Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0558: Reprise: How to memorize topics of the Bible

Episode Date: April 27, 2016

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Hey guys, this is Timothy, and I'm publishing a book. Now, this may not be new news to all of you, but I bring it up because it's temporarily changing some things here on the show. We're going to be running a series of reprise episodes for the next few weeks due to my need to focus exclusively on this writing project. The book is going to cover absolutely everything about language hacking that I've learned from years of working directly with fluency coaching students and native speaking coaches to see what truly works and gets amazing results. It's going to be a high-end book with the hardcover copy priced at around $40, and that's if I can keep it as short as I'd like to keep it.

But as podcast listeners, you can actually get a free digital copy of the book if you sign up early. Just go to Spanishin1month.com, and you'll be on the early bird list to get access to the book the day that it's released. Meanwhile, for now, enjoy this rerun of one of my favorite episodes from the last few months. 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. Sean wrote in an email, I'm interested in starting out on that first step of making palaces for each book of the Bible, rooms for each chapter, and memorizing the themes of the chapters. What I'm confused on is how to incorporate the themes into the palaces. It seems that you classified those as

different from the pegs. How do you implement the themes, the topics, into the memory palace? Or do you put them in the memory palace at all? On a different subject, thanks for the video on how to improve listening in another language. That's helped me out already. So yeah, Sean, on that other subject, and as a quick comment for all the listeners, in the near future you're going to be seeing a lot more free resources like that video about listening skills that you mentioned, the guide that we've created for starting up with mnemonics that I mentioned in the previous episode, and things like that. I'm excited about lots of projects that are underway at Master of Memory. We're growing, and I'm really wanting to improve your whole user experience and really arm you all

with more than just the inspiration and information of the podcast, but with real hands-on stuff to get you concrete results with whatever it is that you're learning. Now to answer your question about learning topics of chapters of the Bible, there are two approaches. And the first is, if you're interested in memorizing a whole book of the Bible, I would say that just simply memorize the key verses of each of those chapters. So choose your topics, but then choose the verse that represents that topic best from that section, and just memorize all of those verses. That way you've effectively placed the topic into the palace,

and you've already started memorizing the passage. And then all the other verses, when you eventually learn them, will go in between. So as you know, to do this, you'll be basically choosing rooms for your chapters, subdivisions of the room for the verses. So if a chapter has 21 verses, then you'll choose 21 places throughout the room. And then the objects represent the numbers for the verses, your object pegs. So just memorize one verse per topic that represents the topic fairly well. And the thing is, when you think of the room, you're going to remember those three verses. So in effect, when you think of the room, you're going to remember those three verses. So in effect, when you think of a chapter like John chapter 3, you'll remember the three topics of John chapter 3 because of a while, is that you might actually turn the numbers

themselves, the number of the chapter, for example, into a physical object with certain topics along that object. So you're sort of turning your object into a memory palace itself. And this is actually what I did myself first a while ago, years ago, when I memorized the topics of all the chapters of the New Testament, and in particular of the four gospels, I really had to create some object mnemonics in order to make this work. For example, my object for the number nine was a bicycle, and in Luke chapter nine, there are about nine or ten things that happen throughout the chapter, but I simply placed the events along the bicycle, starting with the handlebars and then proceeding along the neck of the bike to the seat and then the back wheel.

I just place the different events along that object. So those are two approaches you could take. The second one would be quicker and easier, but the second one will give you a head start on actually memorizing the whole book if that's your intended result. I hope that helps, Sean, and thanks for the question. For everyone listening, what do you want to learn? The world's knowledge can be yours. Leave your learning request at masterofmemory.com slash question, and I'll talk to you again soon. Thank you.