Want to improve your memory-Do this everyday | Krishan Chahal | TEDxMMUSadopurAmbala

well friends we all knows we all know that our memory is the most important effectivity of our mind if you have a sharp memory you'll have knowledge and you have knowledge then there is no dearth of success in life a powerful memory can change the entire course of our life but most of us are facing the problem of forgetting things if I'll ask you how many of you feel that your memory is weak yes yes most of us most of us think so I was of the same opinion friends but when I came to know about the mechanism of memory I have improved it dramatically from my day-to-day life activity to the record-breaking level from memorizing a deck of playing cards of 52 playing cards in less than a minute to memorizing the pie value most of us think pie is a 22 by 7 or it's 3.14 and it does repeat after every 6 decimal places but it's a long tale friends it's a 3.1415 tanda he'll keep on counting itself nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine three two three eight four six two six four three three eight three two seven nine five zero two eight and it's a eight four one nine seven one six nine three nine nine three and so on up to infinity thank you thank you very much I tried it I memorized it up to 43,000 decimal places and then recalled it with 100% accuracy in five hours 21 minutes only and believe me friends if I can do it all of you can do it and not even pi you can memorize anything whatever you want to memorize and you can retain it for a long time as far as you want and it's a it's a matter of only like say how how well you have mastered art of memorizing fringe I have trained in my workshop I have trained people from different fields whether they're students scientists professionals or Air Force pilots what I found in common is that people have good memory but they don't know actually how to use it and the situation becomes worse in case of students because they spend there most of the time in studies and still not able to achieve their desired results I really have soft corner for them now what to do friends if if they know the art of memorizing really they can solve their most of the learning related issues and in this competitive time when this is at first acquired skill I want to brief here about what is art of memorizing hight works out of memorizing we can divide basically in two parts frames one is about designing the information or modifying the information in such a way so that it can catch your attention so that you can learn it on its own you have to modify the information friends according to the taste of human mind let me take your example of it let's take let's expelling mistakes most of the students do spelling mistakes in their preschools or they like the first four five years of the school and it's very common among students if I take a word like the country especially words which are confusing so students do a mistake like say here they can easily do this mistake of letter s now the teacher will do teacher will cracked it and we will ask the student to write it five times and if they will do the mistake again then write it down ten times if again then write down it 20 times no alternate Lucian is offered it's a most boring job for a student it doesn't require any active participation they can write it at 100 times he won while watching their favorite movies so there is no use of keep on writing keep on writing without any involvement of your attention instead of doing it in that way if you modify the information according to the taste of human mind what your mind prefer to learn you can modify it like this you can exaggerate the missing letter s now it's catching your attention and you will remember it very easily in the future if you do any mistake in any word so simply exaggerate the missing letter do some creativity on it make it outstanding and you will never forget it again friends no need to write it 5 times 10 times 20 times but for different type of information we have two different methods like it's useful for us killings only but you can't memorize a long theory by using this method for memorizing a theory you need to use a self meaning system to memorize a PI value you need to use grid method of memorizing to memorize chemical equations you need to use journey system or mind palace technique there are more than 20 methods of mnemonics friends I have authored so many books on this topic it's really very interesting subject but today I want to draw your attention on that another part of the art of memorizing what I told it's about modifying the information another is about modifying or reprogramming your mind to put your attention on the desired information or in the desired stuff every day you are observing so many things but you cannot retain it for a long time every moment we are receiving Tao sense of signals on the retinas of our eyes on our hearing sense we can't observe all those signals we'll observe only those signals for which we are programmed friends so you need to reprogram your mind in such a way so that you can put your attention automatically on the important things on the information which matter to you the most like it happens with students are like in our exam they will read the question yes yes I know yes I know answer of these question words on the bottom of the right side pages of the book but what was the answer that I don't know it means what and memorizing of the location is more difficult in comparison of memorizing the answer itself how many locations we have top center bottom three plus three only six locations and still we can remember the locations of most of the answers because we are programmed to do it we are programmed to memorize the locations in your college days you are you are able to memorize long theories and now you are walking now you feel that my memory is weak now not your memories not weak you have just changed your preferences in your college days you are more interested in fact and figures now you are interested in stock markets right so only you have change your preferences that's why you feel your memory is not good about theory and all but your memory is good but now you have changed the information like whatever you are collecting now it's totally changed friends so I'm going to tell you very simple exercise you need to do it on the daily basis if you'll do this exercise friends you can improve your memory many faults in a week you will realize the difference so every day before going to sleep you have to recall your complete day routine start from the questions like this [Music] which was the first tab like sir when I touched the ground in the morning when I live in the bed and then what I did to whom I met first then B profession-specific French if you are a student then try to recall the contents of the first lecture second lecture third lecture then what you did at the tuition at harm now if you're walking then try to recall the points related to a Geo profiles like the who are present when you reach the office what they were doing what they are talking how many calls phone calls you received holiday and like say to whom you met what what about their names and their face features try to recall the things so today you'll be not able to recall it in a detail tomorrow a little improvement will be there friends but day after tomorrow the moment you'll wake up in the morning and you will touch the ground with your feet you will receive a gentle reminder please pay your kind attention and remember which step is the first its left or right the moment you will enter in the first lecture your mind will send you a reminder a pop-up yes remember all the details of the lecture because you have one set in the night when you will go to the future in your mind will say hey remember the complete detail of the lecture because you have to answer in the night and if you are walking the moment you will enter in your office your mind will say hey remember all the people who are sitting what they were doing what were the problems what were the remedies of the day and the moment you love you will answer your phone your mind will say hey remember the detail of the talk because you have to answer in the night so you are actually by doing this exercise you are telling your subconscious mind where to focus and we are not like students if they want to read a new chapter generally what they do they will open the book they will start reading it pages to pages and after that were after finishing it up they will think or they will read the question yes this question I think it was I answered uh was there but I can't recall it properly I mean we can't answer the questions in detail after reading the complete chapter but instead of doing that if they will read the questions first and now read the chapter what will happen now their mind will work like a magnet to observe the answer of those questions and in a single reading even they can remember the contents of those answers so it's kind of programming of your mind you are telling your mind where to focus and where not to focus so friends this exercise have further levels also like one is a where to focus and another is in what depth you have to focus like if you feel any subject is boring to you so what you will do like for me it's biology so recall the contents of the biology lecture in detail like you teach your entered and then he asked to show you the assignment and then he explained about a DNA sequencing theory one student asked the question and then I was also confused I raised also one question and I looked in the book as well so try to recall that subject in more detail by doing this exercise you are telling your mind that you have to focus in depth in the Balaji subject so it's all about programming your subconscious mind so let me sum it up friends one part is using the mnemonics using the mnemonics like God self meaning system journey system and all so that you can modify your information according to the test of your mind another is reprogramming of your mind according to the information you want to remember so if you will couple both of them together friends results will be marvelous I push into hell an ordinary person can be called as memory king by using this heart of memorizing only friends why not you and believe me this simple exercise five minutes a day can change your life can improve your memory many folds so try this exercise for the next three days and don't forget to do it today thank you [Applause]

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Length: 14min 15sec (855 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2017