Ron White answers a memory question - 'Can you use the same files over and over!
If so, will you confuse the data?
Hey guys, Ron White founder of Brain Athlete.com I want to answer the most common questions
that I get.
If you followed my memory training or my memory system at all, you know I teach you a method
that I certainly did not invent.
It's been around several thousand years.
It's noticed by a couple of different names, the Roman room, the method of loci, the journey
system all these to describe the same thing.
It is simply a way of memorizing a map of your house and then using that map of your
house to memorize data.
I am not going to the explanation here if you want an explanation of what it is you
don't have heard of it before, I have links at the end of this video and in the video
description below.
Click on those.
I am going to proceed this if you have already understand the method of loci or the Roman
room, whatever you call it.
The question is this, are you able to use your files over and over again for different
material and if so why don't you confuse that material?
For example, I got an email this week and somebody asked me Ron if I am trying to memorize
a poem and I used my files to memorize the poem, two days later can I memorize another
poem or can I memorize the Presidents of United States today and then use those same files
tomorrow to give a speech or how to increase my sales and not confused material.
The answer is this yes, you can tell me to use your files.
The same files that never change over and over and over again and you will not confuse
the data.
There are two reasons why?
The first reason is this as long as the subject matter is different, you are not going to
confuse it.
For eg, you use your files today to memorize the presidents of the United States, then
tomorrow you use your files to memorize the periodic table of elements, the same file,
the same furniture.
The next day, you use your files to memorize a poem.
Then the next day you use your files to memorize a speech and had increase your sales.
So in four days, if you use the same files, four different times or four different topics.
The next week you are going to take your history text and it says who is the fifth president
of United States.
You are going to jump to your fifth file in your house and you have to write down James
Munroe.
However, if you have used those same files to give a presentation on how to increase
your sales, when you are giving that presentation, you are not going to be in a front of a group
and say guys the fifth point to increase your sales is James Munroe.
You're just not going to do it.
You are not going to confuse the data why?
Because the data is different.
Presidents of United States, periodic table of elements, a speech, a poem is all different.
So you can use your files over and over again, you are not going to confuse the material.
However, let's say you want to memorize a 100 digit number today and then four hours
later you want to memorize another 100 digit number.
There is a high probability you can confuse the two lists why?
Because the lists are random and they are so similar.
The rule of the thump is this.
If the subject matter is different, you can use your same files and not confuse it.
If it is very similar or random like a string of numbers, use a different set of files,
so you don't confuse it.
There is a second principle here though it is very important to understand whenever a
construction worker builds a building, they put the wooden forms down and then they pour
the cement into that wooden forms.
The cement hardens.
It become hard as a rock literally they take the wooden forms away and the concrete blocks
stands there solid as a rock.
Your memory is the same way.
Whatever you want to recall is the poem, the speech, the president, the periodic table
of element.
That is the concrete.
You pour that into the wooden forms, which is the files.
Once you pour the presidents of United States, the poem or the speech into your files and
you review it and you review it and you review it and you review it.
Eventually you reviewed it so many times that you just know it and you no longer need your
files, those wooden forms to hold the information in your brain.
So just like with the concrete, you take the wooden forms away and the concrete stands
there.
Just like with the memory system, you take the forms, the files away and you just know
the material.
So let's say you do have several information you want to memorize.
You have a twenty line point, you put it into your files, you review it today and you review
tomorrow, you review the next day, you review it in a month, you review it in six months,
you just know it now.
Take the files away, use those files for another poem even though it is similar material, you
will still be able to use it with no confusion because you are really not even using those
files anymore for that poem.
Your files which is there to hold something in your memory and totally becomes solid knowledge.
My name is Ron White, founder of Brain Athlete.com.
Send me your questions on memory and I look forward to answer all and I look forward to
hearing about your success.