- Hey guys, welcome to this video
and my Kwik memory training tips.
My name's Ron White,
I'm a two time USA Memory Champion,
I used to hold the record
for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards
in the United States,
and these are my kwik memory training tips.
I've used these tips to memorize 7,000 words in sequence,
and even memorize the entire United States Constitution
word for word.
The first thing that I wanna share with you
in my kwik memory training tips
is, number one, focus.
You gotta be paying attention.
Now, that is so simple, isn't it?
I mean, it makes sense,
if you're not paying and attention,
you're not gonna be able to remember anything.
But there are things that we can do
to improve our attention.
A lot of people tell me, "Ron, I have brain fog,"
or, "I have ADD,"
or, "I can't focus."
Well, there are some things that you can do
to help yourself with this.
Number one, good nutrition and exercise.
Drink plenty of water,
take vitamin B, B12,
that'll give you some natural energy,
that's gonna help your focus.
A dehydrated brain can't focus,
and that's why water is so important,
but there are also other foods
that help your ability to focus,
spinach, blueberries,
those have antioxidants in 'em
that's gonna help your ability to focus.
Everyday, I take an omega-3 fish oil pill,
this is good for your brain,
it's gonna help your ability to focus.
Apples have something in 'em called acetylcholine,
this is beneficial to your memory,
pumpkin seeds are beneficial to your memory.
You have to be focused,
try this, the next time you pick up that book,
ask yourself, "What do I wanna learn out of this book?"
With that question, you are focusing your brain.
Read the back cover,
read the table of contents,
read the chapter summary,
and after you do those,
ask yourself, "What should I look for in this book?"
The back cover, the table of contents,
and the chapter summary are gonna tell you.
Before you meet somebody, the next time,
ask yourself as you're walking towards them,
right before they say their name,
"What is their name,
"What is their name, what is their name?"
That question will focus your brain,
a focused brain is my first kwik memory training tip.
My second kwik memory training tip
is you have to make the meaningless meaningful.
Let me say that again,
you have to make the meaningless meaningful.
If something doesn't mean anything to you,
if it has no context,
if it's just a random fact,
the odds of you remembering it
are decreased significantly.
But if it's meaningful to you,
if it makes sense to you,
the odds of you remembering
are going to be increased.
For example, if you don't know anything about baseball,
if you know nothing about baseball,
and you look at the box score,
the box score is the game summary,
and it's a bunch of numbers and columns,
if you look at that and it's meaningless to you,
you don't know what it means,
10 minutes later,
somebody asks you what was in the box score,
you're not gonna be able to tell 'em,
it was meaningless to you.
So what do you have to do
to make the meaningless meaningful?
Here's an example,
let's take the Spanish verb (speaking foreign language)
The Spanish verb (speaking foreign language)
means to be able to.
Well, that is kind of meaningless to you right now
if you don't speak Spanish.
So let's take the word (speaking foreign language)
and let's imagine a poor deer,
a deer that has no money
and he is not able to buy anything.
So you took the word (speaking foreign language)
and made it a poor deer,
to be able is what it means.
And you tell yourself the story,
this (speaking foreign language)
poor deer, poor deer,
is not able to buy anything.
You are making the meaningless meaningful.
In math, you have the order of operations,
parentheses, exponents, multiplication,
division, addition, subtraction.
That's the order of operations,
but that's so hard to remember,
so you've heard it before,
you've heard the saying,
please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.
You were taking the meaningless and making it meaningful.
My third kwik memory training tip
is go for a walk and talk.
Here's what I mean,
after you study information,
and maybe you study for 30 minutes or an hour,
get up and go for a walk.
When I was memorizing the United States' Constitutions,
I would go for walk and talks all the time.
This is what a walk and talk is,
have the information that you're studying in your hand,
but go for a walk and just talk about it,
talk to yourself.
Sometimes I would walk for two hours,
with the information in my hand I was studying,
and I would just talk about it,
talk through it, say what I was studying.
Number one, that gets it in my memory.
Number two, if I get stuck and I can't remember anything,
I have the information in my hand,
I can look at it.
