I already knew the list :D this is from Derren Browns book Tricks of the Mind. I haven't read the book in about a year and I still remember the whole list and I am very what my name says lol
Wow, I am totally going to use this method from now on. I got 9 the first time but after trying the method got all 20 C: I've never been able to do that before
sure it helps your memory, every time you imagine something and enhance your images you straighten your Neron's in your brain. The signal becomes stronger making you smarter and more creative at the same time.
when ever you use your brain to recall something you improve your memory and this forces you to do that.
I got 9 the first time, 10 because I cheated and read the comments. I am just too impatient to spend this much time memorizing 20 things. Got to go I'm in a hurry, just can't remember why.
@Gabrielwong In fact sir, you are right. I have listened to the book and this technique is directly from his audio book. For any of you who think this is a fake, then goto a torrent site ie thepiratebay and search for yourselves to have a good e-read.
Memorize pegs for numbers and link the list to the pegs and you can remember each word in order forward, backward and if someone shouts out a number 1-20 you can now what word goes with what number. Word substitution may be necessary for a good image on some lists. Telephone umbers can use the numbers on your phone so you do not get them mixed up with pegs, unless that is confusing. Leanring pegs over laps ways to remember any number.
I got them all the first time - I just wrote them down on the paper I had prepared the first time around. That's how a smart guy does it!
Just kidding.
Very fun! My own technique is pretty similar, instead of linking images to one another I just had them all in one - this is obviously better if you need to remember a long list of things and can take your time at it.
Anyone knows any other fun gimmicks? Who knows I might start studying something boring again one day, might come handy. :)
@cbrankley I highly doubt that Derren Brown's the one that has developed this technique. He uses it, and teaches is to the participants in The Heist, all right, but I don't think he's developed it himself. Although if I'm wrong and you got proof, correct me please. :D
This is lifted straight out of Derren Brown's "Tricks of the Mind" book. It is very good and goes onto teach the 'peg' system and Memory palaces. I managed to learn all post-war FA cup final scores, whether they be after extra-time or on penalties in just a few days.
This is no new science or knowlege, give the poster a break. This gors back even hundreds of years. I study Medicine (see my username) and I use this technique to remember knowlege. I found it most useful to pass my anatomy exams. I stumbled across it as my own technique, but then learned it was well practiced and old. I never thought to add an emotional state, thats a good tip. I remembered the 20 first go round. I linked the images together in a huge white room.
So I saw a phone, the cable of which was made by sausages, being eaten by a monkey sat on a button, propped by a book, on top of some cabbages made of glass, being towed by a mouse into an intestinal tube going up into a cardboard man who was boarding a ferry decorated in Christmas decs, the captain of which was dressed as a runner, he turned a key, the ferry turned towards a huge wigwam, where a baby sat on a NZ rugby shirt(kiwi) on a bed, beneath the bed was a paintbrush made of Walnut.
I watched this video a year ago and remembered it today so I tried to write the list down. I got all from telephone to mouse (8). Then I got stuck, but remembered a pregnant woman and got all from cardboard to key (5) right again. Then I got stuck again and searched this video again. After seeing wigwam in the clip I remembered the words from baby to bed (3).
I'm not even a native speaker and those words mean nothing to me. So the method also works pretty good for a really long time.
The 'Linking Method' is a good method but there are better Mnemonic startergies. I used to always use this method thinking it was the best way. The most powerful memory 'tool' by far is the 'Method Of Loci' or sometimes know as the 'Journey Method'. This method consists of pre-memorised locations (or Loci) in which you then 'attach' the words or numbers you are trying to memorise to the location in order to remember it.
Good technique but don't be too impressed if you got them all second time around: 1) Its your second attempt (and probably 3rd time you have seen the list if you checked your answers). 2) A lot more time was spent going through each word and its neighboring word the second time. If one was given equal time for each pair of words on the first go most people would show improvement.
this is true but reverse the order, and suddenly it's a lot harder unless you actually followed the steps and visualized something...i got them all first time i went backwards and i did not write anything down..just remembered the visualisations :)
outstanding ! i have stml, and i think this will really help, as ridiculous as it seems, in ordinary life. spectacular, thank you =] * * * * * five stars
it did help, got all 20 afterwards, but now the list will probably stick with me, need to get a monkey to batter it out of my brain with a walnut on top of a sausage, while its drinking cabbage-juice from a glass filled with mouses, as I read a book, while calling Santa on a cardboard ferry, who is having a sore stomach from eating too much button-filled kiwis so he is speeding towards his bed but lost the key.. or something like that...
what if i can memorize 11. ferry/ 12. christmas better if i simply think of "merry christmas" (possibly on a boat.)? or if i simply imagine a phone, which kind of already looks like a sausage, which looks like a banana eaten by a monkey? wouldn't stuff like that make it easier and faster to remember than picturing a monkey cooking a sausage? i will probably think of this every time i see a sausage, now.
Im practising these kind of memory techniques.. Two books i fully Recommend: Domenic O' Brien 'Learn to Remember' and 'Your memory' by Kenneth L Higbee.. :) And of Course Derren Brown's 'Trick of the mind'
Because the method is not invented by Derren Brown. This same system is on many psychology/memory related books, can be found on the Internet, and is as old as the hills.
