. You can do it. Let's do it together. Let's say it out loud, and even if you haven't finished.
What was number one? Fire, no. What was it, number one? Water bottle, number one was water bottle. Number two is what? Balloons, good. Number three was? Batteries, good. What was number four? Barrel. What was number five? Board. What was number six? Diamond. Number seven? Knight Rider. Number eight? Ox. Number nine? Toothpaste. Number 10? Sign.
Can you do it backwards? Can you do it backwards? How we do? Can we do it backwards? Sign. What's before sign? Toothpaste. Before toothpaste? Ox. Before Ox? Knight Rider. Before Knight Rider? You could do it. Diamond. Before diamond? Board. Before Board? Barrel. What was before barrel? Batteries. Before batteries? Balloon. Right before balloon? Water bottle. Great!
Now, how did we do the second time? Write it down below. Out of the 10, how many did you do the second time? What was the first thing that you got out of the first 10 for the second time? If you didn't get one, I'll keep on talking as you're writing this one. Notice why. Remember, you are your best coach on this. Why did you forget certain things? Did you forget the ox?
Did you forget the Knight Rider? Did you not picture it? Did you not make an association? Did you not make it logical enough? Did you just hear what I said, and not pictured it? This all not memorizing data and facts. Now, how do you apply this new technique? We went through your body list, right? We went through a new chain linking method to be able to create this.
We used the sun method to be able to go through, and go through the last names. How do you apply chain linking towards technical facts? Let's do this. Let's go back to school, because everyone watching this, we have people from students super sure are quick learners from 120 different countries that registered for the Master Class.
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We all have different careers. We all have different vocations. We all have different passions. Let's go back to school. What area of class that was there a lot of memorization of facts? What area? History, some Math, a lot of Sciences. Science is really popular. What kind of things did you need to memorize in Science? What Science? Biology, Physics, Chemistry, let's take Chemistry.
What did you need to memorize in Chemistry? Chemistry is very, very ... Let's take something very technical. The elements, right? What are these elements, these chemical elements? They call it the periodic table. How would you go and memorize the periodic table? Now, if I could show you how to memorize the elements for all of the elements on the periodic table, would you agree that they fall on to three categories for most people?
Number one, the chemical elements on the periodic table, they would be probably pretty technical. Number two, pretty boring for a lot of people, and number three, not very relevant to your life. Now, oxygen and other things are very relevant to your life, but not in your day to day life knowing that.
If I could show you how to use chain linking to memorize something that's technical, to be able to memorize things that are boring to you, very dull, maybe you're not interested in, and things that are not relevant to you, your life, your family or your career. Are you excited about that?
I would get very excited about that, because then you can apply it towards things that are interesting to you. You can apply it towards things that are very relevant to you. That way, you can apply it towards things that are more easier, not as technical, because it's your vocation. It's your passion. It's your interest.
Let's do it. Let's go through the elements of the periodic table. What's the first element? Let's do it together if you remember this? Hydrogen, what's the second element? Helium. What's the third element? Lithium. I can just be making this up. Do you remember these back in school? Lithium, after Lithium was what? What was right after Lithium? Beryllium, good.
After beryllium is what? Boron. After Boron is what? Carbon. After carbon is what? Nitrogen. After nitrogen is oxygen. After oxygen is fluorine. After fluorine is what? Neon. Those are the first 10 elements. Now, we'll just focus on 10, because if you do 10, you could do 11 through 20. In fact, I'm going to ask you to practice 11 to 20.
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I'm going to show you now how to use chain linking. The elements of what you said helps you to better recall the principles of recall if you will. I'm going to take chain linking. If you have to memorize the first 10 elements of the periodic table, I'm going to show you how to do it in two minutes.
If you're going to do the first two in two minutes, you can do the next 10, 11 through 20, in the next two minutes. You can memorize the whole periodic table over time. Remember inch by inch, it's a cinch. Yard by yard, too hard, one step. Here is what we're going to do. Turn every single thing that you want to memorize into a picture, remember, and then connect the pictures.
That's everything using action, exaggeration. Make it illogical. Make it outstanding. Make it unusual, the vowels. The vowels are what glue a word together. The vowels is what glues your links together. Chain linking is this. Let's say you have hydrogen. That's the first element. What reminds you of hydrogen? If I say hydrogen, you can think of hydrogen bomb. You can think of fire hydrant, something that people think of hydro, like a bottle of water.
