ok I'm going to go ahead
and start this workshop is called more memory tricks and i know some of
you were here
last week at the regular memory tricks
if you weren't
you'll be able to catch on to this i think very quickly anyway but i have so
many memory tricks that it's hard to
uh...
cover them all in one workshop so we're going for two uh... these are the four
things that i'm a going to talk to you about today this one is really quick and then
we're going to spend a lot of time on these next couple
uh... last week for those who were here one thing that you should remember
is that um...i taught a couple of math tricks at the beginning of the workshop
and that was not designed to teach math
it was designed to just show you the power of tricks in knowing shortcut
ways to do things
and so uh... i'm gonna show you one more math trick and now as just a little
warm up
this is nothing you need to write down or anything but again it's to show you
something about again the power of tricks
so if i ask you
to do a problem
like that
nine divided by point two five
what you would need to do in order to solve that would be
to do this
and then this and then you have to move the decimal point over and just do the
whole thing
if you know the basics of how to do it it's not that hard it just takes a
little while to kind of process through
but if you know the trick you can do it in about one second
without having to do any of this and that is
whenever you have a math problem where you have a number divided by point two
five
that's the exact same as multiplying it by four
which is a lot easier than the other
so here's your math question for the day what's nine times four
thirty-six ok and if you had done
all of this
and all that and done it... you would have come up with the same answer it would have
just taken you are a lot longer
and so six divided by point two five would be
twenty-four right six times four
and the fact that you can do that once you learn this in about one second
doesn't mean that you're any smarter then you were when you came in here in
math it just means that you know the shortcut again the trick
and so with the goal of last week's workshop and this week
is to show you some applications of how you can use tricks to make your memory
absorb more and do better on tests as a result
and that's what these three are going to be all about okay
so whether you follow that completely or not doesn't particularly matter for our
purposes today but
what i wanted to do first
in terms of uh... actual teaching
has to do with mental pictures and uh... quick uh... recap for those who were not
here last week just so that you have an idea of what we're doing
i explained last week that one of the best memory tricks you can have
is learning how to close your eyes and getting a picture of something in a
certain way and then it
sticks
that kind of glues into your brain and you remember it
all of us have imagination all of us can close our eyes and see things
but two of the qualities of a good mental picture that i gave last time