How to triple your memory by using this trick | Ricardo Lieuw On | TEDxHaarlem
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- Published on Dec 11, 2017
- Do you recall studying for your exams? You probably do. But do you remember how you studied, how you memorized French words or the year of the American civil war? Now, thatβs probably harder. As a teenager, Ricardo Lieuw On was packing groceries when he knew what he wanted to study: he wanted to learn about learning. He picked up a study in psychology and learned how to reduce his learning time from 3 hours to 1 hour on the same piece of content. He gained the same knowledge in 200% less time. And specially for TEDxHaarlem, he shares the secret of his technique.
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I could only memorise 4 of 10 items on my first attempt. Then i watched the rest of the video, and learned how to triple my memory. Now i can remember twelve out of ten.
@Tej Somani Have been meaning to reply to your comment for some time...
...But I keep forgetting to do it.
@Rajib Chowdhury Recall what?π
I also only got 4 in the beginning!!! π¨π€―π€―
@Dave Leori Donbo finally you understand sarcasm
How long. Can you recall now?
Short summary:
- When you imagine bizarre stories it becomes a lot easier to remember.
- If you tie this stories with place where you know very well (like your body or room) memorizing things on order become a lot easier.
- Everyone can improve yourself by experimenting (your age is doesn't matter)
- Find a new different methods to improve yourself and applying it in your life to see how it work for you.
- With experiments in your life you will be better not only in particular skill, but also it skill to learn new thing. It will impact to your hobbies, work, relationships - to all you life.
Many thanks
@Agustin yeah imagination is really good i accept it but , understanding much more important because knowledge we learn must apply somewhere and used in different scenarios for that memorisation will not help you ...
Any way thank ....
@Phani naidu It is helpful, it helps you remember properties that may apply with a given problem.
@Phani naidu India
@Professor X where are you from ??
The first time through was easier for me and I got all 10 correct. My method: I broke up the words into 3 groups of three and then the last word by itself. (Much easier to remember small groups than one long list). I repeated each group several times in my head to get the order down and visualized each word in the group.
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1st group, (Beard object jacket). 2nd group (secret edge nothing)
3rd group (date band punch)
And gas β½οΈ at the end to fuel the whole idea.
@Rami Al Johi what works for neurotypicals will never work for us π I started wondering abt why john threw the sun at my feet and why the Mcdonald owner was shooting light at me and lost concentration too many times.
I did the same but only got 6 right
Yeah i did the same thing lol
Yes, this worked for me too, thank you! Much easier and faster than trying to come up with bizarre/memorable visualizations.
This made me chuckle... "gas at the end to fuel the whole idea" :)
This is the most clutter-free way to memorise things.
Iβm 75 and I love to keep learning and growing. One word of caution though: there is not one single method, including yours, that works for everyone.
There is no single best way. A lot depends on being able to imagine and then finding your own way, as you found yours. These may be tools we can all use, but they are not the only way it happens, and for some people, maybe not the best.
@Jack Reacher I have too much visual memory
Sometimes I go to the supermarket, and there I was wondering what I intended to buy!
Accurate. Also, I was trying to memorize the first list by using a story and just felt rushed. If I had endless time to consider the words, I would have managed better.
@Landon Eaves Thank you! I saw that same issue with his comment and wrote a response below.
Wrong. These techniques were used by Romans, Greeks, aboriginals and even up to the Renaissance era to remember VAST amounts of info. He didn't invent these methods. Strange you seem to be arguing for limitations. He gave a SAMPLE there are other ways, ways to tweak this to make it way more memorable than brute memorization.
Very helpful, thank you! My memory effectively tripled: 0x3=0
Well said Sir. Your mastery of memory and arithmetic is worth at least thirteen and a half out of eleven.
Still, you practiced some math
Hahahaha
Very funnyπ
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Funny. Alzheimerβs is Not funny. Itβs horrific!
You had 1 before, not β0β. 1x3=3 --is still an incorrect mathematical expressionβ¦at least itβs not a pessimistic one =]
This is a good method for memorising lists of unrelated items, but it doesnβt account for the fact that most things that we learn are also first UNDERSTOOD, not just memorised. In fact, understanding what you want to remember is the first step that you should do.
Yes, this is so true. While the video gives tips on how to memorize, F52's point is very valid. It is important to understand not simply memorize.
