Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0360: Applying Scripture memory tactics to non-Scripture memory

Episode Date: July 24, 2015

Agneta asks about applying Master of Memory’s materials to subjects beyond Scripture memory. I talk about how many of our Scripture memory tactics can be applied to various other memory projects. What do you want to learn? Leave your question at http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music credit: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet, 2nd movement, performed by the US Army Band.

Master of Memory, episode 360. Welcome to Master of Memory. I'm Timothy, and I'm here to answer your accelerated learning questions every day and to inspire and empower you to learn anything you want to learn faster than ever. Agneta submitted a written question at masterofmemory.com slash question. Agneta says, You keep adding new courses on learning to remember different books of the Bible. I admire that, but will you be adding new courses on learning to remember different books of the Bible. I admire

that, but will you be adding new courses on something else than religion and its books? It's just not that interesting for a non-believer. And I already speak Spanish, otherwise that would be a good option. So this is an interesting question, Agneta, because the fact is that the materials at Master of Memory are user-driven. We create courses based on what people are actually willing to invest time in learning. And so far, we've had people invested in scripture memorization and in Spanish. And then, of course, we have a lot of interest in our poetry course, which is coming up and that we're making some good developments on, and we'll have some things released very soon. But the fact is, I mean, we always have ideas and we always

have courses out there to create. But the fact is, it's just based on what people are willing to learn. And if I can collaborate with people, like I invite in almost every single episode, to collaborate with me on particular learning requests, we can make a course out of it for other people to enjoy as well. But the sad fact of the matter is that many people are not action takers, and they'll ask questions but not really do anything with it, so that's why there are certain things that aren't out there. But I thought that I might take this question and use it to talk about applying the Scripture memory tactics that we teach to other things as well. So when you look at scripture memorization, particularly

with regard to scripture passages that are sorted by verses, the advantage of this is you have chapters, you have verses. So basically you have already chunks from a passage. You've taken a passage and chunked it down into little parts, into verses that can be referenced. This actually makes the memorization a lot easier because some decisions have been taken away from the process. You now have a way to chunk it down and memorize little parts of it instead of memorizing, you know, seeing a big block of text and going, oh boy, how am I going to memorize all of that? Now, that's something that can be applied to passages.

You want to memorize anything else? Chunk it down into little parts, and you can memorize it more easily because some of the decisions have been taken care of. Now, the key verse concept that we talk about can be applied to other subjects as well. This is the principle of exclusivity and scattering what you're learning throughout the whole project. So, for example, when we're learning Spanish dialogues, instead of learning them from the beginning to. So, for example, when we're learning Spanish dialogues, instead of learning them from the beginning to the end, we take some key parts of the dialogues, memorize those first,

and then the rest of the passage will be easy to memorize between the beginning and the end, and between all of those little things that we've already memorized. Because as you're listening to the dialogue, the parts that you've memorized will come naturally, and your mind will still be alert in between those key verses or those key sentences that we've memorized. So you see how I'm applying the same tactic not just to scripture, but to memorizing other things as well. This can be applied to anything where you're memorizing a long script. Just memorize a few sentences throughout the whole script, and everything else, as you're listening and studying it further, will fall into place between the skeleton that you've put together. The key word concept that we teach when you're taking any verse, whether it's a key verse or

any of the verses in between, and memorizing them individually, the key word concept is that you take just a few words, maybe just two words per maybe 10 to 20 words. You're taking a very small percentage of the words, but the ones that will trigger the rest of it. And you're drilling on those, and you'll probably have a very easy time remembering the words in between those, particularly if you're using your auditory memory to memorize the flesh of the verse. So you remember just, say, from a poem, for example, you memorize just one word per line. And if you have those words strongly memorized,

then if you've heard the poem a few times, remembering those words will trigger the entire line. You can apply that to any passage memorization, poetry, scripts, little quotes, or presentations that you're giving. Just remember the key words and you can remember the stuff in between because they're triggers for everything else. A last thing that I would mention as something that you can take from our approach to scripture memorization and apply really to anything else is to learn the essentials first and then learn in volume. We start our scripture courses by learning just the essentials of the book, just the topics of each chapter and some of the key verses,

and then we learn a whole lot of verses, often five verses a day, after that point, because it's easy once you have the essentials down. That will apply far and wide, but to see exactly how we do this, you can just check out how we put our courses together and how it is that you create an effective teaching or learning plan for other subjects as well. So, for example, the James course at masterofmemory.com slash james is completely free. Anybody can go out there and look at it, see how we put it together, how we organized it from beginning to end,

and then just base another course on that because it's effective, and you can just follow that as an outline for something other than Scripture memory. Now, as always, I invite listeners to find something that you want to learn. Leave it at masterofmemory.com slash question, or even just shoot me an email at timothyatmasterofmemory.com and let us know what it is that you want to learn because the purpose of all of our podcasts and our courses is to have the best way to learn something out there for free for you to access as well. Just let us know what you want to learn.

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