Hey guys, Ron white here, two time USA memory champion. In this video, I'm going to talk about
the difference between a trained and an untrained memory. There's a saying out there, and it's been
around for decades, and it says there is no such thing as a bad memory. There's only an
untrained memory. And this is actually something that I believe and I subscribe to. I heard Kevin
Trudeau say it in the 1980s. There's no such thing as a bad memory, only an untrained memory.
Now this brings up the question, well, what's the difference between a trained memory and an
untrained memory? I've got eight points here that I believe is the differences between a
trained memory and an untrained memory. The first difference that I... By the way,
the first difference is just the... And this isn't going to be one of my eight, but just overall,
a trained memory is going to be able to memorize massive amounts of information,
and an untrained memory is going to struggle. Now, what are the differences that make up a
trained memory and an untrained memory? Number one, a trained memory thinks in pictures. A
trained memory sees pictures. Whenever I see a list of numbers on a piece of paper.
If I see the number 3.14 for pi, I don't see 3.14. I see a triangle because that's the image
for the number three for me, because a triangle has three sides, and 1-4, I think of gold because
of 14 carat gold. So I think of a triangle made out of gold for 3.14. A difference between a
trained and an untrained memory is a trained memory has learned to think in pictures.
A trained memory, when it meets somebody named Lisa, automatically thinks of a picture. I think
of the Mona Lisa. A trained memory when they meet somebody named Dave, they think of a picture,
a cave. A trained memory, when they meet somebody named Andrew, they think of ants,
drawing. Ants that drew. Ants, drew, Andrew. A trained memory thinks in pictures. That's
the first difference between a trained and an untrained memory. An untrained memory will see the
name Andrew or Lisa or Karen or Brian or 3.14159, and they just see the information. They're not
translating it into anything memorable. Second difference between a trained and an
untrained memory. Have you ever been in a car accident? Yeah. 10 years ago, 12, whatever. You
can probably tell me, "Ron, it was daytime. This is who was driving. This is where it occurred.
This is how it occurred. Here's all the details of it." Why can you tell me the details of every
moment of that car accident from 10 years ago, but you can't tell me everywhere you drove last week?
One was five days ago. One was 10 years ago. Action and emotion
cement things into your long term memory. A trained memory knows this. An untrained memory
does not know this. So a trained memory, well, when they have something they want to remember,
like they're reading a history book for a history test and they want to remember it, they'll make it
exciting. It's dull and it's boring to them, it's George Washington and all this stuff.
Well, they imagine they're reading a movie script, and they try to make it exciting. "Oh my gosh,
I'm reading this movie script, and this person is trying to do this." And they try to maybe
make it a little more spicy or a little bit more adventurous. They're trying to make it more action
and emotional, so they'll remember it. A trained memory will do that. A untrained memory won't.
The third difference between a trained memory and an untrained memory is review. A trained
memory will memorize something today, and then they'll wake up in the morning, and the first
thing they'll do is before they try to learn something else is they review what they learned
the day before. If you're skipping the review process, your recall is going to just diminish
over time. If you want to make it solid in your brain and strong in your brain, you must review.
Review is what a trained memory does. An untrained memory, "I'm going to try to memorize something
today, and I'm going to try to memorize something new tomorrow, and something new..." Review.
The fourth difference between a trained and an untrained memory. An untrained memory,
they meet somebody named Brian. He goes in their ear, the floor of their memory. They meet Steve,
in their ear, the floor of their memory. They read a business book, in their ear, the floor of their
memory. They read a history book, in their ear, the floor of their memory. They get a new email
password, in their ear, the floor of their memory. A new ATM password, in their ear, the floor of
their memory. They read another book, in their ear, the floor of their memory. They meet Steve,
in their ear, the floor of their memory. Now they've got all this data on the floor
of their memory. Now they see that person that they met and that person says, "Hey,
Ron, how you doing?" Their brain goes, "Oh my gosh. I know I know that person's name.
No, that's not it. No, that's not it. No, that's not it. No, that's not it. No, that's not it.
No that's... Hey, how you doing? I'm doing so good. No, that's not it. No, that's not it. No,
that's..." They drive home. What happens? "Hey." This is your mind talking to you,
the little person in your brain. "Hey, you want the name now? That was Andrew." "Oh,
I knew it was Andrew." The trained memory didn't have it in a location in their brain.