This technique sux. I visualize them and make associations but i do it with all at once. doing every single one with the one before or after it is too much work on the bran and it'll be harder on you
i got a fairly good memory and got 18/20 in order. but with out order i can get up to max. i tried with some numbers. random numbers starting from 4 digits. eg. 2596. then add an extra digit to the next set and try to recall them. eg. 74856 then 452047. see how many you get to. no patterns as paterns are easy like 63696563 whatever.. an easier way would be grouping high numbers into threes and fours. eg 258963 is 258 963. easier to visualise when you think of them spaced. see how high you go....
there are alot better ways to remember long numbers (and that´s in his book too.. it´s called the peg system, or at least is a variation of the peg system)
the fun stuff is when you combine these and start doing really nice stuff like remembering the order of the cards in a deck by just looking through them once, or be able to tell which card is missing when one is taken out and so on ;D
It might have worked a bit better if i could concentrate on anything other than your awful use of English. All i could think about while i was reading the little stories was how bad your english was, i'm no grammar bully but it makes it a lot harder... # happen's #"I can maybe get the dial around a little bit but the it breaks" # Cabbagestuck # Glasses of Win # Goldenkey #Decr #"...watching it to go hard" # throught #lsit If we're meant to concentrate, sort out the basics...
I forgot kiwi, I was imagining the athlete eating kiwi when looking at the list, but all I could remember was the athlete carrying the Christmas tree and using a key to get into a wigwam but he had a baby on his back and then he was pushing a bed that had was being painted with a walnut design.
The suggestion to connect emotionally or vividly with the objects doesn't work very well when the objects are being listed fairly quickly.
I use a different technique: I imagine I'm taking a walk from my front door to my bedroom, and I place the objects along this path. Often they interact with each other, such as a baby sitting in a wigwam eating a kiwi on a bed, but not always. This means I can "put them down" faster, which is good for people who aren't good at coming up with elaborate stories under pressure, or people who come up with too many (like me) and they all get jumbled up.
wow... that is cool. I got like, 7 the first time, then I got them all... now I just need to learn how to come up with vivid stories involving everything I'm presented with... it would be cool to associate weird objects with each card in a deck of cards, then memorize the order :)
whith 20 things is easy i remembered all without this and sadly i will remember it whole my life like in the seventh grade i had to remember 15 things. i remember it ALL.
Have you seen this YouTube video? Search for "How to Activate Your Photographic Memory". Fascinating information on boosting your memory and learning at the speed of light!
Wow! That's great! I got 10 the first time without using the association technique, then all 20 forwards and backwards using it! Thanks! I'm doing GCSEs this year and I'm definately using this.
Thanks for posting this. Really must buy Derren's book...the man's a genius! I already knew of this technique, but was a bit rusty! I got 9/20 before using association and 19/20 the 2nd time WITH association and all in the right order!
I've been doing this for a long time - It helped a lot during college especially as a last minute study tool. You can expand this to remember 100's of words in one night - organize them and recall them while writing an essay, excluding from multiple choices etc.
Link it to numbers (one-sun, two-loo, etc..) and you get random access.
Tangible words are easier than emotions/abstract ones.
heh, taken from derren brown's book (almost word for word at that) but no worries people should know about this. watch you dont get sued tho ;)
anyone interested in improving their memory with these tricks should research the 'loci' method, and theres one for numbers too that i forget. or buy derren's book.
ps. lol at broken12smiles, if ur referring to the system where u make it into a long story then a- its harder, and b- its prone to failing because people end up forgetting the order.
Visual peg and aduio peg system (by Tony Buzan). Take the numbers 1-10 and make a pic for each. So 1 is a Paintbrush (straight up and down), 2. swan, 3. heart (thk about that one) 4. yatch, 5. Cpt Hook's Hook, 6. elephnt trunk, 7. cliff, 8. snowman, 9. baloon on string and 10 is a bat n ball. Image each one bright and clear, and then go back over them a few times. You'll never forget them.
Then, attacht an image of the thing to remember to the exisitng visual peg. So 1 is a tphone: picture youreslf painting a massive telephone (rember to put the paintbrush clealry in the image, cos its this that links to the phone). 2 is sausages, so a string of them round the swans neck. Etc. The audio method involves another set of images, but this time linked to the sounds of the numbers. So for ONE I pictured a bun at first, but find bum leads to more memorable imagery. Etc.
This doesn't neccessarily increase your memory or make it better, it just helps you and gives you hints on how to retain information better, not improve it.
I have absolutely horrible memory, and I'm more than a little ADD, and I barely got two the first time, but I got all twenty the second time, and all twenty backwards. :D
Read "Tricks of the mind" and had someone else write another list of random words to test this out on and i took a few minutes to do this with them and waited 3 days before trying to write them down. 20/20 this system really works, i'm glad i read the book.
Oh my goodness, I got absolutely none at first and then I tried the technique and got 19! I only left out stomach, and I guess that's because I didn't get the mouse-stomach thing... anyway, I love it! It's brilliant!
I've been using this for 20-years up to this present moment, and it always served me well, giving me an
edge over alot of people. After the first month consistently incorporating it into every facet of my life, it becomes embedded, and automatic, thus becoming a "GIFT", in which people assume.
