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30 Days to a better man<br />
memorize. In this way, I get visual stimulation by reading and auditory<br />
stimulation from the reading aloud. And writing things down is one of<br />
the best ways to remember things. These three things done simultaneously<br />
produce a trifecta of memorizing power.<br />
And of course, repetition crams the info into your brain. If I’m having<br />
trouble memorizing a particular piece of information, I’ll keep repeating<br />
the process until I’ve got it down.<br />
I’ve been doing this for years and it has always helped me remember<br />
those pesky details I’ve needed to know for school or other things.<br />
Caveat: I don’t completely abandon other memorizing techniques while<br />
doing this. I often incorporate them in the process when I see they would<br />
work. For example, something else I’ll do is a technique that was used by<br />
those memorization gurus, the ancient Greeks. The Greeks are the originators<br />
of mnemonic devices (from “mnemonikos” which is itself derived<br />
from Mnemosyne, the name of the Goddess of Memory). Orators faced<br />
the daunting task of memorizing long speeches and employed the “method<br />
of loci” in order to do so. They would picture a house and place “objects”<br />
(words they wanted to remember from the speech or poem) in different<br />
rooms in the imaginary house. Then, to remember the speech, they would<br />
“walk” through the house picking up each “object” as they went.<br />
Today’s Task:<br />
Memorize “If” by Rudyard Kipling<br />
Exercising your memorization muscles is clearly beneficial, but many men<br />
are totally out of practice or have never tried. So today we’re going to start<br />
working out those muscles, starting with one of the manliest poems ever<br />
written – “If ” by Rudyard Kipling. It’s a poem that every man should have<br />
thoroughly lodged in his head, ready to conjure up whenever he’s feeling<br />
down.<br />
It’s not too short, but it’s not too long either. I think memorizing it is<br />
doable in the next day or two. Go to it!<br />
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