this is the second video I've done one
of my favorite authors Mark Twain and
how he taught memory training techniques
hello
really what's that I have a package I'm
on it
I gotta be honest with you I know what
this package is it is a book written by
Mark Twain if you've been following my
channel you know I love old memory books
book was written a long time ago but
this is not an old copy of it that's why
my excitement isn't the same this is a
reprint
Oh drumroll The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn what I bought this book
not because it's a memory book but
because it was written by Mark Twain
Mark Twain he fell in love with memory
training after he took a memory course
born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835
Huckleberry Finn I'll read this later
just for fun but in this book Harper's
monthly magazine published in 1914 how
to make history dates stick by Mark
Twain in this book he taught his kids
how to memorize the Kings and the Queens
of England and in my last video I showed
you how he did that by mapping out
locations on his farm I'll put the the
link to that in the description but
there's another thing that he taught his
kids how to do he wanted to teach them
how to memorise the Kings and the Queens
of England by using the inside of their
house which is very similar to what we
do in the mind Palace but he definitely
did it a different way here I'm gonna
explain it to you exactly as he taught
it to his kids and exactly how they did
it and then I'm gonna tell you the pros
and the cons of this there's some things
I like about this and there are some
things that I don't like about this but
let's get started so the first thing
that he does is he says draw a two inch
by two inch square draw a whale to
represent William because they both
start with W and then write the years
1066 to 1087 and write 21 years
underneath it he writes take your pen
now
twenty-one pieces of white paper each
two inches square and we will do the 21
years of the conquerors reign well it's
good for William because it starts with
a WM poor William well whales are so big
and he was such a big character in
English history two inches by two inches
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we draw this picture 21 times because he
served 21 years by drawing the same
picture over and over and again it's
gonna ingrain it in your memory now we
have 21 pieces because he served for 21
years just writing it over and over will
help you remember that and draw in your
mind thinks and pictures so you pick C
of a picture of a whale to remind you of
the name William so he's using a lot of
the same stuff that I use seeing
pictures but I normally don't ride them
out but again we're looking and we're
exploring different methods and Mark
Twain right now is giving me a different
method I'm gonna keep doing this keep
going through this for each one the next
person who roamed was william ii and he
reigned for 13 years so he gives us a
picture to draw and we draw this picture
13 times on blue paper because he served
for 13 years
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and well that's gonna have to be good
enough hey what's up you know what I'm
doing I am reading the book by Mark
Twain he's teaching me how to memorize
the Kings and the Queens of England and
what I'm doing is is for every camera
Queenie for example Henry served 24
years so I've cut out 24 squares and
then I drew a picture of Henry ahem for
Henry for Richard the lion-hearted I
drew a lion so for every one of the
kings and queens he had me draw a
different picture to help me remember
the name of the years they served and
how the next thing I gotta I gotta put
these on my wall and the order that they
serves it's gonna be kind of cool yeah
come on over now the next thing that he
says that you do is you get a wall in
your house and you tape these squares on
the wall in order
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so it probably looked something similar
to this now let's go talk about what I
like about this method and what I don't
like about this method so this is one
way Mark Twain suggested that we
memorize the kings and queens of England
what do I like about it I like that it's
very visual you can see the map and
whenever you see more squares you know
they served more years and the more you
see that the more it's gonna ingrained
in your memory another thing I like
about it is that he drew pictures for
Richard the lion-hearted
he drew a lion William he drew a whale
for Henry he drew a head my picture for
Henry is also a head so I think that's
kind of cool me and Mark Twain had the
same picture so I like the pictures I
liked it you can see it on a map and get
a timeline in your head I like that
every time you walk past that spot in
your hallway when you come in the house
it is a reminder to you to review when
you leave and you walk by that wall it's
a reminder to you to review I think the
work you put into it
also gonna help your memory and let me
read you something that you wrote in
here this will make the walls
interesting and instructive and really
worth something instead of just being
flat things to hold the house together
it was a bit of a comedian but he's
right there you're you're making use of
the walls and it's more than just
decoration for your house or something
to hold up your roof now what do I not
like about this well instead of writing
out ten squares to remember ten years I
think I would rather just have an image
for the number-10 something to remind me
of the number ten instead of having 56
squares to remember Henry the third I
would probably just come up with a
picture that reminds me of the number 56
that's how I would do it
seeing fifty-six squares there I guess
is a good visual and every now and then
it might not hurt to do it this way it
just wouldn't be my first choice my
first choice would be to use the mind
Palace which I talk about a lot in my
videos I'll put a link
in the description as always so this was
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Mark Twain used places in a yard to to
memorize this same information I'll put
a link to that in the description you
might want to check that out
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this Mark Twain book and I'm going to
look forward to doing a lot more old
memory books for you see you on the next
video
it's kind of cool though to look at that
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