Easy. 20/20. Heres how :p A monkey holding a sausage phone. A button on a book of cabbages. A mouse drinking out of a glass, holding a stomach. For christmas i got a cardboard ferry. An athelete and his keychain, sitting in a wigwam. A baby in a kiwi coloured bed. A painting of a walnut. When i imagine each of these, it just became a question of remembering the specific order.
Well, I've memorized a 54 line poem for an English class, the method used? Simple repetition. Say the 1st line. Say the first 2. Repeat. Say the first 3 etc. There is no quickfire method to learning it, but with a little effort and time, you'll memorize what you need in no time.
I got 19 the first time, as I have a pretty good memory (forgot paintbrush) and used the make-a-story method. This one's great though, I love how it works backwards :D
i advise you to get mr Browns book, it explains all this and also expalins the loci system which is much more effective, within a week i learnt how to memorize a deck of cards in a week, a totally pointless skill but great if your a geek like me
ok but what if i asked u what the work 15 was, then the word for 14 etc. that would not be so easy. for that u need the peg system. but thats pua and thats more of a secret so im not gonna tell u how
Fairly straightforward - memory by association which is why you can do the reverse sequence easily.
Try encoding the numbers as well and then you have random access (i.e what is the 18 word? ... ) package these lists into different areas of a visual map and you can easily stash hundreds of words while reading.
Interesting thing is you can even apply this while listening to a lecture and you will remember all the important points...
I usually can't remember well if I connect 2 at a time like this teaches you..so I make a room, and create a story as I remember. I see a monkey trying to use a telephone with a button as he holds a book in another hand. The book has a cabbage inside a glass and a mouse is trying to get in it...etc works for me. If you come up with a word you don't know, literally put that word on the wall of the room in red in your story.
i got 18 the first time i forgot the button and the book but anyway it is a good technique but how does helping remember 20 things in order help me apart from remembering my shopping list?
this is a good video, you might want to take each item, and say telephone: a pic of phone beating a pole down, and etc. with each item, until you can recall any list. with twenty items, you can develop a a location list, pic 4 rooms in your house and in your mind place the item next to the room you see.
first try 3, second 20, and i was like thinkin, as i went through. theres no way i will remember. lol very good. a think the key is, the fact i thought it was funni so u take it in more. honestly if u go through payin attention an try to get a emotion like humour for the images
This didn't really help me with my memory, but all of a sudden I really want a book covered in glass and made of cardboard about a sausage flavored walnut kiwi mouse baby telephone monkey athlete button that smells like cabbage, so I can read it on my stomach on the Christmas ferry then when I get to the wigwam I can lay in bed rubbing myself with a paintbrush, that's key.
This was fairer than the way he does it in his book. He only gives you 30 seconds to do it initially which I wouldn't be able to do with the linking system either
The secret to speed reading in to NOT form a little voice in your head which is reading the words. That's how most people do it. In stead you have train in reading by simply moving your eyes swiftly across the lines while making some kind of noise in your throat which will prevent you from forming the little voice in your head that is reading the words one by one.
It really worked. I got the first four right and then only separate pairs of 8 other items. After the 10 stories I got all of them. Too bad I can't use it for my studies. The stories would be too boring, but I'll try it. I really should go to study now ^^.
The information that you were trying to remember was stored in the short-term memory which can only contain about 4 things or so for a average person. Of course while 1 word is 1 thing, 1 mental picture is also 1 thing. Like if you get random numbers (4 7 1 8 4 9 7 3 6 5 2 1) and remember them seperate then you can remember about 4 numbers (4 7 1 8) (avg person) however if you cluster them in groups then you can remember 4 groups (471 849 736 521
this is an ancient memory technique used most famously of by Metrodorus of Sepsis, and brought to dizzying heights by Giodarno Bruno who was accused of sorcery in the 16th century and tortured continually by the inquisition for 9 years before finally being burned at the stake. Bruno was actually one of the most brilliant and original thinkers Europe has ever produced and his torture is one of the mast shamefull and nightmarish episodes of European intellectual history.
I want this video on my EGO Wi-Fi phone.
eweykidd13d 4 hours ago
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enarolloyd49g 3 weeks ago
I used these 20 and 40 of my own and i can remember them with no problem
robieb0i 3 weeks ago
Lame.
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Not as good as the stuff in the Mindreading Exposed ebook
yeeeeahdroppingteam 3 months ago
I already knew the list :D this is from Derren Browns book Tricks of the Mind. I haven't read the book in about a year and I still remember the whole list and I am very what my name says lol
stoneddan 7 months ago
got all 20 but after using my own visualisation. i found the suggested one hard to follow.
faisalshahx 8 months ago
Now do them backwards starting with walnut
bander87 8 months ago
The first time I got 0... (I've been awake almost 24h) but with the method I got 18, quite an improvement. Thumbs up!
avatinio 10 months ago 3
@avatinio now get some sleep.
mmedeuxchevaux 9 months ago 2
Wow, I am totally going to use this method from now on. I got 9 the first time but after trying the method got all 20 C: I've never been able to do that before
KiraraInuyashaLovr 10 months ago
HOW MANY CUPS.
how many cups.
i need to know.
mimifails 11 months ago
Derren brown knows the whole english dictionary by heart in order. hes knows what page every word is on. this must be how he does it.
lizardlenny 1 year ago
Good list learning trick but doesn't help your memory at all.
andymacceltic 1 year ago
@andymacceltic
sure it helps your memory, every time you imagine something and enhance your images you straighten your Neron's in your brain. The signal becomes stronger making you smarter and more creative at the same time.
when ever you use your brain to recall something you improve your memory and this forces you to do that.
