�play that Simon memory game where you have to memorize the colors in a specific sequence?
Red, yellow, blue, and green. How many do you get? Maybe 7 or 8, 10 or 12 in a sequence?
I'm going to show you how to memorize 100 colors in sequence, no joke. Check this out.
Okay. Before I teach you how to memorize the colors in this game, I'm going to give you
a memory test and I want you to memorize these words in the order that I give them to you.
The first word that I want you to memorize is roses. So I want you to see on your head
a bunch of roses growing out, a bunch of flowers and roses coming out of your head. The second
word that I want you to remember is a banana. Imagine you're shoving a banana up this nose
and maybe you're pulling it out of this nose, putting a banana in your nose. Now in your
mouth, I want you to imagine grass. And you're eating grass. You're picking grass and you're
eating grass. On your ribs I want you to imagine ocean water. The ocean water is right up here
on your ribs, and it's getting hard to breathe, and you're trying to stand above the ocean
water. Ocean water on your ribs. On your liver, I want you to imagine grass growing out of
your liver. Imagine all the grass is growing out, and you cut that grass. Grass growing
out of your liver. Real quick review. Roses on the top of your head -- roses, flowers,
smell them. In your nose a banana. In your mouth, what were you eating? Grass, chewing
on grass. On your ribs, ocean water. And right here on your liver, more grass. Now, one down
on your hip joint, I want you to imagine more ocean water. Imagine ocean water shooting
out of your hip joints. All right, now I want you to imagine your knees are growing out
bananas. And bananas are coming out of your knees, and you reach down there and you scoop
all those bananas up. Maybe a monkey comes by and grabs the bananas off your knees. The
next one, on your shins, I want you to imagine roses again and roses -- you're walking through
roses. And those roses are all around your shins and all around the bottom part of your
legs down there. Look down there and see the roses. Now the next one, on your feet I want
you to imagine you're walking into the ocean. Feel the ocean water going through your toes;
feel the cool water of the ocean on your feet. Now on the last one, I want you to look at
the ground, and I want you to see roses, roses all over the floor, roses all around you.
All right. Those last five that I gave you, you had water shooting out of your hip joints;
you had bananas on your knees; on your shins you had roses, roses growing all out of your
shins; on your feet, it was the water; and remember, the last one was roses again. So
pause the video now and see how many of those you can remember, starting at the top, going
all the way down to the bottom, from the top of your head to the floor. So how many did
you recall? Did you get all ten of them? This is exactly how you could beat the Simon memory
game.
What do I mean? Well, you have four colors: red, blue, green, and yellow. But to remember
a color, to really remember it, we created substitute pictures for the colors: roses
for red, ocean for blue, grass for green, and a banana for yellow. So now whenever these
colors light up, instead of seeing the colors, you are thinking of the picture to remember.
And that's going to help you remember it a lot better. But you need to take one more
step. You need to store that picture in a location. In this video we just used our body.
We have roses on the top of our head; so that would have been red. The next color that lit
up might have been yellow, so that's why we put bananas right here. The next color that
lit up might have been green, so that's why we had grass in our mouth. The next color
that lit up, if that was blue, we would have seen ocean water on our ribs. If the next
color that lit up was green, we saw grass on our liver, blue for ocean on our hip joint,
on our kneecap yellow for banana, roses on our shins for red, blue on our feet for ocean,
and roses red on the ground.
So whenever you're playing this game, if you have pictures for the colors, then all you
need to do is take and store these pictures somewhere in your memory. Now I really wouldn't
recommend that you use your body every time you play this game, because really you're
only going to be limited to ten colors. Instead what I would do is I would use pieces of furniture
in your house. This is a technique known as the Mind Palace method. If you have 10 or
15, or 20 or 30, or even 50 pieces of furniture memorized, then whenever the color is lit
up red, you think roses. And you put roses on that first piece of furniture, mentally,
in your house. When the next color lights up, maybe it's green. So you think "grass,"
and you see grass growing out of the next piece of furniture in your house. This is
known as the Mind Palace method and this is how you could really get crazy good at this
memory game. But it's not just getting good at this memory game. It's actually improving
your memory and learning the skill that's going to help you with a lot of other things.
I've said it a million times: Brain games are fun; memory games are fun. But if you're
just playing the game and you're not learning any memory skills with the game, it's really
not doing you any good. You need to learn memory skills along with these memory games.
So click the link right here to learn my Mind Palace method or click the link below. You'll
learn the Mind Palace method, and then you can apply it to so many other things, including
beating this memory game.
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