Self-awareness + growth mindset
@Ango Nuts oh, that's true! I still think that he should have spent more time showing different possibilities though
You havent got the point of the video. By doing that he tried to explain that there's not only one way to learn, but there's many ways an the only way to find those out is to experiment and find the methods that best suit you.
Best way to literally memorize entire books with enough patience and a bit of imagination: visualise what you're reading. Like really visualise what is that you're reading and make connections. Try it with this video by visualizing and connecting every word to a whole.
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Wait thats only way i have read my whole life, to understand what i read.... is there other ways to read???
Canβt. Aphantasia.
@r_1901 i memorized my birthday
Memorized the entire script of Casablanca.
I remember everything I see and hear. Retaining knowledge is no issue for me. Getting peace of mind is. Everything echos including pain as if it happened yesterday, yet itβs been years. Absolutely everything! Including the good too! I can also read 2,000+ words per min.
Peace of mind is only things to remember... 1=Become aware that you do not have peace of mind without reasoning about it (just be a witness of it) 2-accrpt it, be ok with it at this very moment and 3-make an intention to be grateful of your mentioned talents whenever you catch yourself not having peace of mind. This may be useful. You use uncomfortable suffering to make you conscious of the present moment or in other words, you suffer free willingly.
please teach me how to do it
You came as a blessing. I was having hard time with memorising. But your trick made it easier. I hope it will help me crack my exams. InshahAllah.
Thanks a lot...!!!
On the first exercise I remembered 7, I missed a block of three words. From the second exercise without being lead I probably remembered around the same amount. I found this video after changing job to somewhere I need to remember companies, names and places and improve my retention. I think this is more effective for revision for exams and not short term memory.
25years back, my brother memorized his high school exams through 1st letter short-coding or this kind of picturization-story building / mind imaging
I followed this technique too to score as topper
Time plays a role to showcase the latter people take credit of this ancient techniqueπ
Him: remember this 10 words in order
Me: trying to remember it
My brain: don't you even dare think about that
Lmaoooo yo
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Et tu Brute?! π
Me too
I hate my brain π
As people in crowd stood up i stood up too ..cause this legend really deseves an a huge applause
Conclusion: Use visualisation and images to learn, whatever u learn relate it with Something interesting.
Do you know that lofi music helps your brain to focus while studying or working and can actually improve productivity? Give it a try!
@Tony T I did get my permit. The teachers at the training site were extremely mean and was wishing for me to fail the final time but your response I took and applied it and I passed. Man the teachers were so upset lol a week later I was released from the training site because of one of the trainers got in their feelings. A month after I was released the entire training site was shut down due to illegal activity and all the students had to find their way back to their hometown. Everthing happened on purpose even though I wanted to drive trucks. But know I'm doing something far more better than driving trucks I'm walking with Jesus and doing things that bring internal fulfillment and purpose. All the bad things worked out for my good and God was protecting me through it all.
@LetsTalk TV Chris Kyle
@Major Merc belo
I live in Karachi Pakistan and I like your comment send 10 month old
I'm already using this method since childhood. This method is especially helpful in rote learning. "A new way of approaching something old " Thank you, sir!
Well done, Ricardo. Clearly, many of my fellow commentators have mastered The Art of Breaking Stones, and some of us have developed The Art of Comedy to an extent (but let's not go and quit our day jobs JUST YET, y'all!). Kidding aside, folks, I hope you all had fun watching and listening, and were able to take Ricardo's final thoughts, which I found truly interesting and worthwhile, into account.
βTriple my memory?β Bro 0x3 is still 0
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Your sense of humor is very good!!
Really liked your comment.
@Digital Cafe Lofi really
I only memorised 5 words for the first time round and the second time round I did indeed memorise a whole lot more. It worked so well.
@sayyam zahid uhm, what? Lol
@Son Hak Cairo dindori madhya
I live in Karachi Pakistan and I like your comment
lol seym
tho i only memorized 6 out of 10 words in the first round
Memorizing while studying is not a good habit but understanding it. When you learn/understand it, it is automatically saved in your brain.
Some things just need to memorized, no need to understand e.g. some phone numbers or an address.
You can understand and still forget. Memory techniques are important esp if you are going to be tested
understanding the concept is important but thing is if we want to score the exam paper we should memorize it bcuz understanding and memorizing concept it depend on subject .for mathematics we don't need memorize just understand the concept it's ok bt for literature we want to memeroize all the notes.including full stop .
I agree but i understand the topic deeply but i forget this is my habit or? But i use mind palace technique this was very effect
Yes, this is a very important concept and how I did well in school, but can't remember my own life well. There are good times for this method though.