BBFMMA 9 months ago
i dont get it
mr2000aaa 1 year ago
I got 9 the first time, 10 because I cheated and read the comments. I am just too impatient to spend this much time memorizing 20 things. Got to go I'm in a hurry, just can't remember why.
reginaDexant 1 year ago
its working well
first i got 10
next time i got 15 names
remembering everything as a picture is a worth idea
rythmicityoflife 1 year ago
i rather recall something istantly rather then trying to find what im trying to memorize in order like the alfabet just to find the answer
TrueDominguez 1 year ago
@cbrankley It wasnt made by Derren brown, it is a technique created by someone but he written it in his book called Tricks of the mind
Gabrielwong 1 year ago
@Gabrielwong In fact sir, you are right. I have listened to the book and this technique is directly from his audio book. For any of you who think this is a fake, then goto a torrent site ie thepiratebay and search for yourselves to have a good e-read.
Atropolis24 1 year ago
@cbrankley Derren didn't make this effect but talk of it in his book. The systems he teaches in his book have been around for centuries.
thiswintertime 1 year ago
i got 14, i have all of these things in my kitchen.. exept the monkey, i dont have it yet, but am curious to know how it tastes :)
yap, i used this tecnique,i always do,bcs my emory is crap so thats why i use it all the time.
i am trying to do that with the numbers, 1= a man, 2= binoculars,3= tree.. ecc..
and i hope ill make a story in my head, so ill be able to remember long numbers..
cheers for the video, its great.
MrTomkaboy 1 year ago
Memorize?
ThomasPcz 1 year ago
Memorize pegs for numbers and link the list to the pegs and you can remember each word in order forward, backward and if someone shouts out a number 1-20 you can now what word goes with what number. Word substitution may be necessary for a good image on some lists. Telephone umbers can use the numbers on your phone so you do not get them mixed up with pegs, unless that is confusing. Leanring pegs over laps ways to remember any number.
JonahTorn 1 year ago
@Lattenkiste Because this is literally taken, word for word, out of Derrens book.
thiswintertime 1 year ago
I got them all the first time - I just wrote them down on the paper I had prepared the first time around. That's how a smart guy does it!
Just kidding.
Very fun! My own technique is pretty similar, instead of linking images to one another I just had them all in one - this is obviously better if you need to remember a long list of things and can take your time at it.
Anyone knows any other fun gimmicks? Who knows I might start studying something boring again one day, might come handy. :)
F4c2a 1 year ago
@cbrankley I highly doubt that Derren Brown's the one that has developed this technique. He uses it, and teaches is to the participants in The Heist, all right, but I don't think he's developed it himself. Although if I'm wrong and you got proof, correct me please. :D
Od3ri 1 year ago
@cbrankley It wasn't made by derren brown. It's presented in his book, he didn't say he created them, but rather bent them towards his will.
Tutorialization 1 year ago
mayyer 1 year ago
This is lifted straight out of Derren Brown's "Tricks of the Mind" book. It is very good and goes onto teach the 'peg' system and Memory palaces. I managed to learn all post-war FA cup final scores, whether they be after extra-time or on penalties in just a few days.
Try it out.
khitan004 1 year ago
This is no new science or knowlege, give the poster a break. This gors back even hundreds of years. I study Medicine (see my username) and I use this technique to remember knowlege. I found it most useful to pass my anatomy exams. I stumbled across it as my own technique, but then learned it was well practiced and old. I never thought to add an emotional state, thats a good tip. I remembered the 20 first go round. I linked the images together in a huge white room.
MambaMedic 1 year ago
So I saw a phone, the cable of which was made by sausages, being eaten by a monkey sat on a button, propped by a book, on top of some cabbages made of glass, being towed by a mouse into an intestinal tube going up into a cardboard man who was boarding a ferry decorated in Christmas decs, the captain of which was dressed as a runner, he turned a key, the ferry turned towards a huge wigwam, where a baby sat on a NZ rugby shirt(kiwi) on a bed, beneath the bed was a paintbrush made of Walnut.
MambaMedic 1 year ago
Derren Brown?????
wt d fuck u ssaid it????
freesumit123 1 year ago
Everyone standing around with glasses of win :)
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NicktheGreek2121 1 year ago
@cbrankley Whether it's stolen or not this video is not Derren Brown you tard
Lattenkiste 1 year ago
@Lattenkiste erm he kinda taught this in the hiest if im nt wrong
forte210392 1 year ago
You have stolen the content of this video...
CLAstalder 1 year ago
I watched this video a year ago and remembered it today so I tried to write the list down. I got all from telephone to mouse (8). Then I got stuck, but remembered a pregnant woman and got all from cardboard to key (5) right again. Then I got stuck again and searched this video again. After seeing wigwam in the clip I remembered the words from baby to bed (3).
I'm not even a native speaker and those words mean nothing to me. So the method also works pretty good for a really long time.
