Hey guys, my name is Ron White.
I'm a two time USA memory champion.
In this video, I'm going to give you my tips on how to memorize the major points of a book.
If you like this video, after you watch it, click the link down below and get my Black
Belt Memory Course, it is the world's most comprehensive memory course and I have a link
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Now let's dive into it.
How do you memorize the book?
First of all, I'm not going to teach you how to memorize it word for word, at least not
on this video, because I don't think it's really that valuable.
People always tell me, "Ron, how do you memorize a book word for word?
Why in the world would you want to put yourself through that?
Why would you want to do that?"
There's almost no benefit to that unless it's a poem or poetry or a religious book or something
like that.
For most things, you just want to remember the main ideas of the book.
So I might give you tips on how to do that.
Maybe you want to memorize the table of contents, or maybe you want to memorize one idea from
each chapter.
The system that I'm about to share with you will enable you to do that.
If you watch this video all the way through, you will memorize the seven points of one
of the best selling books of the last 50 years.
So here we go.
How do you memorize the key points of a book?
In order to memorize anything?
You need a place to put the information.
For example, if you take your keys out of your pocket and you hang them on a wall on
a key hook near your door, you always know that your keys are hanging on that key hook.
And when you need to go to your car, you go and you get your keys.
Your memory works the same way.
You need hooks to put stuff on that you can go back to later and get the information off
of it.
So I'm going to give you a few hooks here that you can use to memorize the chapters
of a few books.
Let's create a hook for number one.
For a hook for the number one, I use a pencil.
Why would a pencil be number one?
Because it looks like a pencil.
A pencil is a straight line.
So one is a pencil.
My number two hook is a duck's neck.
Why would I use a duck's neck for number two?
Because a duck's neck is kind of curved like a number two, the shape.
Number three, my hook is a triangle.
I actually think of the pyramids.
Why?
A triangle has three sides.
My hook for number three is a triangle.
We're just going to go up to number seven because that will prove my point here.
Number four.
My hook for number four is a box.
Why?
A box has four corners on each side.
My hook for number five is a star.
Why would that be?
A star has five points on a star.
My hook for number six is an elephant.
Why would that be?
Well, this takes a little bit of imagination, but if you see an elephant and that his trunk
is sticking out, it kind of looks like a number six on its side.
You've got to have a crazy imagination, or you've got to be a little crazy, and I'm both
number seven.
My image for number seven, my hook for number seven is dice.
Why?
Opposite sides of dice always add up to seven.
There's a two on top, there's a five on bottom.
If there's a three on top, there's a four on the bottom.
Opposite sides of dice always equals seven.
So we'll stop there.
That's my first seven hooks.
One is a pencil, two is a duck, three is a pyramid, four is a box, five as a star, six
as an elephant and seven is dice.
If you didn't get that, I'll put all seven down in the description of this video, or
just watch the video again.
Now, how do you take these seven hooks and memorize the first seven points of any book
or the first seven chapters of any book?
This is what you do.
You take the first point from the book that you want to remember, and you imagine it attached
to the pencil.
We're going to take Stephen Covey's book.
The seven Habits of Highly Effective People that was written at least 30 years ago, because
I remember reading it 30 years ago.
And we're going to memorize these seven points by attaching them to these hooks or these
pegs.
The first one is be proactive.
That's the first point.
So for be proactive, I see a bumblebee and he is a pro athlete.
He's a baseball player.
So number one is a pencil.
I see a bumblebee and he's a pro athlete.
He grabs that pencil and he uses is as a bat.
So see a bumblebee holding a bat, be proactive.
But the bat is actually the pencil, right?
Because the pencil represents one.
That's habit number one.
Number two.
What is our hook for number two?
It's a duck's neck.
Stephen Covey's second point was begin with the end in mind.
So I want you to imagine this duck and he's looking at the end of the finish line, and
he's running towards the end of the finish line.
The duck is beginning with the end in mind.
Go back and review one.
On the pencil, we had a bumblebee and he was proactive.
Number one, be proactive.
Number two, a duck.
The duck is looking at the end.
He is beginning with the end in mind.
Number three.
Habit number three is put first things first.
Put first things first.
That was the title of that chapter.
So I want you to imagine the pyramid and on the pyramid, I want you to see somebody standing
up there with a gold medal and they are first place.
Top of the pyramid.
First things first.
What was on the pencil?
A bumblebee and he was being a pro.
Be proactive.
What was on the duck's neck?
He was looking at the end of the finish line.
He was beginning with the end in mind.
What was on the pyramid, number three?
A gold medal on first place.
Put first things first.
Number four.
What's your image for number four?
It's a box.