Good idea. I think Ted is really a good platform for me to see many excellent people's speeches. They often teach some very practical skills or introduce new things. Thank you for your video and sharing.
I live in Karachi Pakistan and I like your comment if you don't mind
I was amazed when I came across this video . Am currently in University I was in Primary school doing 7th grade when I came up with this idea of memorizing where I tell a story in my head just like what he did or if I could only remember the first letters of probably all 10 words and yeah, it just sticks with me until now π.
This has to be experimented for different types of subject we wish to learn. Very useful
I was able to remember 9/10 words in the first attempt because I knew the strategy he explained later on. I had read this in a book when I was in class 4th I guess. In the book we had to remember 30 items and use our house as an example to fit every item at every corner of the house. I still remember few of the items from the list. This actually works great.
What you nice to share book name ? Thanks
This is a good video about memory power improvement.
In real life scenario, when you meet group of people in which more than 2 persons first name is same and their last name may e different, it would be difficult to remember their names. Especially this might have come across many of us during the teleconference/face to face meeting
During that time , Concertante on your valuable points rather then spending effort on calling people on their names.
However good approach in the meeting is that to call the people in their names.
Whenever you connect a piece of information to something meaningful you will remember it much easier. Think of stories about your childhood and how easy it is to remember stuff. Also thereβs nothing wrong with rote memorisation it worked for people like Einstein, and Newton. As an example of the stories way of remembering I remember our telephone number from when I was 12 years old. I also remember the phone number of a large winery in our area lol why? Because it was one digit off of our number. We would get people dialling the wrong number all the time. So I remember my number, the wineryβs number and the name of that winery lol. This is how people remember things better than any other way. Also, itβs easier to remember things if you stop relying on technology to do it for you. This translates to or spills over into other areas of life. Its ironic but the more you rely upon technology the dumber you get lol. When I was a teenager I new the telephone number of my house, my best friends house, plus about a dozen girls phone numbers lol. Why? Because I had to lol. Today I routinely have to look into my phone for my own phone number when filling out forms lol. Why? Because I donβt have to remember any numbers theyβre all in my phone lol. I actually donβt know the number of the landline at my house lol why? Because itβs in my favouriteβs list which is basically speed dial. I hit the button that says home and it dials for me. So if I donβt have my phone Iβm lost and confused lol. We are all relying on technology way to much to our detriment. Iβve gone back to writing everything down in a notebook and Iβve discovered that Iβm getting my memory skills back. I am able to remember things concerning my other activities in life and also peoples names and phone numbers as well as birthdays and other special things without my phone lol. Just by writing something down with a pen or pencil I commit it to my memory better than if I just input it into my phone. Try it and see if you find your brain working better. See your brain is like any other muscle if you donβt use it or exercise it, it will atrophy and not work as well as you would like. Iβm finding my vocabulary is getting back to where it used to be which is full of really interesting words that I can use in all sorts of ways and people think Iβm way smarter than I really am lol. I want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year π₯³
I am using this technique since childhood. Great way to memorize
I have to say that I watched this for the first time months ago and it helped. I get a lot more compliments on my memory. This is my little secret!
Give this man a medal, he changed my life!
@Elsie Nyangor Really? I. Gonna give it a try then. Thanks Sis!
@Wanda Young yes it did. I get compliments about my memory so much more now. I thought I had no memory.
Did it work for you?
This is easier for a dyslexic person: everything for us has image and own logical explanation to our brain. We don't need to memorize, we captchure the moment as an image or any creative way that we see it. π
It is so inspiring the art of learning π. Thank you :D
Tienes que aprender las cosas de diferente forma , quizΓ‘ hay muchas cosas que puedes hacer mΓ‘s fΓ‘cilmente , prΓ‘cticamente tienes que imaginar en tu mente lo que quieres memorizar pero contΓ‘ndote una historia y tΓΊ debes estar como buen observador viendo cada detalle de lo que empiezas a imaginar.
Him: with all the technologies around, why do we need to memorize?
Med school: *I happened to exist*
Ah the truth has been spoken. Watching this while I have year 3 exams in 45 days
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Do you know that lofi music helps your brain to focus while studying or working and can actually improve productivity? Give it a try!