P1ranh4 1 year ago
you like stole this directly out of the book lol nice.
BonkersFFXI 1 year ago
can you teach us how to have Photographic memory?....cuz I already knew that method...our power memory taught us how to....... pls.
hannahmitzi 1 year ago
The 'Linking Method' is a good method but there are better Mnemonic startergies. I used to always use this method thinking it was the best way. The most powerful memory 'tool' by far is the 'Method Of Loci' or sometimes know as the 'Journey Method'. This method consists of pre-memorised locations (or Loci) in which you then 'attach' the words or numbers you are trying to memorise to the location in order to remember it.
TheSam5936 1 year ago
wow took me 4 trys to get all 20 sweet =D
ElDayDreamer 1 year ago
really by joining the 2 words together u only have to remember a list of 10 things.
Bikertothemax1 2 years ago
Good technique but don't be too impressed if you got them all second time around: 1) Its your second attempt (and probably 3rd time you have seen the list if you checked your answers). 2) A lot more time was spent going through each word and its neighboring word the second time. If one was given equal time for each pair of words on the first go most people would show improvement.
einsetin007 2 years ago
It still works, doesn't it? I remembered the sequence of a complete deck of cards using a method kind of like this.
simpsons225 1 year ago
this is true but reverse the order, and suddenly it's a lot harder unless you actually followed the steps and visualized something...i got them all first time i went backwards and i did not write anything down..just remembered the visualisations :)
ManniMann1986 1 year ago
The First Time I got 12... and one of them happened to be door for some reason (might have been word association with Key)
so i actually got 11 right and one extra
=P
after that, i got 20 outta 20
With plenty of laughs.
Anyone picture the monkeys grilling and laugh their ass off?
lmao
Blade9000 2 years ago
Holy shit I remembered all of the words the second time, I didn't even try!
simpsons225 2 years ago
outstanding ! i have stml, and i think this will really help, as ridiculous as it seems, in ordinary life. spectacular, thank you =] * * * * * five stars
DeepFrydRoadKill 2 years ago
funny this is exactly, to every word, like the book
zoolender001 2 years ago
thats not real memory improvement thats just the idea of memorising rows of words. i manage to remember over 50
lavusrcu 2 years ago
it did help, got all 20 afterwards, but now the list will probably stick with me, need to get a monkey to batter it out of my brain with a walnut on top of a sausage, while its drinking cabbage-juice from a glass filled with mouses, as I read a book, while calling Santa on a cardboard ferry, who is having a sore stomach from eating too much button-filled kiwis so he is speeding towards his bed but lost the key.. or something like that...
Nyraeve 2 years ago 25
@Nyraeve AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS comment killed me :D hahahaha
CrazyDictator23 1 year ago
@Nyraeve Your brain can hold 1000 TerraBytes of information
JoshBULLiT 2 weeks ago
my english is not god I remember +- 10
YAMAZAK1 2 years ago
to fast
joshuawaters08 2 years ago
what if i can memorize 11. ferry/ 12. christmas better if i simply think of "merry christmas" (possibly on a boat.)? or if i simply imagine a phone, which kind of already looks like a sausage, which looks like a banana eaten by a monkey? wouldn't stuff like that make it easier and faster to remember than picturing a monkey cooking a sausage? i will probably think of this every time i see a sausage, now.
buggeDx3 2 years ago
Im practising these kind of memory techniques.. Two books i fully Recommend: Domenic O' Brien 'Learn to Remember' and 'Your memory' by Kenneth L Higbee.. :) And of Course Derren Brown's 'Trick of the mind'
TheSam5936 2 years ago
You literally 'took' the words out of Derren's book lol :P
TheSam5936 2 years ago
Because the method is not invented by Derren Brown. This same system is on many psychology/memory related books, can be found on the Internet, and is as old as the hills.
789123Y 2 years ago
This technique sux. I visualize them and make associations but i do it with all at once. doing every single one with the one before or after it is too much work on the bran and it'll be harder on you
Lattenkiste 2 years ago
1st trye 19 / 20 2nd trye 20/20
imaninja1000 2 years ago
18 but i already knew this technique - and i didnt even realise the work kiwi was in there.
jsung8070 2 years ago
this is really cool and helpful..i got 13/20 but some out of order the first time...perfect the 2nd
adarkcanuck 2 years ago
wow amazing i got 20/20.wow.i cant get over it.hey can sum1 pls tell me what his book is called.thnx for the vid!!
JBNessie 2 years ago
I am reading that book right now ;D
when i tried it the first time, i got 2/20
when i tried it the using this i got 20/20
I dont know about the rest of you, but to me that´s just cool ;D
yanimar89 2 years ago
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what is the name of the book ? thankyou
Joel0277 2 years ago
i got a fairly good memory and got 18/20 in order. but with out order i can get up to max. i tried with some numbers. random numbers starting from 4 digits. eg. 2596. then add an extra digit to the next set and try to recall them. eg. 74856 then 452047. see how many you get to. no patterns as paterns are easy like 63696563 whatever.. an easier way would be grouping high numbers into threes and fours. eg 258963 is 258 963. easier to visualise when you think of them spaced. see how high you go....