One is this.
What he wrote as habit number four in his book was think win-win.
So I want you to open up this box and when you open it up there's ribbons and balloons
and it says, "You won."
Number four is think win-win.
Let's go back.
Number one, pencil.
What was the image?
A bumblebee, and he was a pro.
Be proactive.
Number two.
What was it?
It was a duck's neck.
What was the duck doing?
Beginning with the end in mind.
Habit number two.
Habit number three is a pyramid and a gold medal.
Put first things first.
What was your image for number four, your hook for number four?
It was a box.
What was in the box?
You were winning.
Think win-win.
Number five.
What's your hook for number five?
A star, right?
Number five, seek first to understand.
So I want you to see a star and you're looking under it.
You're looking under the star.
You're trying to understand.
Habit number five is seek first to understand, instead of trying to get others to understand
you.
Go back to number one.
The pencil, be proactive.
Two, the duck's neck, begin with the end in mind.
Three, the pyramid.
Put first things first.
Your first place.
Number four, the box.
You open it up, you win.
Think win-win.
Number five, the star.
You're trying to understand it.
Seek first to understand.
Number six.
Point number six, was the elephant, right?
The word is this.
Synergize, synergize.
For that, it kind of sounds like energize for me so I see an elephant and he's, you
shoot him up with electricity and he's energized.
Synergize for number six.
So here's the thought process.
You think number six, you think elephant because it's your hook.
Then you think it's getting shot on electricity.
Energized for synergize.
That's the thought process we're going through here.
Last one, number seven.
So we think of seven, then we think of our hook, dice.
And on dice, the point that he made habit number seven was sharpen the saw.
Sharpen the saw was the seventh point that you need to memorize in that book.
So what do you do?
You imagine the dice and you're sawing it in half.
Reminds you to sharpen the saw.
What does sharpen the saw mean?
It means to always be learning, always be educating yourself and growing.
You're sharpening your own saw, which your saw is your mental toolbox here.
Let's go back and review.
Number one.
What was your hook?
It was a pencil.
And this is Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
You can do this with any book.
You can do this with any book, open up your favorite book and write out the 10 things
that you want to remember, or at least the first seven things that you want to remember.
Write them out.
"These are the seven things I want to remember."
Take point number one and attach it to the pencil.
Point number two, attach it to the duck.
Point number three, attach it to the pyramid.
Point number four, attach it to the box.
Point number five, attach it to the star.
Point number six, attach it to the elephant.
Point number seven, attach it to the dice.
What we just did was Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
So finally in review, what are the seven habits?
Number one was a pencil.
Be proactive.
Number two was dice.
Begin with the end in mind.
You're looking at the end of the finish line.
The duck is.
Number three, a pyramid.
You're first place, right?
You're first place.
Put first things first.
Number four, a box.
"Ah, you won."
Think win-win.
Number five, a star.
"I want to understand this."
Seek first to understand.
Number six, an elephant getting energized.
Synergize.
Number seven, dice.
A saw's cutting it.
Sharpen the saw.
I'm going to put the seven habits to Stephen Covey's book down below in the description.
So if you didn't catch them, if you didn't memorize them, look at the description below.
I'll also put the seven words that we...
Our first seven hooks.
If you didn't get that, do that.
Let's wrap this up with a story about sharpening the saw.
It's Stephen Covey's last point in his book.
Let's imagine there's two people and they both have a goal to chop down a bunch of trees.
One young guy, 25 years old, strong guy that he gets a saw and he starts shopping down
the wood.
There's an older guy, about 50 years old, my age.
They're having a contest, who can chop down the most wood.
The older guy sits down and he spends the first 30 minutes sharpening his saw.
The young kid's like, "That guy's crazy.
I'm going to win this contest easy," and he's chopping down trees.
The old guy knows something.
If he spends 30 minutes to sharpen his saw, he's going to actually win this competition.
He sits down, spends 30 minutes and then he starts chopping and boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom passes up the young guy.
Now I tell that story because it makes the old guy the hero and I'm the old guy, but
it certainly could be reversed as well.
But here's the moral of the story.
Take time to sit down and sharpen your saw.
And that was the last point that we just talked about in this book.
How do you sharpen your saw?
You sharpen your saw by learning memory systems.
Maybe.
There are plenty of ways, but that's the way I like to do it.
If you want to learn my memory system and sharpen your saw and learn so you can always
learn faster, get my Black Belt Memory Course.
It's in the description of this video.
There's a link down there and I think that you'll really love it.
I have given you a little excerpt of it and now you know my images for one through seven,
but if you want to get my images for one through 1000, it's in my Black Belt Memory Course.
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