- Hey guys, my name's Ron white.
I'm a two-time USA memory champion.
I have a memory course at blackbeltmemory.com,
where I teach people how to memorize stuff.
And recently a medical student
was going through my Black Belt Memory course.
And he said,
"Ron, how do I memorize this diagram of the heart?
But not only do I need to memorize the diagram of the heart,
I need to memorize the pattern.
The way that the blood flows,
the way around the heart, the order."
Now there's several different ways you can do this.
There's no right way
or wrong way as long as it works for you.
I'm gonna show you one way to do this though.
And I'm also gonna teach you the mind palace method,
if you don't know it.
Here's the mind palace method.
Imagine you're standing in the doorway
of the room that you're in right now.
You look to your immediate left,
what's the first big piece of furniture?
Is it a desk,
a bed, a TV, whatever?
Doesn't matter.
That would be number one.
Then go around the room clockwise,
always in a clockwise
or counterclockwise way.
Going around the room,
let's say clockwise,
number the next piece of furniture.
That would be two.
One, two.
Keep going. Three, four, five.
Pick big items not small items.
And then you would go to the next room
and you would number starting the doorway.
And you would number six,
seven, eight, nine, and 10.
Then you would go to the next room,
start the doorway,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
You have two options right now.
You can pause the video now
and number 15 pieces of furniture.
Or you can just try to do this on the fly with me.
If I'm going too fast,
don't be afraid to use the pause button.
And this might not make sense.
As we're going through this you might be like,
"What in the world is he doing?
I wanna memorize a map of the heart."
Stick with me.
Stick with me to the end
and I promise you you'll have it memorized.
Even if during in the middle of it you're like,
"Where's he going with this?"
It will all come together.
So I'm gonna make the screen go pretty much blank
because I don't want you focusing on me.
And I don't want you focusing on the map of the heart.
I want you to have these pictures in your brain.
In this room we're gonna do five words.
In the next room we're gonna do five words.
And then the third room we're gonna do five words.
If you think you will be able to follow along
as I give them to you,
then by all means keep watching the video.
Most of you however,
will benefit though by pausing the video now,
getting out a sheet of paper
and writing out the 15 pieces of furniture.
And trying to get them in your head.
Also in this video,
you might think you're going crazy
in hearing a bird in the background.
Well, you're not going crazy.
It's my bird Hugan
and he chirped a lot in the background.
So listen for him
and pay attention, more importantly.
Don't let it distract you.
I want you to look to the...
In your mind
or in reality,
I want you to look at that number one piece of furniture.
So in the room that you're in right now
look at the number one piece of furniture.
And on that piece of furniture,
I want you to imagine a cave.
There is a cave
and veins are growing out of this cave.
Like just a huge cave
going down a tunnel into the crown.
A cave with veins coming out of it.
Go to the second piece of furniture,
the number two piece of furniture.
And I want you to imagine a tree on that piece of furniture.
See a tree growing out of that
number two piece of furniture.
Look over there,
imagine you got a chain saw
and you're chopping down that.
Now go back to one
and review the cave with veins growing out of the cave.
Go back to number two
and review a tree.
On number three I want you to imagine your cousin.
And your cousin is on this piece of furniture
and your cousin's riding around on a tricycle.
And your cousin turns off a valve.
So your cousin on a tricycle
and they turn off a valve.
Move it across to the next number four piece of furniture.
I want you to imagine a vent.
A vent and it's blowing out air.
Just look over there at that piece of furniture
and there's a vent
and (indistinct) air is shooting
out of that piece of furniture.
Air shooting out of that piece of furniture on a vent.
Go to piece of furniture number five now.
On piece of furniture number five,
I want you to imagine some lungs.
And these lungs are breathing.
And you go over there
and you turn a valve
and it turns the lungs off.
Lungs breathing, you turn off a valve
and it turns the lungs off.
Now let's go back
and review the five in this room.
You have a cave with veins growing out of it.
On number two,
you have a tree.
On number three,
you have a tricycle
and your cousin's riding it.
Your cousin turns off a valve
as he's riding the tricycle.
Number four, you have a vent
and lots of air's blowing out of that vent.
Number five, you have some lungs breathing
and you shut them off with the valve.
Now let's go to the next room.
In the next room now, number six.
On number six I want you to see the Mona Lisa,
the painting the Mona Lisa.
And imagine she's breathing,
she's taking deep breaths.
The Mona Lisa breathing on number six.
Go to number seven now.
In your mind,
I want you to see on number seven a pair of lungs.
Go back and review number six, the Mona Lisa.
Review seven, the pair of lungs.
Number eight.
I want you to imagine
a pair of lungs
and veins are coming out of these lungs.
Two lungs, a pair
and veins are coming out of those lungs.
Number seven, it's just a pair of lungs.
Go back and review number six.
It is the Mona Lisa
and she's breathing.
Go back and review number five.
It's a pair of lungs
and you shut them off with a valve.
Four, it's a vent that's blowing out air.
Go back and review three.
It's your cousin riding a tricycle
and your cousin turns off the valve.
Go back and review number two.
It's a tree.
Go back and review number one.
A cave with veins coming out of it.
Now let's go all the way back through
and we'll stop at number nine
because that's the next one.
On number nine,
I want you to see a tree growing out of
that piece of furniture.
Look over there at that number nine piece of furniture.
There's a tree growing out of number nine.
Number 10.
I want you to see your cousin riding a bicycle.
On number three,
he was riding a tricycle.
And you can remember that
because it was a third piece of furniture
and he was riding a tricycle.
On number 10 he's riding a bicycle.
So three was a tricycle.
