How could you do it? How could you memorize the entire Bible?
So there's two primary ways that I think you could do it. I was recently hired by
a guy. He went on my website and he hired me to coach him to memorize the entire Bible.
By the way, he has my memory course, Black Belt Memory. If you click to the link down below,
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Belt Memory Course. That's really a great place to start. He has the Black Belt Memory Course.
He emailed me and he said, "Ron, can you coach me to memorize the entire Bible?"
I'm coaching him right now, and as we are doing our coaching, I said,
"What's your current method?" Because he memorized the first 16 chapters of Genesis already. Let me
say that again. He's memorized the first 16 chapters of Genesis word for word already.
I said, "Dude, I'm impressed. I am impressed. You've memorized more than me and I'm your coach."
And this may or may not be him. He is a great guy by the way. Great, great guy. How did you do this?
He said, "Well," he said, "I was Googling around and I found a strategy by actors
where they will take their lines and then they'll get a piece of paper and they'll write the first
letter of each word of the line on a piece of paper. Then they read the first letter of each
word. Then they look away and try to say it. Then they read the first letter of each word again.
Then they look away and try to say it." And somehow this, and I have heard other
people say this too, but he was the first one that introduced it to me.
Somehow this works. Let's do an example here. It's a verse we all have probably heard John 3:16,
"For God so loved the world that he gave as one and only son that whosoever believes in
him shall not perish, but have eternal life." So using this strategy, I would get out of a
piece of paper and I would write F for for, G for God, S for so, L for loved, T for the,
W for world, T for that, H for E, G for forgave, H for his, O for one, and a O for only, and
S for son, and so on. Then I would look at that and I would just look at the letters and somehow
this condenses it in your memory. And your memory is able to fill in the gaps.
You ever on Facebook and you just see a bunch of letters. And it says, "If you can read this,
you're a genius," and it's kind of a bunch of nonsense and misspelled words, but your brain
somehow translates it all into the correct spelling and you read it. I think it's kind
of that concept there. You're looking at the first letter, but since you're familiar with the verse,
I think a key to this is you need to read the verse once or twice and get familiar with it
and then write it out. But then you would look at it and you're just looking at the first letters,
F G S L T W T H G. And you read it and then you look away. "For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only son." And you say the verse. Then you look back, if you missed it,
then you do it again. And you do it. This is a memory technique that I believe
can accelerate your learning of Bible verses. Just try it and see if it works for you. This is how he
memorized the first 16 chapters of Genesis. I think the flaw with this, if there is a flaw,
is you do still need to hold it in your memory somehow.
I mean, you've got it as let's say you memorize Genesis 1:1, now you want to go to Genesis 1:2.
I do think there's a way you need to kind of store that in a location in your memory.
And this is where the method that I use to memorize is in play. It's called the
Memory Palace or the Mind Palace. And it's where you use a room to store data.
So here in this room, our number one let's say is this window right here. Our number two is
the TV screen. Our number three, you can't see it, but is a window. Our number four is a bench.
And our number five is the microphone right here. Let's just, let's just say that is. So 1, 2, 3, 4,
5. This is our five locations. What you would do is in your house, you would pick five locations
in your living room five in your bedroom, five in your bathroom, five in your kitchen, you would see
your Bible versus on these locations. So if you use the abbreviation method, "For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only son. Whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have
everlasting life," you would see that picture. You would memorize the words using the abbreviation
method, but you would see that entire picture taking place on your number one location.
So I would look there and I would see somebody believing in the Son and they have eternal life.
Maybe they're floating up to heaven or whatever that picture looks like for me. But I would attach
that image to my number one location. Then I would memorize the second verse and maybe it's with the
abbreviation method again. And I would see that picture taking place on my number two location.
I would see the next image taking place on my number three location. Then when I review you
think back to this room, ah, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son."
And then you go around the room. This is the Mind Palace.
I want to be very clear, these are two distinct techniques. The first technique is where you're
just using the abbreviation. You're writing the abbreviation, you're looking at it and then you're
looking away. That looking away is very crucial. You look at it, you look at the letters and then
you look away. The looking away is actually where the memorizing is going on. Your brain is
assimilated and it's working on it. It's an active recall. Okay. So look away once you got it right,
I do believe you're still going to need to use the Mind Palace where you store the data.
Now, the other way is just to use the Mind Palace. It's to take the words, "For God so
loved the world that he gave us one and only son," create a picture for that and see it right there.
So you're skipping the initial stage. You might not need the initial stage. I've never used the
initials of words, ever to memorize anything. Well, I can't say that. I've used acronyms
before to memorize things, but I most commonly just go directly to the Mind Palace technique.
But these are two strategies here. If you want to get my Black Belt Memory Course,
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Tell me what your favorite Bible verse is in the comments. Tell me how much of the Bible
you've memorized or how much verses you've memorized. Tell me what you like to memorize.
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