0002gnikvbor 2 years ago
there are alot better ways to remember long numbers (and that´s in his book too.. it´s called the peg system, or at least is a variation of the peg system)
the fun stuff is when you combine these and start doing really nice stuff like remembering the order of the cards in a deck by just looking through them once, or be able to tell which card is missing when one is taken out and so on ;D
yanimar89 2 years ago
what is the name of his book ? thankyou
Joel0277 2 years ago
tricks of the mind
yanimar89 2 years ago
tricks of the mind
but the memory part is only a small piece of it
SadegoGG 2 years ago
joeyhederer 2 years ago
Click on Einstein to reveal his technique for 100% concentration and focus - his secret method was discovered in his notes after his death.
MrPhotographicMemory 2 years ago
yea dats in his tricks of the mind book aye?
lulu1night4ever 2 years ago
try this high ,,,, no picture in the world will make you remember 20 stupid things
alfa12alfa 2 years ago
I forgot kiwi, I was imagining the athlete eating kiwi when looking at the list, but all I could remember was the athlete carrying the Christmas tree and using a key to get into a wigwam but he had a baby on his back and then he was pushing a bed that had was being painted with a walnut design.
The suggestion to connect emotionally or vividly with the objects doesn't work very well when the objects are being listed fairly quickly.
Most people know about this technique :)
12thDecember 2 years ago
that was cool dude i thats how i did it never did the thing before i made a story with mine it was fucked up but it worked =) nice
RaNdoM5530 2 years ago
I got 17/20 with this technique, but I would have done better I think if I hadn't had to kick my puppy off the couch at the beginning.
millineu 2 years ago
I use a different technique: I imagine I'm taking a walk from my front door to my bedroom, and I place the objects along this path. Often they interact with each other, such as a baby sitting in a wigwam eating a kiwi on a bed, but not always. This means I can "put them down" faster, which is good for people who aren't good at coming up with elaborate stories under pressure, or people who come up with too many (like me) and they all get jumbled up.
millineu 2 years ago
wow... that is cool. I got like, 7 the first time, then I got them all... now I just need to learn how to come up with vivid stories involving everything I'm presented with... it would be cool to associate weird objects with each card in a deck of cards, then memorize the order :)
deadeaded 2 years ago
My memory seems to be awful... I tried the technique but couldn't remember my starting image... lame. x
gassfactor 2 years ago
whith 20 things is easy i remembered all without this and sadly i will remember it whole my life like in the seventh grade i had to remember 15 things. i remember it ALL.
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pennywise69clown 2 years ago
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Pascey 2 years ago
with loci method this is piece of cake but without using it i can barely remember only like 8-10 things .....
patuCCaz 2 years ago
Wow! That's great! I got 10 the first time without using the association technique, then all 20 forwards and backwards using it! Thanks! I'm doing GCSEs this year and I'm definately using this.
Yurikofirefly 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Really must buy Derren's book...the man's a genius! I already knew of this technique, but was a bit rusty! I got 9/20 before using association and 19/20 the 2nd time WITH association and all in the right order!
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faithfulviewer2008 2 years ago
thank you so much boss :)
aceman194 2 years ago
I've been doing this for a long time - It helped a lot during college especially as a last minute study tool. You can expand this to remember 100's of words in one night - organize them and recall them while writing an essay, excluding from multiple choices etc.
Link it to numbers (one-sun, two-loo, etc..) and you get random access.
Tangible words are easier than emotions/abstract ones.
kanjitoon 2 years ago 3
heh, taken from derren brown's book (almost word for word at that) but no worries people should know about this. watch you dont get sued tho ;)
anyone interested in improving their memory with these tricks should research the 'loci' method, and theres one for numbers too that i forget. or buy derren's book.
ps. lol at broken12smiles, if ur referring to the system where u make it into a long story then a- its harder, and b- its prone to failing because people end up forgetting the order.
wtfallnamestaken101 2 years ago
heya
Im a psychology student...and im kinda desperate to improve my memory right now. lol
I would really appreciate if you could tell me which derren brown book this is referring to please?
Cheers
mahjabeenadam 2 years ago
19/20. Different system. This system is tricky for me cos I have almost no imagination.
sxmadrid 2 years ago
whats your system? i need help in memorizing lol
iwantram3n 2 years ago
Visual peg and aduio peg system (by Tony Buzan). Take the numbers 1-10 and make a pic for each. So 1 is a Paintbrush (straight up and down), 2. swan, 3. heart (thk about that one) 4. yatch, 5. Cpt Hook's Hook, 6. elephnt trunk, 7. cliff, 8. snowman, 9. baloon on string and 10 is a bat n ball. Image each one bright and clear, and then go back over them a few times. You'll never forget them.
sxmadrid 2 years ago
Then, attacht an image of the thing to remember to the exisitng visual peg. So 1 is a tphone: picture youreslf painting a massive telephone (rember to put the paintbrush clealry in the image, cos its this that links to the phone). 2 is sausages, so a string of them round the swans neck. Etc. The audio method involves another set of images, but this time linked to the sounds of the numbers. So for ONE I pictured a bun at first, but find bum leads to more memorable imagery. Etc.
sxmadrid 2 years ago
I need to improve , I didnt get that you had to (still had 5 words in order) make pictures of the word so now it goes better
artoine 2 years ago
It's hard when I don't know what a wigwam is =[
bbsonjohn 2 years ago
@bbsonjohn so what is wigwam?
luffy3 2 years ago
i only missed one
garciamona9 2 years ago
see i cant remember anything without the starwars theme playing
badluck1986 2 years ago 2
My brain is too slow trying to cook up the images for the words before they disappear- damn.
carcassette 2 years ago
you have to have confidence that you can remember stuff like this, with negative thoughts you'll just lose confidence and it wont improve your memory
iRushROCKS 2 years ago 2
Dude you did it the suckers way likning only two at a time seriously.
broken12smiles 2 years ago
seems to work, but can you really do this with only 1 minute to look at the list?
y643ffw 2 years ago
wow, memorized all 20, worked like a charm!