Yep.. Like how do I make pictures out of all the names of muscles, nerves, their locations etc etc
π― bro...thats what i was thinking too...lol
Still memorising
Anaesthesia drugs. ..lol π
And watching this video as a break
I used a similar kind of trick in jr high, to memorize all the countries in Africa. A long story sentences that was
in and of itself meaningless, but was key to the country names north to south. Ahh, sweet validation.
It was really nice to listen to the sounds of the audience when they startet talking to each other,in about 2 minutts into this video, I dont know why,but it just made me feel happy. The sounds of engaged humans when they just play and relax, thats a good sound!
I get you, its so much better living near a large stadium packed over the weekend. like white noise. comforting knowing your surrounded and not alone I guess, or it only feels like that
Awesome.. it certainly works to recollect by using this technique.. thanks much
Very inspiring & interesting ππ»
The visualization is a great method especially for those with good imagination, I was already using it without knowing in the first 10 words and got them all right, plus making the words groups , in the first 5 words i imagined myself wearing a jacket, so i took it from my face downwards, my "beard" is an "object" and i am wearing a "jacket" which has a "secret" pocket and "edge" then the next 3 and said to myself no one (nothing) will "date" a whole "band", and the last two i punched the air so i remember it and the only word I memorized was gas. It varies from one to another, but it is very efficient way overall, as for his story i memorized them by listening only to the way he elaborate and repeats which is another way combined with visualization, good job I myself got experience at the end, thanks.
I sang the words in order and remembered 8 π
If I would have a minute, I probably couldβve remembered all of it. Music cements memory too
These tricks are ancient and Iβm glad heβs disseminating the information. For fun I memorized a deck of cards using the Memory Palace technique by Simonides.
He took the example of general knowledge. I would love to see if he takes an example of he studying psychology or medicine.
This strategy is impressive to people who hear this mnemotechnic solution for the first time, but in most learning situations the brain doesn't work this way easily enough to make up stories and remember all of them. It's a pretty good idea to use it once in a blue moon, but not on a daily basis.
Works great for bullsh*ters and journalists.
Given enough time investment, you can create a weird story for just about any information.
The main problem I have with this is the extra level of indirection between request and retrieval of information.
Makes it:
1. Take a few moments longer to recall than if it were really burned into memory.
2. Makes it harder to use as a foundation for other knowledge.
Example: If you have to think "velocity" as a burning meteor falling towards earth at a given speed and direction... Well you have to re-invoke that imagery every time you look at equations using vectors. It's like your brain is running on a scripting language rather than something closer to the metal, because of the extra layer of abstraction.
wow this is amazing thank you . omg started with 3/10 and rewatched it and scored a 10/10 wow!
This is one of the best videos I've seen in my life....it really got me laughing and happy π
This was extremely helpfull for a student like me.
Great video on memory... Improving mine daily with techniques
Dear Mr. Ricardo Lieuw On, I am now a retired spine surgeon. I took my first course in mnemonics after I finished my internship. I was very angry that this is not a federal requirement to be taught in all schools. The time, energy and resources that would be improved boggles my imagination. The ripple effect on ideas, inventions and books goes through the roof. Please do everything you can to make a federal law that these techniques be taught in all schools. Thank you.π
Do you have any tips for current medical students trying to get into surgery?
Tell me about it. Could teach better material. Some stuff that actually comes in handy for the real world.
Hi. retired medic here. Agreed. I've been saying similar for 40 years. IT gives some muscle, but not fleetfooted enough. They should do a pilot, maybe one med school. Regards from UK.
I remember memorizing the whole periodic table in what is suggested in this video in my high school years. But the fact of the matter is if I am going to remember everything I want to remember by authoring a corresponding story will it be practical?is it not even becoming counterproductive ? The reason we pay money to novel writers is that it is a gift given to few talented persons, and it takes time and energy to do it. So no matter how hard we try to frame it, practice, repetition and hard work are the key to memorization.
I remember so much from school, I was drilled A student who additionally was remembering things, learning things for fun and because I thought I would need it in future. When I was 13 I remembered all american states in alphabetical order on one summer vacation day because I was bored and I thought it would prove to be useful in life as America is influential country in the world. I lived in the Balkans in Europe. I didn't use such methods or anything. I repeated until I had it memorised once and for all. It took maybe an hour or something. Sometimes I recall it to see if I still can do it and I always do it very quickly speaking, counting them automatically without any imagination (I have great imagination, but here it's not necessary for some "tricks" or whatever). Until day of today, today I'm 29, I can recite them all perfectly and know where they are, even though alphabetical order is not intuitive way for finding them all on map. Don't go shortway, if your goal is permanent learning. Also reciting out loud can be useful for memorising the melody of what you are saying. This is just one example, but a good example of boring facts that you can remember if you put mindwork to it and have a longterm goal.
