5 Day Memory Mastery: Learn to Memorize Anything With Ease

hey there my name is Jonathan levy and I'm going to be your instructor in this all new first-of-a-kind five day memory mastery challenge if this is the first time we're meeting allow me to take a quick moment to share with you my story and why I'm so excited for you to be here growing up learning was really challenging for me for the first part of my education I was the class clown completely unable to sit still I was left feeling that I was not as bright as other kids which led to low self-esteem social problems and years of severe depression for the latter years in high school and college I had to be heavily medicated on prescription stimulants just to get through school and succeed like other students did every day I would pop my pills lock myself in my bedroom and work into the late hours of the night trying to catch up and understand what others had learned that day in class when I was accepted to one of the world's top MBA programs a condensed curriculum in Singapore and France I knew that something had to change luckily it was at that time that I met two experts in accelerated learning memory and speed-reading who agreed to take me on as a private client for an intensive six-week training program where I completely relearned how to learn the rest as they say is history my peers would constantly ask me for explanations of how I managed to do the things I routinely did how did I read so fast how did I remember so much that's why in 2013 I decided to partner with my foreign mentors apply my accelerated learning skill set towards understanding the online education space and released the first-ever course on what I called super learning I could have never predicted what would happen next less than five years later my team and I are proud to have over a hundred fifty thousand students in 203 countries and territories a dozen or so courses on aspects of leading a better life to published books and over 2.2 million podcast downloads it's been a wild ride but we are nowhere near reaching our goal you see my mission in life is to empower over 1 million people worldwide to live their best lives by teaching them how to learn more effectively and that's why here with you we are excited to announce something we've never tried before a condensed 5-day memory mastery course over the next five days we will be taking your memory from zero to superhero based on proven neuro scientific principles here's our agenda for the rest of the week today we're going to set some goals an important part of maintaining your motivation and measuring your success throughout the course then we're going to get a baseline test of your memory to see how much room we have for improvement finally I'm going to ask you to help me with a weird neuro scientific experiment something that we've never tried before to test just how quickly we are able to supercharge your memory by tomorrow we're gonna look at the brain and understand what neuro scientists know about memory and how we can use it to our advantage on day three I'm going to teach you the single most important and powerful enhancement you can make to your memory you'll be learning the basis for the exact techniques and strategies used by memory champions and world record holders to perform superhuman feats of memory by day four you'll be ready for what I call the mnemonic nuclear option the single most powerful tool in your memory arsenal you'll learn why literally every memory champion and world record holder uses this technique and how you too can use it for anything and everything you want to remember on day five I'll teach you why our brains often forget even the most important in information and how to counter this effect so that you can remember everything you want to long-term I'll also teach you how to minimize wasted time spent reviewing information you've already learned by the time you're done with these next five days you will be able to do absolutely incredible feats of memory to impress your friends and achieve your wildest goals then once we're done I'll let you know about an exciting opportunity to further enhance your knowledge of learning and memory enhancement so let's get on with today's lesson first things first I want you to take a moment and pull out the PDF companion guide that we've created for this course on the first page you'll find a free writing area asking you to write out three or more reasons why you want to improve your memory don't skip this doing this exercise is an important part of increasing your motivation and priming you to succeed in this course in fact according to one of the most important and seminal researchers on adult learning Malcolm Knowles it is essentially impossible for the adult brain to learn something new unless it knows why it is learning it and how it will be applied so as you write out your three or more reasons I want you to get specific dig in to some specific scenarios or stories where you felt that your memory is holding you back come up with some clearer ways in which you would like to be able to rely on your memory here are a few examples whenever I go to conferences to network and build my career I am embarrassed by my inability to remember people's names even on the second or third day of the conference by the end of this five day challenge I want to be able to effortlessly learn 50 people's names in a day and remember them permanently or how about I'm trying to learn a new language but my progress has been slow I feel unable to express myself even after a year of learning at the end of this course I want to be able to memorize 25 new difficult words per day and actually use them after or perhaps I recently had an emergency situation where I lost my bag and I was completely helpless I didn't know any phone numbers I didn't have my credit cards memorized and I had to ask people for change to get home I want to be able to memorize the phone numbers of my top three emergency contacts plus the number of my backup credit card all right are you ready at this point please pause the video and begin writing at least three specific