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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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