PS, the experience of excersise from this video was a bit PsYcHeDeLiC... π
Thank you extremely helpful!! I'll try on my children now
Literally I Have Already Done That Exact Same Experiment When I Was 7th Grader β€οΈ
I love how TheXvid recommends this video the day before my exams
Somebody on Twitter told me that you arenβt allowed to memorize answers in med school anymore, itβs cheating. That makes no sense.
Spying on us ;)
I was talking about Lego to someone one day and the saw a Lego commercial a few days later!
WTFF tomorrow's my exam
Exactly!π
Ah, nothing like a good olβ ted x to make me feel like Iβm not procrastinating.
Excellent. Helpful, thank you.
It may be one of the approach to remember things/facts, but learning through human nature is the best approach to aide-memoire.
Dharmender Singh
I could memorize the first 6 items in my first attempt and looking forward to grow more.
my memory is so bad that I forgot I watched this video before
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π I forgot to watch it.
That is based cause it's been long since you studied try to watch videos more consistently. Weeks back I barely remember anything
@Staden Well, "two hours later" that makes you a genius.
ππ You're not alone. I laughed thinking, tripling would only allow me to locate my eye glasses on my own head.
The trick to increasing memory is something I taught myself after a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage. The trick: remember like women do automatically, Associate moments with emotion as soon as possible
Iβve had two tbis that are moderate. Can you give me an example please
I had a SAH in June 2021. You're exactly right...people communicate in pictures, sounds and feelings. Don't ever forget that!!! xoxo
Very inspirational and educative.
Thanks Ricardo, the idea of using body parts for chain linking is genius.
I remember similar system is mentioned in the book how to develop super power memory. It is called peg system and the link system .
The book I purchased was for 30 inr. The seller was quoting 50, I asked for 25 , he said take it for free however settled for 30.
The story method has limitations. Even by link method and peg method you have to practice a lot.
Interest is very important in memory.
I passed my 10th mathematics by remembering all the questions answers πππ
Math needs practice rather than memorization
i memorized and got all 10! iβm still gonna watch this video anyways! i just linked each word and divided the wordsβ¦ i canβt believe i remembered even after 18 seconds (short term memory)β¦ i picture a story of itβ¦ make bizarre images
It really works! I did actually remember all the 10 names by that story, and I'm not even American.
I memorize in my first question 9/10
After i did 1/10 thanks its completed
Summary of this video- Just connect the information you learn, information that is connected,acts as a structure that holds one information with another and helps brain remember easily. Imagine you driving three vehicles one by one and then connecting the vehicles with one another and driving one of the vehicle easily. Now imagine you holding three objects and then making the objects sticky and connecting the objects and holding them easily then.
I always forgot about five rivers but my father said that there is a technique to learn it and you will never forget in your life. SIRJC, S for sutlej river, I for Indus river, R for ravi river, J for jhelum river and C for chenab river. Making easy to remember too many words or sentence is to make them into a small sentence or code. Another example: Rainbow colours (Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain). Richard: red, York: yellow, Gave: green, Battle: blue, In: indigo and Vain: violet. This is the technique to convert different words which you can't remember into short or simple. After this you can remember forever.
He took the entire audience into a sub conscious level before memorizing all the president names.
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Nice talk. In recent years, many schools have taken to "visualization" to enable students to learn and retain the information for longer periods of time. This also goes with the belief in psychology, that most people have a good eidetic memory, so people can easily relate to information which is shown in graphic form, than in letters / alphabetic characters. This is why story books for very young kids are always pictorial and not verbose, as it's for adults. Besides making learning more fun through pictures, it also helps kids understand and retain the information better. The same goes for comic strips and such. Moreover, there are many tutorial websites / mobile apps, which present complex theoretical concepts pictorially / graphically, which makes them easier to understand and relate to. This is how education should be imparted. Also, as Ricardo rightly says, people have forgotten the art of remembering things. There was a time I could remember all the phone numbers, birthdays, etc. of my near & dear ones. But, after the "smartphone culture" was unleashed upon us, it's hard for me to remember even my secondary mobile numbers :-)
Its look like you are talking not just about yourself. But about every student
I actually used this technique for the first attempt but its highly powerful.
this guy really inspired me to perform better in my academics
Tedx helping to us learn English . I am watching continuously since last 2 years
Break the goal into 3 steps,
Thanks for sharing mateππβ
Thanks for the tutorial and method I got from you bro, you're so good and legit you're the best costdude
Thank you, inspiring!