Your cousin riding a bicycle.
Now you've memorized 10 words.
Let's go back
and review them.
On the first one,
a cave with veins going out of it.
Number two, a tree.
Number three, your cousin riding a tricycle.
And he turns off a valve.
Number four, a vent.
number five, lungs
and you're turning them off with a valve.
Number six, the Mona Lisa breathing.
Number seven, a pair of lungs.
Number eight, lungs
and veins are coming out of them.
Number nine a tree.
Number 10 , a bicycle
and your cousin on a bicycle.
Number 11, I want you to see a vent.
A vent on number 11.
And it's just blowing out hair,
it feels so good.
If there's five in a room,
you're in your third room now.
If there's five in a room,
you're in your third room.
You are on your 11th piece of furniture,
vent blowing out.
Vent, blowing out air on number 11.
Number 12, let's move one piece of furniture over.
What's the next piece of furniture in that room?
I want you to see a valve
and you hit it with an oar.
Like a oar on a boat.
A valve and you hit it with an oar on a boat.
Go back and review 11,
a vent.
Vent is shooting out of that
piece of furniture.
Number 12, there is a valve
and you hit it with an oar,
like a oar to a boat.
Number 13, I want you to imagine just an oar.
Maybe you see a boat there
and there's two oars in your paddling.
An oar is the only word you remembering here.
Number 14, I want you to imagine art,
like the Mona Lisa.
The Mona Lisa on number 14.
Look at that piece of furniture
and see the Mona Lisa.
The Mona Lisa on that piece of furniture.
Number 15, I want you to imagine
it's covered in caterpillars.
It's covered in caterpillars on number 15.
That's the last one in that room.
If you've done five in a room.
Caterpillars all over that piece of furniture.
And then if you want to remember one last word
just remember the word veins.
And you could imagine veins on the next piece of furniture,
wherever that it is.
So guys, here's the deal.
I just gave you 15 words
and you imagined them on 15
or 16 pieces of furniture around your house.
So now guys,
let's go back
and let's think about the words I gave you.
And we memorized veins in a cave for superior
and inferior vena cava.
I didn't bother to memorize the word superior or inferior.
Just vena and cava.
And I did that with veins in a cave.
The next word was a tree.
This is for the word atrium.
Now it is the right atrium,
but there's a little trick here.
We deal with the right side of the heart before
the blood gets to the lungs.
Once the blood gets to the lungs,
then it's dealing with the left side of the heart.
So I don't feel like we need to memorize right atrium.
We just need to memorize atrium.
The number three, tricuspid valve.
Your cousin, cuspid.
Tri, tricycle.
And valve, he's turning off a valve.
Tricuspid valve.
Number four, ventricle.
We had a vent.
Now, again, we don't have to memorize right.
We know it's the right
because it hasn't been to the lungs yet.
Number five, we have lungs
and a valve.
Pulmonary for lungs,
valve valve, pulmonary valve.
This is actually the pulmonary semilunar valve.
If you don't think you'll remember the word
semilunar then imagine a moon in there
in this picture as well.
Add that to the picture.
Number six, we had the Mona Lisa,
that is our picture for the word arteries.
Art, arteries.
And pulmonary, she's breathing.
Pulmonary arteries.
Number seven, we just had a pair of lungs.
That is just remember lungs.
Number eight, we had lungs with veins coming out of them.
Lungs are gonna represent pulmonary
and then veins veins.
So pulmonary veins.
Now this is the right pulmonary veins
and the left pulmonary veins.
I don't think you need to memorize the words right and left.
I think your brain should just fill that in.
On the next piece of furniture,
we had a tree.
That is for atrium.
And remember, since it's after the lungs,
it's gonna be the left.
So it's the left atrium.
On the next piece of furniture,
we had our cousin.
And he was riding a bicycle,
the bicuspid valve.
Number 11. On this one we had a vent for ventricle.
And remember, since it's after the lungs
it's the left ventricle.
On the next piece of furniture we had a oar for aorta
and a valve,
it was hitting a valve.
This is your aortic valve.
Now the word semilunar is in there as well.
If you need to add a picture of a moon to remember lunar,
semilunar then do that.
But for me, a aortic,
I automatically know semilunar valve.
Number 13, you had an oar.
That was for aorta.
Number 14, you had artwork for arteries.
15, you had a Caterpillar for capillaries.
I thought capillaries
and caterpillar, caterpillar sounded similar.
And then number 16, veins.
16 words in the correct order as they flow around the heart.
How do you memorize them on this diagram?
Honestly, I think once,
if you look at that diagram
you can draw a squiggly line
and memorize the pattern of that squiggly line.
And then if you have the words memorized
on your mind palace,
you should just be able to go in there
and label that squiggly line.
And that's how I would do it.
I would approach this by memorizing it
with the mind palace.
Memorizing a list of 16 words.
Then I would memorize a squiggly line
and I would just go back
and label that squiggly line using the mind palace
to help me out.
So if you like this video,
I do have a full course on this
called Black Belt Memory.
You can get it at the link down below.
And please give me some feedback.
Let me know what you thought.
But memorize 15
or 16 pieces of furniture.
And now here guys,
here's the beauty of this system.
I took a significant portion of this video
and explained to you what the mind palace is.
Well, you can use this for other things.
Now, you might wanna use different pieces of furniture
for different parts of the body or whatever.
But you get the idea here.
Hopefully you do.
So guys, this is an introduction to the mind palace.
If you would like a full course on the mind palace,
click the link down below
and you'll get my full Black Belt Memory course.
But practice this,
you should be able to memorize the blood flow to the heart.
I'll see you in the next lesson.