RobertWeekes 2 years ago
wow. this worked like a charm. I tried to make visualisations on the first go, but i was trying to visualize numbers and objects.
dancdow 2 years ago
This doesn't neccessarily increase your memory or make it better, it just helps you and gives you hints on how to retain information better, not improve it.
BrawlPwnt 2 years ago
That's the order from his book. I didn't forget for 3 weeks atleast
Martyninho 2 years ago
didnt help at all
insertbadname 2 years ago
i dont have the patience.
moving on.
zippywaite 2 years ago
A day later, and I still know all twenty!
oywidapoodles 2 years ago 2
I have absolutely horrible memory, and I'm more than a little ADD, and I barely got two the first time, but I got all twenty the second time, and all twenty backwards. :D
oywidapoodles 2 years ago
Read "Tricks of the mind" and had someone else write another list of random words to test this out on and i took a few minutes to do this with them and waited 3 days before trying to write them down. 20/20 this system really works, i'm glad i read the book.
theneonsavior 2 years ago
Oh my goodness, I got absolutely none at first and then I tried the technique and got 19! I only left out stomach, and I guess that's because I didn't get the mouse-stomach thing... anyway, I love it! It's brilliant!
HelenaMac2006 2 years ago
Amazing!
I couldn't even remember the first item on the first try, but I got all of them (except one) on the second try!
DrPhenomenon1 2 years ago
to hard i forgot to easlier
luigimariospeed 2 years ago
i got 20/20 after applying the technique- woohoo felt ever so satisfying and magical almost!
ezshare23421 2 years ago 8
This is Kevin Tredeau's mega-memory technique.
I've been using this for 20-years up to this present moment, and it always served me well, giving me an
edge over alot of people. After the first month consistently incorporating it into every facet of my life, it becomes embedded, and automatic, thus becoming a "GIFT", in which people assume.
EsotericAdept 2 years ago
sketchydc 2 years ago
i cant remember those words at order .i got 15/20 but always in wrong order....any suggestions?
uukkonen 2 years ago
got last 6 in wrong order and cant remember any of beginning.i cant visualize any story of those words at that speed...any suggestions??
uukkonen 2 years ago
@Bahora:What a coincidence!!!I got 19 for d first tym too and forgot paintbrush(but I knew the word has brush)
I lyk da video.Thk 4 posting.
How can some1 memorize a whole text or poem???Pls I need help
fridoxilinosin 2 years ago
Well, I've memorized a 54 line poem for an English class, the method used? Simple repetition. Say the 1st line. Say the first 2. Repeat. Say the first 3 etc. There is no quickfire method to learning it, but with a little effort and time, you'll memorize what you need in no time.
JimmyjimTube 2 years ago
I got 19 the first time, as I have a pretty good memory (forgot paintbrush) and used the make-a-story method. This one's great though, I love how it works backwards :D
Bahoral 2 years ago
i advise you to get mr Browns book, it explains all this and also expalins the loci system which is much more effective, within a week i learnt how to memorize a deck of cards in a week, a totally pointless skill but great if your a geek like me
cobracopey 2 years ago
ok but what if i asked u what the work 15 was, then the word for 14 etc. that would not be so easy. for that u need the peg system. but thats pua and thats more of a secret so im not gonna tell u how
SwayZyhiphop 2 years ago
The peg system has nothing to do with PUA, not in its creation anyway.
But I do peg items I want to remember to points in my home and walk around the rooms.
SpacedTime 2 years ago
I got all of them the first time around, but it's only because I learned this technique from television years ago. Fun video!
JainaMac 2 years ago
hehe i got 1 the first time and 3 the second haha for me making a story about it is way better.
TerriannaUzumaki 2 years ago
Fairly straightforward - memory by association which is why you can do the reverse sequence easily.
Try encoding the numbers as well and then you have random access (i.e what is the 18 word? ... ) package these lists into different areas of a visual map and you can easily stash hundreds of words while reading.
Interesting thing is you can even apply this while listening to a lecture and you will remember all the important points...
kanjitoon 3 years ago
6 first time round
14 2nd time round, it definetly helped.