You make a great job for awakening the around world. thanks a lot.
I could do all 10 in 30 seconds , felt great
No one, I repeat no one on this face of earth has explained to me the concept of memory palace better than this gentleman here. Thank you, sir! You have done a fantastic job!
It's not about improving your memory it's just a way for encoding specific things. like chemistry codes for tables.
I use rooms in my house I grew up in. I have my mental image of 5 items in each of the rooms. I associate the word with the objects in the room. I've done up to 50 words before when being told only once slowly to give me time to do the association. I've never had to go past that, but it would be easy. Its neat because you can do it in any order and someone can ask you what item 21 is and you will just know because you know where that object is in the house.
awesome thank you sir u nailed it sir
What a great work πβΊοΈπΌβ¨
1st of all great speech ππππ
2nd iam aware of this great method of memorizing since school days but the prob is i couldnot really apply it on memorizing science like biology and chemistry, or pharmacology as we have memorize alot of dry names with side effects and indications..
At certain times itβs almost impossible for me to imagine something. My brain goes so off the rails that I barely made it through what this guys was saying before imagining different stuff every time he talked. My memory though I think being compared to friends and family is way better than thereβs but itβs not amazing.
He spoke everything in detail my father used to tell me in short that you can do everything if you do it with fun and that actually works because you never forget the things which companies fun in it.
This video helps me a lot thank you so much
This is exciting! My goodness! Thank you so much for this!
It is interesting to keep mind & body engaged with such a focused and funny manner but does it work for individuals with severe depression,Alzheimer,dementia or any sort of mental illness because these are the people who actually struggles a lot with memory ? If yes then please share those techniques also so that it would help such individuals & in return helps in deteriorating suicidal cases.A reply to it would be highly appreciable.
Everyone is gangsta until they open their chemistry lab manual or block chemistry for jee β¦.Indians can relate
Lol π
Salt analysis πππ΅
bhaiii F true !
When my dad hit me belt I memorised everything like whole dictionary without problemπ
This is amazing. Fabulous video
first attempt 7out of 10 don't know how but I did itππ
I remember our school had such similar thing but the difference is there were 40 words and I still know the story of those 40 words π
I memorized 9 out of ten in my first attempt
Learning is about understanding primarily. In situations where you need to memorise on the job that's the best way to do it.
Who learns the Periodic table - people who want to learn to memorise and show off. Show me a chemist somewhere who has learned it. They use charts!
But walking us through that story took a LOT longer than 30 seconds!
Yes 3 minutes!! Not only that but for people over forty years old the most recent five presidents is easy to recall. One does not have to memorize these five. Also the first list of ten words had no connection- they were not even related grammatically (eg all nouns or all verbs). The first exercise was strictly memorizing. The second exercise which took three minutes (not 30 seconds) was a thinking and answering a question which one had knowledge or names and order before.
it might took even longer for you to Search such a wonderfull video ..
I teach math. It can sometimes take 5 minutes to teach how to work a problem that once they learn how to do it only takes 30 seconds or less to do.
Exactly , memorization is easy with visualisation but it does take time.
Was taught this method first in 1988 in an NTMA machinist pre-employment class to learn to remember the names of everyone in a room of 30 or so people had just met who were in the class with me. but only used it a couple of times as it does take practice and I tried to avoid getting fired as much as possible and having to get familiar with all the personal in a new shop in a short time. only got fired once, and technically I was laid off but was at least useful for learning a group of people's names fairly quickly and with practice could go through the list to whichever person I was talking to much faster then when first arranged it in my head. out of practice now but only a few people's name from 2nd shop have forgot since 1990 when had to leave town. Everyone in that class memorized each other's names in less that a few minutes before we moved on to other things bye-the-way.
Loved it. Thank you. X
Thank you Ricardo for sharing.
This is called: Mnemonic. This is the way I study. It helped me achieve a Science Degree and a Real Estate Agent license at the age of 21. It works. For reference (it case you want to dig depeer) The 'Bizarre' he refers to is also called the 'Von Restorff Effect'.
I did an audio language program to learn Dutch - go figure. The name : Linkword. The whole thing was word association. Worked very well.