- Is memory training too much work?
Is it worth the work that you have to put
into memory training to get good at it?
In other words, is it gonna pay any results?
Are you going to be able to really learn quicker?
Are you gonna be able to memorize faster?
It's gonna help you in your studying.
Is learning and memory system worth it
or is it too much work?
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.
I was recently coaching someone
on how to have a better memory.
She was studying for a medical exam test and she said,
"Ron, okay, I get what you're saying,
"but it just sounds like a lot more work
"than just memorizing the information."
In other words, this is what she was saying.
I have this information that I need to memorize.
You're telling me that I need to create a memory system
and I'm gonna have to create
all these components of the system,
these two or three things.
Well, these two or three things plus the information,
that's more information than just memorizing the data.
Initially, you're right.
Initially, it's more work.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
Initially, it's more work,
but once you have invested the work
and you invested a little bit of time
in building a memory system.
I'm gonna suggest you that in the long run
it's going to accelerate the learning process.
You'll be able to memorize more.
You'll be able to learn faster.
You'll be able to understand faster.
Example on this.
And you've, might've heard this story before.
I'm out here on my land and I got trees all around.
Let's imagine there's a contest right now
between two people.
Person number one, a young guy
and he starts chopping down the wood.
We're gonna see who can chop down the wood the fastest.
You got a young guy out there
and he's just chopping out a bunch of wood.
You got an older guy over here,
maybe 60 years old.
And I say, go.
Young guy starts chopping down the trees.
Old guy start sharpening his axe.
He's just sharpening that axe.
And you're looking at the old guy and you're like,
"Dude, get going.
"This young guy's gonna beat you."
He's like, "I got it.
"I got it."
He takes 30 minutes and sharpens his axe.
Then guess what happens?
He begins, boom, boom, boom, chopping down trees.
And he does it at a much more rapid pace than the young guy.
And he wins the competition.
Just because you don't start chopping wood right away
doesn't mean you're gonna lose the competition.
If you take that time to sharpen your axe,
to sharpen your saw
because it's gonna enable you to chop faster
and cut quicker.
Memory training is the exact same way.
Yes, you have to learn a system.
You have to learn a formation
and build these file cabinets in your brain.
But what you're doing is is you're sharpening your axe.
You're sharpening your saw.
You're creating images for numbers, images for words,
and places to store them.
That other person's over here just memorizing away.
They just started and they don't have a plan on memory.
They just go after it.
You're over here, creating that memory system.
No big deal.
And then once you start memorizing, look out.
Look out
cause your brain is sharp.
You've devoted the time.
Memory training is not too much work.
Initially it is.
Initially you're gonna have to sit down
and you're gonna have to think okay,
these are my pictures for numbers
or this is the mind palace.
I'm gonna master it.
If you don't know what the mind palace is,
I'll put a description down in the comments,
the video description below.
I think it is the best memory system out there.
But it's basically a system where you visualize information
in locations around a room
or on a piece of land or whatever.
Yes, you have to sit down and master the mind palace.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
You have to do that.
But if you'll spend a little bit of time upfront,
it's gonna pay dividends in return.
Here's another example.
You go to the grocery store today
and I say you can't take a shopping cart.
You can't take a basket.
Just go around the store
and anything you can carry, you can buy.
Well, you get about seven or eight things in your hand
and then you'd go to the cash register and you buy it.
But if you had a cart, a basket,
you might be able to get 50 items.
What is the difference?
The cart was holding the information or the groceries.
So you could get it to the checkout stand.
You can put a lot more on a cart
than you can carry with your arms.
Your memory is the same way.
You can carry five, six things in your working memory,
but if you have a cart, a memory system,
you can dump it all in there.
It takes a little bit of time to build that cart.
Here's another example.
Today I went to the car dealership.
I had to get my oil changed on my car
and I also had two holes in my tire.
So I sat there for two hours at the car dealership.
And as I waited for my car,
they patched the holes on my tire and they changed the oil.
Let me ask you this.
When you own a car, what do you have to do?
You have to get the oil changed.
You have to put gas in it.
You have to make car payments.
If the holes get patched.
If the tires get a hole in them,
you have to patch the tires.
You have to maintenance the car.
So why would you do it if it takes all this work?
Well, you do that because if you want to go somewhere,
you can get in the car and drive 200 miles
and it's not gonna wear you out.
You maybe drive 200 miles in a day.
Easy.
But if you were just walking there,
could you walk 200 miles in a day?
There is no way.
However, to have a car, you have to put oil in it.
You have to change the oil.
You have to put gas in it.
Yeah, it takes a little bit of work.
It takes more work than just walking there.
And you can just start walking right now,
but all that maintenance in the long run is gonna pay off.
2009, I memorized a deck of cards in a minute and 27 seconds
at the USA Memory Championship.
Do you think I could have memorized 52 cards
in 87 seconds without a system?
I'll tell you right now, I could not have.
I memorized the United States Constitution last year,
4,543 words.
Could I have done that without a memory system?
I could not have.
But I had these systems built.
Once you build the systems,
you can use them over and over again
for the rest of your life.
The work is all front-loaded.
It's done at the beginning.
So take some time, learn memory systems and
you're gonna see some rapid,
rapid acceleration on your ability to memorize.
You're sharpening the axe.
You're carrying in the shopping cart through the store.
If you want to learn what the mind palace is,
I have some videos down in the description,
but also have a Black Belt Memory course.
When you get a Black Belt in karate,
when you get a Black Belt in memory
and learn how to master this.
I'll put a link to my Black Belt Memory course
in the description.
There's a free gift there for you
at that blackbeltmemory.com website as well.
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Booyah.
Go memorize.