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1. Introduction: Who doesn't want a
stronger memory, but you want a stronger memory. I know I do miss
our module through the vulnerable Armani
talks media company which helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve their communication
skills so they can articulate their ideas with
clarity and confidence. Think about it like this. Imagine that you're
about to give a speech or you just met
someone at a networking event. If we were speech, you
forget soon as you get on stage in the
networking event, you forget the
name of the person that you just spend
time building rapport width in both of these
scenarios is a bad look. Therefore, memory and
communication skills go hand and hand. In this class, you're going to understand the power
of your memory. You're going to understand
unique methodologies on how to improve
your memory recall. You're going to understand
which method is right for you. And we're gonna wrap up with a final project which will allow you to boost your memory. Does that sound good?
Excited? If so, I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. Infinite Memory: A couple of years
back, I was asked to give a best man
speech at a wedding. Now here's a caveat. This was an
international reading. For this international wedding. They were going to be
multiple deaths men. I was excited because at
that stage of my life, I've been practicing
public speaking, working on my delivery skills. I wanted to show off on
the actual speech day. I ended up going first. And afterwards, I saw
the other gentlemen start giving their speeches.
Once they were done. I was shocked. I'm shocked
because so many of them just pulled out their phone and read verbatim
off their phone. Why? Why couldn't you have
memorized your speech? You could have made eye
contact with the audience. Now granted, from
their paradigm, they're doing a good job. They were doing their best
with the information that they had at the moment. But unfortunately,
that's not good enough. The thing that these
gentlemen didn't understand was the
power of their memory. In this era, what
the advancement of information technology
with our cell phones, with all these different notes, it's easy to undermine
how powerful memory is. But for you to get the
most out of this class, I don't want you to put
limits on your memory. I want you to have an
infinite view of your memory. You could memorize as
many things as you want. There is no storage space up. You can keep on getting more and more information into your mind that you
can recall whenever. For practical purposes, that's going to be the
whole tempo for this class. Infinite memory.
3. Memory vs Memory Recall: I know what you're saying.
Broke, but for me, I don't have the best memory. Do you have a grudge? Think about this. You don't
have to answer this out loud, but answer it honestly
with yourself. Do you have a garage? Was there a certain point in your life where
someone digital wrong? This was in the past, but still to this day,
you'll recall it. If you do, then you don't
have a memory problem. Instead, you have a
memory we call problem. Unfortunately, you are not in charge of what you
can recall at, well, this is going to be what we're working mainly on for
the remainder of this class. Understand this. Your memory is great. If you have regrets. If you hold grudges, if you can recall memories
from your childhood, your memory is fine. But we need to sharpen what type of information
that we recall at-will. Luckily, this is a skill set. The more we practice
it, the better we get, the better we get, the more that we are on
our path towards mastery.
4. Strategies to Improve Recall: The next couple of videos
are going to give you some innovative
ways on how you can improve your memory. Recall. Now mind you, you don't have to do all of these
different strategies. What I recommend
is you pick one, you see which one
resonates the most with. Do you keep working on
it, strengthening it? And over time, you could add more strategies on top of that. Start working on
your recall features and you'll build
more confidence. The more confidence
that you have, the easier it will be to
adopt the other strategies. Let's get started
with the first one.
5. Mnemonics: Mnemonics or memory
aids which will help you recall information. My name is Armand Joe three, but ever since I came to the US, I also go by Armand Chowdhury. Even this altered name, Armand Chowdhury is a name that cannot be
pronounced easily. Once I moved from Bangladesh to the United States of America, I noticed that different
people would struggle with it. And each time that I will
try to correct them, each time I would notice the
discomfort in their face. Eventually, I started to
build some mnemonics out. I would say it's Armani
without the eye. And have you ever
ate clam chowder? Yeah, it's kinda like
that clam chowder. Eat. Once they understood
those mnemonics, they never forgot my name. This is amazing. You could do the
same exact thing for whatever type of information that you're trying to recall. You have to get creative as
you're making your mnemonics. It can be some association
that you resonate with where Armand and Armani, our money is a famous
name brand that many people can recognize
along with yourself. Other times you can
just make things rhyme. When you make it run, you will remember it every time. It takes creativity to build
the right mnemonic for whatever information that
you're trying to recall. But understand this, you
are spending time right now for information that you
can forever recall at well, the more time that you spend on building the right
mnemonic for you, the more that you
will be able to recall it in the future at will.