reasons and goals that you hope to achieve throughout this course I'll wait right here alright you're back I am glad that you actually took the time to do that exercise because as you'll see it is going to make a big difference in how devoted you remain to this course up next let's go ahead and get a feel for where you're starting from in the PDF companion guide we've given you a link to open up our very own interactive game server this is a portal where our students can complete various memory challenges in this particular challenge I'd like for you to open up the random words level to example the goal of this exercise is to memorize a list of 20 random words as quickly as possible go ahead and pause the video again now and give that game a try I'll wait right here again okay you're back again how did you do how many words did you memorize and how long did it take you take a moment to share your preliminary results in the comment section below if you're like most people you probably didn't get all 20 words or maybe not even half of them but would it surprise you if I told you that by the end of this five day challenge you'll be able to memorize the entire list of 20 words in something like 2 or 3 minutes I know I know it sounds impossible but it's true all that will come with time for today it is almost time to end but first I'd like to try a crazy little experiment with you you see my team and I have long debated just how fast can we teach these techniques to people personally I've always believed that people need to understand how something works before they actually use it which is why we're going to dive into some simplified neuro scientific principles and explanations about your brain in tomorrow's lecture my team on the other hand believes that these techniques are so powerful so revolutionary that they work on literally anyone even if they don't know that they're using memory techniques to be honest I'm really not sure who is right and that is where you come in for the following exercise I need you to sit in a comfortable position relax and take a deep breath this is going to seem a bit bizarre but I need you to keep an open mind and just trust me on this one first I'd like you to imagine that you're standing in the doorway to your bedroom you can close your eyes if you want to or leave them open but either way pull up an image of what you see as you reach the doorway now I want you to turn to the right and walk to the first corner of the room in that corner I want you to picture two seahorses now I want you to imagine that they are on National Geographic and oh oh oh no oh they're in the middle of mating right on your furniture yikes how embarrassing now I want you to get rid of those inappropriate seahorses by imagining them getting sucked up by a vacuum hose okay do you have that visualization let's go ahead and leave this corner and move on to the next one next part of the experiment I want you to continue counterclockwise to the next corner of the room I want you to imagine that in the next corner of the room where you're standing there's a delicious container of chunky peanut butter tantalizing you if there's a desk in that corner you can imagine a plate on the desk and if there isn't you can imagine that someone has smeared that chunky peanut butter all up against the walls in the corner yuck as you visualize this I want you to think about the taste and the smell of that delicious peanut butter up next I want you to continue counterclockwise into the third corner of the room where I want you to visualize a big messy tangled ball of wires you know the kind of ball of wires that you probably have in one drawer somewhere in your house I want you to picture that exact bundle of wires and use some detail picture that old phone charger cable you have from the 1990s in there those broken iPhone cables that you still haven't thrown away get specific I want you to imagine that the wires are strong all along the corner of the wall or over whatever furniture is near the third corner of the room for example if there's a closet imagine that the wires are all tangling up inside of your clothes hangers making it one big mess you got it all right let's go to the fourth corner of your bedroom now in this one I want you to imagine that there's a picture hanging right next to the corner but it's not just any picture it's your favorite historical picture of all time you know the one the one that you saw in history class and you thought to yourself wow it would have been incredible to be there on that day for me it's a picture from the 1968 Olympics because of my fascination with the u.s. civil rights movement but for you it might be the famous picture of soldiers raising a flag at Iwo Jima or Martin Luther King jr. giving his speech in Washington any picture will work now imagine that the picture is hung right there in that fourth corner of your bedroom do you have it okay so now we're back at the exit of your bedroom and there's just one more weird thing I want you to do in the doorway to your bedroom just as you're exiting I want you to put a big location' pin just like the one you've seen on Google Maps blocking your exit it's so big that you have to just squeeze under it okay you have all of those visualizations let's go ahead and review in corner one you have two X rated seahorses getting vacuumed up in corner two you have a bunch of chunky peanut butter making a huge mess in corner three you have a mess of tangled cables in corner four you have a famous historical picture and at the exit a big location pin blocking your way out got it alright that's all for today's lesson but stay tuned because tomorrow I'm going to be explaining some basic neuro scientific principles and concepts so that you can better understand your brain and how to use it plus stick around to the end of tomorrow's videos where I'll reveal what all of those silly pictures in the corner of your bedroom actually mean see you tomorrow

Channel: Learningly TV

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Length: 15min 11sec (911 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 27 2019