Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0466: Memorize Proverbs of the Bible

Episode Date: December 21, 2015

Waverly wants to memorize the book of Proverbs. I provide suggestions for tactics to use when memorizing this particularly difficult-to-memorize book of the Bible. 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.

Hey everyone, I decided not to record a podcast episode today because I was out getting my sister's cuckoo clock fixed and one of my pet platypuses sort of knocked over my microphone and destroyed all my equipment. Just kidding. Master of Memory 466. 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.

I love owning my own podcast. Waverly asked a question about memorizing biblical proverbs, and perhaps eventually memorizing the whole book of proverbs. So, Waverly, this is a bit tricky. Obviously, we've done episodes before, and we have lots of resources on the website, masterofmemory.com, about memorizing scripture. But Proverbs, at least as a whole book, is particularly tricky because while some passages are narrative, and they kind of continue from beginning to end, particularly chapters 1 through 9 and chapter 31, the rest of the book really consists of just a big collection of separate proverbs that aren't sequential and aren't related.

They don't really tie one to another. So what I'd recommend doing as far as just starting this project goes is, first of all, just see the intro to how to memorize scripture. If you just Google basics of scripture memorization or scripture memorization basics or anything like that, my page should be the first thing to come up. So just basics of scripture memorization at masterofmemory.com. Then the next thing I would do is once you kind of understand the techniques, start memorizing the topics and key verses from chapters 1 through 9 and chapter 31. As I've described in other episodes on the podcast about memorizing the

main subjects or the main topics and key verses of scripture passages. But then most of the rest of the chapters have nothing tying the verses together except the chapter number itself. And that's the value of mnemonics. So if you want to remember what all is in chapter 10 of Proverbs, the fact is the Proverbs in chapter 10 are very much like the Proverbs in chapter 15 as far as what topics they cover and things like that, but we can use mnemonics, we can use memory tricks to tie all of these together sort of artificially in our mind so that we can always find those Proverbs in chapter 10 because they're indexed that way in our heads. So what you're going to do is you're going to group all of the proverbs from

chapter 10 into a geographic area, like you might imagine them all taking place on the 10th block of your neighborhood. And that'll help you remember where you can look them up. Now my suggestion is that when you're doing these chapters 10 through 30, just start by memorizing your favorite proverb from each of those chapters and associating it with a distinct location, like a different room in your house. And then just memorize the rest of the proverbs from each of those chapters, associating them with those same corresponding locations, those same rooms in your house or blocks on your street or whatever it is. And that should get you a long way in memorizing the book of Proverbs.

Now, for everyone listening, make sure to go to masterofmemory.com slash start just to make sure that you can understand what I go over in these episodes. It's a starter guide to mnemonics and accelerated learning. And a lot of the things that I mentioned in these episodes are based on that. So masterofmemory.com slash start for a complete starter guide on how to do accelerated learning and make mnemonics work for whatever it is that you're learning. Now, if you want specific information on what you want to learn, go to masterofmemory.com slash question and leave your question there like Waverly did. What do you want to learn? The world's knowledge can be yours. Check out masterofmemory.com slash start, and I'll talk to you again soon.