The trained memory, when they meet that person, they put it in a file cabinet.
They put the next one in a file cabinet. They put the next one in a file cabinet. So when they
need data, they just go back to their file. Now I'm not going to go into a long video here
explaining what a filing system is, but I'm going to tell you if you want to research it,
it's called the mind palace or the memory palace. It's where you attach what you want to remember
in locations in a room. It is wonderful. There are many memory systems, but I'll put a link down
below in the description of the mind palace. But that is one of the biggest differences
between a trained and an untrained memory. Number five, an untrained memory relies on rote
memorization. Rote memorization is where you just look at it over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And you drive yourself crazy,
crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Rote memorization will drive you crazy
because it's repetitive and there's no action. There's no emotion. There's no filing system.
It's just an untrained way to memorize. Number six, a trained memory will find what
time of day they memorize the best. I memorize in the morning best because my mind isn't tired.
I memorize the worst in the evening, so I don't try to memorize in the evening. I try to memorize
in the morning. My brain is trained. I know when to memorize, when I'm rest.
Number seven, a trained memory will organize the data before they memorize. They'll look at it and
they'll think, "Okay, I got 70 things I need to memorize here. So I'm going to need a mind palace
with about 70 locations. These 20 things I already know, so I don't need to memorize those. These 20
things I could memorize with acronyms. These 20, I'm going to use the mind..." They organize it
first. They look at it, they scan it. They see what they know, they see what they don't know.
They read it to get a feel for it. The first thing you should do before you memorize anything is read
it to see if you understand it. Understand it, and it will help you memorize it.
And number eight, a trained memory looks for patterns. A trained memory will look for patterns.
I memorized the United States Constitution. It's 4,500 words. And as I was memorizing this,
the first thing that I did is I read through the section that I wanted to memorize. I noticed, man,
there's some patterns here. One of the patterns is the word shall be is repeated over and over in the
Constitution. But also, the word shall without be is repeated over and over. Also the words
maybe. So I had shall be, shall, and maybe all scattered out. This was a pattern I picked up on.
And I knew that if I didn't have distinctive pictures for each one of those scenarios,
I'd get confused. So for me, every shall be was a sea shell covered with bees. Every shall was just
a sea shell with no bees. And every maybe was bees and mayonnaise. Maybe, may mayonnaise and bees.
I looked for patterns, something that I could say, "Okay, there's going to be a
lot of shall bes. There's going to be a lot of bes. There's going to be a lot of maybes."
Recently I was helping somebody memorize Bible verses. He said, "Ron, in the Bible,
sometimes it says increase greatly. And then other times it says greatly increase. And this
is a pattern that these two patterns repeat over and over. How do I not get them confused?" I said,
"Well for greatly increase, use a GI like GI Joe. And he's greatly increasing. He's growing.
That you know, if it's a GI, you know it's greatly increased." For IG, I couldn't think
of anything. And he said, "How about Instagram?" I thought, "Great. You're looking at an Instagram,
and it's growing." When you see Instagram, you know it's increased greatly. When you see a GI,
you know it's greatly increased. And both of them are expanding and growing.
But a trained memory will look for patterns. They'll say, "Oh, this repeats over and over
again." Somebody was recently... The guy who's memorizing the Bible, there's a thing in the
Bible called the Sermon on the Mount. Well, if you're memorizing the Sermon on the Mount,
you're going to notice a pattern. Blessed are thee, blessed are thee, blessed are thee. It's
a phrase that repeats over and over again. I said, "Hey, why don't we use a baseball bat
for the acronym blessed are thee, B-A-T, bat." And we use that one picture to represent those three
words. And it's three words that repeat over and over so many times. A trained mind will
recognize patterns and create quick solutions for them to cut down the memory time.
One final thing is if a word could be used as an acronym, if you want to memorize the Great Lakes,
you have Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. You make that an acronym HOMES.
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. You take the five Great Lakes you want to memorize,
use the first letter, create a word HOMES, and you imagine a house, and you got the Great Lakes.
There is a difference between a trained and an untrained memory. And a trained memory
is going to be able to memorize the United States Constitution,
4,500 words. An untrained memory can't memorize 20 words, and it's going to take them all day to get
those 20 words if they do get it. A trained memory could do 20 words in 60 seconds. And you will
have less stress if you have a trained memory, you'll be able to learn anything faster. You'll
get better grades. You will advance in your career. You should have a trained memory.
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