Imagine a bottle of water. That's what reminds you of hydrogen. Think of a picture of bottle water. Number two, helium. Now, turn it into a picture. What's a picture for helium? If I say helium and I needed to show you on a board by drawing it, painting a picture of it, what could remind you of helium? A balloon, right, a helium balloon, so you have the helium balloon, and you have water bottle.
Connect the two together. Imagine a water bottle tied to a helium balloon. It takes this up in the sky, good. Now, the next thing, third thing that you're going to memorize is lithium. Lithium is the third element. When I say lithium, what do you think of? Battery, right, lithium batteries, and so lithium, so batteries. Connect batteries to what? Balloon.
Forget about the water bottle, just batteries, balloon. Imagine the balloon is there, and all these batteries come and they popped the balloon. They popped the balloon like that. They popped the balloon, good. Now, after batteries, with the lithium batteries, it's beryllium, beryl ileum. What can you picture? What sounds like beryl ileum for beryllium?
A barrel, right? That's where the batteries came from. Imagine the batteries are coming from this gigantic wooden barrel. Does this sound a little bit familiar? Of course it does a memory expert, because we just did this already, right? This list is actually the periodic table. After beryllium, barrel ileum, is bore, that you're
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bored. That's boron. Rolling down the board was what? A diamond will remind you of carbon, because a diamond is just compressed coal or compressed carbon.
If you didn't know that, what could have been rolling down the board? A car full of bon bons, the chocolate ice cream bon bon is rolling down the board. That would remind you of carbon. The coal or the diamond and the falling into the Knight Rider, the car, Knight, nitrogen. It reminds you of nitrogen. The Knight Rider parked behind what? An ox, what's the associate element? Oxygen.
You clean the ox's mouth with what? Toothpaste reminding you of fluorine. Then after that, the toothpaste is all over the what? Neon sign, and that's the 10th element is neon. Very good. The chain linking is a wonderful method to be able to learn facts, another technique or a tool you could use to memorize facts in specific orders.
I'm going to ask you to as we're wrapping up here today is all you do is three things. Review it. Use it, and teach it. I want you to review this lesson. Go through with your notes. Review your notes. Actually put your notes down below. Put your notes down bellow. Put your notes down the bellow over the things that you learn, and share with the people.
Review your notes. Next, you use it. Here is what you're going to do. When you're going through your sun list, make sure you go through create 11 through 20 or 20 to 30, and then practice using that. Go through your body list. Remember your body list? What was on your top? What was on your nose? What was on your mouth? What was on your ears, and so on?
Remember the sun list. Remember sun? Who is the president? Washington. What was number two? Shoes or your socks. Who's the second president? Adams. Who was the third president? Go to your third place, traffic light. Who knows who? Jefferson, right? Then you have Madison. You have Monroe. You have Adams. You have [all of them 01:01:55]. You have Jackson.
Remember all of those. What I want you to do another practice is to go through 11 to 20. Do the presidents 11 through 20. Then I'd like you to finally memorize for factual information, technical information is to practice the periodic table. We did this through one through 10. I want you to practice.
Go online, and look at the elements from 11, 12, 13, 14, all the way to 20. If you want to get really fancy, continue the chain linking, the story method, all the way
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through 11 through 30. That would build your brain power. Use it. First, you review it. You can watch this video again. Second of all, you use it. Thirdly, teach it to somebody else.
Teach them the body list. Go through, and say, "Hey, I'm taking this Master Class. I'm really excited about it. Let me show you something really cool on how to memorize your grocery list." Teach them the 10 places on your body. Then give them 10 things. Have them give you 10 things. You teach it, because when you teach something, you get to learn it twice.
That's the magic. You get to play it forward. Put your questions down below, so I can answer them in the coaching call and the Q&A that we have coming up. I look forward in this. We're just getting started. We've only gone through a handful of modules, but the meat of it is still to come.
Now that we're building the base, and I'm showing you how to do the fundamentals, we're going to go through and we're going to get to play a lot more. The things that are coming up are going to be things that absolutely blow your mind. I'm starting to get these goose bumps. I call them truth bumps of what's to come.
Keep it going. Step it up. I'm here to be able to challenge you, to be able to play with you. I'm your coach. Put your questions down bellow. I look forward to answering them. I look forward to seeing you next session. Till then, I wish you lots of life, lots of love, lots of laughter. I will always wish you lots of learning. Be unforgettable. Take care.