6. Story: Dog, caffeine pills, angry. If I give you information like this is not really information. It's data because it's discreet. But if I say
something like giving caffeine pills to a dog
will make an angry. It takes up a completely
different light. The more variables that you
have in terms of the data, the better off you
are to build a story. This kills two birds
with one stone. One. You got to memorize something because
you're appealing to the language of your mind. The language which
loves stories. Also, you're practicing
your storytelling skills. Whatever piece of data
or information that you're trying to
learn at this point. You can recall in the future, see if you can take your
shot at building a story. Trust me, you're way more creative than
you think you are. And you'll be surprised
when you said the intention to turn
this data into story. How much of a great
storyteller you really are.
7. Recall Small Moments: Anyone who's familiar with Nikola Tesla's life understands that the man was a genius. He was a grid electrical
engineer of his time. And what made them unique was his ability to design
interventions. In his mind. Closes eyes. You would start creating
this invention, fine tuning it, refining it. And once it was done, only then would he make
it in the real-world. This allowed him to be prolific. Where a lot of the
other engineers were failing in the real-world with a lot of the hardware
and the software, etc. He was using his mind as a lab. But for him to have this
much control over his mind, he needed to practice. Growing up. His parents would
often give him a lot of these brain games that
would strengthen his mind. One of the games was to recall small events
from his life. These are events that
were big at the time. However, as we
started to mature, clearly, we're gonna forget
this part of being an adult. But once Nikola Tesla set that intention to recall that
small event from his life, he started to flex his
memory recall muscle. You could do the same thing
in regards to your life. How old are you
now? What about how old you were ten years
ago, 15 years ago. Can you still recall information from those
periods of your life? Try it out. The more you keep flexing
your memory recall, the more debt you recall. Small fragments of your past. Those moments from
your past can extract wisdom that you can
apply to the present.
8. Bonus Tip #1: The first bonus tip is to read the same book every single day. You may be surprised by this because there's so many
different books out there. Why are you just going to read
one book every single day? Now here's a little disclaimer. Just because you're
reading one book every single day does not mean that you stop
reading other books. We're just keeping this as the centerpiece in
our reading journey. The reason that we
want to do this is because the first time
that we read the book, we're simply going to see words. The second time
we read the book, we're still going to see words. The third time that
we read the book, we're gonna see words
with flashes of pictures. And the more that we keep
on reading the book, the more that we're
going to go from seeing pictures to seeing a movie. This is powerful because now
we are exercising our mind. And this helps us
out tremendously. Not to only be able to recall the contents from this book, but if we can recall the content from any particular source, it becomes much easier to
duplicate it in other fields. Try this out for yourself. Is there a certain book that has been
resonating with you? Have you already read
it more than once? Well, try repeating it
more and more and more. And eventually you'll see the
words turn into pictures, and the pictures
turned into a movie.
9. Bonus Tip #2: Bonus number two is to write. When you're writing,
you're engaging so many different faculties that you may not
even be aware of. You're using your memory. You're using the linguistics
portion of your brain. You're using the
motor receptors, sensors of your
brain, and much more. As you're doing this,
your internal world is getting a workout. The more debt you are getting. The active mode of writing where you are
outputting information. Ironically, it becomes much easier to scope
through the fluff. No matter which content
piece that you're consuming. There's always a level
of fluff that's there. In the engineering world, we call it the signal
to noise ratio. Signal is the
meaningful information. Noise is the junk. Writer is able to distinguish between the
signal and the noise. And the more that you write, the more debt you can easily
recall information at will because you are
outputting information. And the two different
faculties of the world are
highly intertwined. So try it out for yourself. Try writing or
wherever you want. A story, a journal, or maybe a fiction novel.
10. Final Project: Now setup for the final project. What I want you to do
is to find a paragraph from any particular source
that resonates with you. It could be from a book, magazine, article,
research paper, etc. Once you have your paragraph, I want you to memorize it
with the use of mnemonics. Just for a refresher. Mnemonics or mental
aids which are designed to help you
recall information. You can design any sort of
mnemonics that you want for this final project.
You can make it rhyme. You can make it personal to you. You can create
associations, et cetera, but mainly use these
mnemonics with the intention of
memorizing this paragraph. Once you're done, I want you
to create a report on it, talking about your experience. How was it like to
memorize this paragraph? How is it like to
design mnemonics? Did you find any challenging
moments with it? Did it come easy to you? Be as in-depth as you
would like to be. And once you are complete
with the report, I want you to post it in the final project
section right on below. Thank you very much for joining this beginner's class into
improving your memory. And if you want more content
from the Armani talks brand, be sure to check out
our monatomic.com, which includes my blogs, podcasts, books, and much
more are monotonic.com. Go on and check it out.
Thank you very much.
Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