Chrisfobia 3 years ago
I usually can't remember well if I connect 2 at a time like this teaches you..so I make a room, and create a story as I remember. I see a monkey trying to use a telephone with a button as he holds a book in another hand. The book has a cabbage inside a glass and a mouse is trying to get in it...etc works for me. If you come up with a word you don't know, literally put that word on the wall of the room in red in your story.
naruky 3 years ago
It is good advice.
orangefan9 3 years ago
first round: 2. after watching: 20 easily. what the.......
adrastos9 3 years ago
i got 18 the first time i forgot the button and the book but anyway it is a good technique but how does helping remember 20 things in order help me apart from remembering my shopping list?
icmull 3 years ago
i found this shit.. just what i thought sorry
Musicleelee0 3 years ago
It's good advice you should probably take it.
orangefan9 3 years ago
this is a good video, you might want to take each item, and say telephone: a pic of phone beating a pole down, and etc. with each item, until you can recall any list. with twenty items, you can develop a a location list, pic 4 rooms in your house and in your mind place the item next to the room you see.
dwight00001 3 years ago
1st - 1 2nd - 19
Fed50MD 3 years ago
First try: 9
Second try: 19. Missed Wigwam, since I don't know what it is xD
karitas 3 years ago
second try is kind of cheating in this game
geiuy 3 years ago
no. It's getting better that matters. No harsh criticism intended.
orangefan9 3 years ago
shutup
watchmyshoes22 3 years ago
got 10 then missed cardboard
Natholt 3 years ago
Good technique. I'm surprised this isn't as popular!
hobopenguin111 3 years ago
i didnt even remember the first one
camilotapia 3 years ago
first try 3, second 20, and i was like thinkin, as i went through. theres no way i will remember. lol very good. a think the key is, the fact i thought it was funni so u take it in more. honestly if u go through payin attention an try to get a emotion like humour for the images
25MEGALIVE 3 years ago
First I got 5.... then 20! Gosh, I gotta practise that for my exams...
gemmamonia 3 years ago
first try: 8
second try: 14
abz247 3 years ago
18 on the first try. I forgot Christmas and the walnut
quackstud 3 years ago
12 first and i got bored with the stories, how does a monkey cook barbecue, its not practical...
HarrisonSmith1 3 years ago
I think you pretty much missed the point. The more ridiculous the image, the easier it is to remember the connection.
AlphaTrionRFTA 3 years ago
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HarrisonSmith1 3 years ago
This didn't really help me with my memory, but all of a sudden I really want a book covered in glass and made of cardboard about a sausage flavored walnut kiwi mouse baby telephone monkey athlete button that smells like cabbage, so I can read it on my stomach on the Christmas ferry then when I get to the wigwam I can lay in bed rubbing myself with a paintbrush, that's key.
BinkieMcFartnuggets 3 years ago
shouldn't be a problem to find
dw3541 3 years ago
Lol!! lovely ;)
kutieboo 3 years ago
first, 5, second 13.
i need to keep practising this, its great =]
sugarplumhellspawn 3 years ago
Lol, i sucked both time. i had 3 to start with....then after the visuals i had 8 or 9 i think...but i was distracted, good vid though :)
dannytheawsomeness 3 years ago
The first time i basicaly got 0 because by the time I got to 7 I forgot the first four...
Second try 17.
Thank you so much about the video !
Ovidius777 3 years ago
This was fairer than the way he does it in his book. He only gives you 30 seconds to do it initially which I wouldn't be able to do with the linking system either
H1PBS 3 years ago
first go: 11
second go: 21 somehow..??
ill have to go back and see where i went wrong..
PoppyAye123 3 years ago
haha
XxRomero88xX 3 years ago
1st attempt: 4
2nd attempt (with stories): 20
Nice vid.
Nuff said.
Malevolancy 3 years ago
wow this is really good :D
nangersbuffness 3 years ago
if only it could learn me to read faster, that i could read that without constantly pausing.
4trahasis 3 years ago 2
The secret to speed reading in to NOT form a little voice in your head which is reading the words. That's how most people do it. In stead you have train in reading by simply moving your eyes swiftly across the lines while making some kind of noise in your throat which will prevent you from forming the little voice in your head that is reading the words one by one.
This sounds mental but it works VERY well
Ovidius777 3 years ago
It really worked. I got the first four right and then only separate pairs of 8 other items. After the 10 stories I got all of them. Too bad I can't use it for my studies. The stories would be too boring, but I'll try it. I really should go to study now ^^.
P1ranh4 3 years ago
youre in the same boat as me, mate.
baattenburg 3 years ago
The information that you were trying to remember was stored in the short-term memory which can only contain about 4 things or so for a average person. Of course while 1 word is 1 thing, 1 mental picture is also 1 thing. Like if you get random numbers (4 7 1 8 4 9 7 3 6 5 2 1) and remember them seperate then you can remember about 4 numbers (4 7 1 8) (avg person) however if you cluster them in groups then you can remember 4 groups (471 849 736 521
nielso212 3 years ago
ty very helpfull
2mus1c2 3 years ago
holy i got all of them right...but now i forgot my pin number
reelsask 3 years ago
Derren Brown will be able to tell you your pin number, don't worry ;)
P1ranh4 3 years ago
this is an ancient memory technique used most famously of by Metrodorus of Sepsis, and brought to dizzying heights by Giodarno Bruno who was accused of sorcery in the 16th century and tortured continually by the inquisition for 9 years before finally being burned at the stake. Bruno was actually one of the most brilliant and original thinkers Europe has ever produced and his torture is one of the mast shamefull and nightmarish episodes of European intellectual history.
wojiwodj 3 years ago