And number three, what am I doing?
I'm getting my blood flowing,
I'm getting my oxygen going to my brain.
So when you go for these walk and talks,
not only are you reviewing,
you have the information in your hand,
but you're not reading it,
you're only using it if you get stuck,
but you're also exercising your body,
you're going to get in better shape.
And when your body is in shape,
your brain is in shape.
My fourth kwik memory training tip
is to chunk information.
I memorized everybody who died in the war in Afghanistan
from the United States military,
that's 2,400 people,
and I memorized their rank,
their first name and their last name.
As I was looking at that, 7,000 words,
a lot of times, I wanted to quit.
And when I looked at all the information,
I did wanna quit.
But I didn't let myself look at all the information,
I chunked it, 50 at a time.
I had taught a six-year-old little girl
how to memorize the 45 presidents of the United States,
and I just kept telling myself,
"Dude, you can do this,
"you're just doing 50 times what she did,"
and that was so helpful to me.
When you're looking at all the information
you have to study,
when you have the bar exam,
or the project management exam, or a medical exam,
or some type of test for history or science,
and you're looking at all this information,
and you're getting overwhelmed,
you're like, "Oh, my gosh,
"how am I gonna remember all this?"
People will tell me, all the time,
"Ron, I got five books to memorize
"and 20 PowerPoints to memorize."
No, you don't.
Today, you have one chapter to learn.
Tomorrow, you have one chapter to learn.
Chunk it, stop overwhelming yourself
by telling you you got five books to learn,
you don't, you're not doing yourself any good
by keep telling yourself that,
you're just stressing yourself out.
My fifth kwik memory training tip
is to use spaced repetition.
Spaced repetition is just going back and reviewing,
but it's doing it in a systematic way.
Every day after you learn,
at the end of the day, review what you learned.
The next morning when you get up,
before you learn new information,
review what you learned the day before.
Always use spaced repetition,
this is gonna help you.
And when doing spaced repetition,
don't look at the information, don't read it,
but see what you can recall.
And then the things you can't recall,
go back and look at 'em
and make a note or make a star,
"This was hard for me to memorize."
Then the next day, when you do your review,
start with the ones that are hard for you to memorize,
and then repeat the process,
star the ones that day that were hard for you to memorize,
make them stronger in your brain.
Spend time on the ones that are most difficult
for you to remember,
and then they will become easier,
then, eventually, less and less and less and less
Number six, the next kwik memory training tip
is to journal, is to write.
Write when you leave a class,
in the five to 10 minutes after a class,
this is gonna be the most crucial time,
you need to write down every single thing
that you can remember from that class, write it down.
This is gonna do a couple things.
Number one, that's when it's fresh in your mind,
and when you're going to remember the most.
But number two, you're creating notes
that you can go back and review later.
This does not mean
that you no longer take notes in class,
that's huge, you have to take notes in class.
But also, when you get out of class,
write what you remember,
it's gonna keep it fresh in your brain,
And my last kwik memory training tip
is to use the mind palace or the memory palace.
When I set the record
for the fastest to memorize
a deck of cards in the United States,
that was kwik, that was really, really kwik memory.
So one of my best kwik memory training tips
is to use the mind palace to get faster and faster.
Now, if you don't know what the mind palace is,
shame on you, you should've been subscribed to my channel
'cause, believe me, I'm talking about it
a lot on this channel.
So if you don't know what it is,
make sure you subscribe to this channel.
But let me give you a real kwik overview.
The mind palace is this,
you walk into your house
and on the first piece of furniture,
that's number one,
the next piece of furniture is number two,
the next piece of furniture is number three.
Then when you're studying your class materials,
you take the first thing that you want to remember,
you see it as a picture
and you imagine it interacting
with that first piece of furniture.
The second thing you wanna remember from your notes,
you turned it into a picture,
and imagine it interacting
with the second piece of furniture.
Then when you're taking your test,
you just go back and walk through your house,
your mind palace,
and you're able to remember what you studied.
If you want a real in-depth description of the mind palace
and how to use that as a kwik memory training tip,
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