Valuetainment - Episode 347： How To Improve Your Brain Power

00:00:00.000 30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach

00:00:09.240 the sky, touch the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the

00:00:16.220 underdog.

00:00:17.300 I'm Patrick B. David, your host of A. Tim, and today's guest is Ron Wyde, who can teach

00:00:22.320 you how to improve your memory and also how to improve your brain power.

00:00:25.940 Ron, thank you for being here.

00:00:26.920 Thank you, thank you for having me on.

00:00:28.440 It's good to have you here, man.

00:00:29.660 I'm excited about it.

00:00:30.820 I've heard about you and known about you for a while now, and so it's an honor to finally

00:00:34.700 be here.

00:00:35.460 Well, it's good to have you.

00:00:36.200 The only thing that's interesting when you were telling me about your memory is, so obviously

00:00:39.780 he's very good with memories, but the only thing he has a hard time remembering is he

00:00:44.380 met a girl he called Mary Jennifer, and he got a black eye from it, so if he can tell

00:00:47.940 the black eye.

00:00:49.600 Tell us how you got your black eye so we can get that one knocked out of the way.

00:00:52.340 Right, well, knocked out's pretty much how it happened.

00:00:54.160 And I do jiu-jitsu, and Tuesday night I had somebody at my guard, which basically means

00:01:00.080 I had my legs wrapped around him.

00:01:01.420 I was on my back, and I decided to sweep them.

00:01:03.700 In other words, put them on their back.

00:01:05.380 Yep.

00:01:06.380 And I had my success of doing that.

00:01:07.600 He elbowed me in the face, which it worked. 1.00

00:01:11.300 He elbowed you in the face?

00:01:13.300 Yeah.

00:01:14.300 It worked.

00:01:15.300 I did not sweep him, but it's technically not in the rules, but he's a good friend,

00:01:20.820 and it's all in fun.

00:01:22.640 How long have you been doing jiu-jitsu?

00:01:23.640 About six years.

00:01:24.640 Six years.

00:01:25.640 Yeah.

00:01:26.640 Okay, cool.

00:01:27.640 So let's get right into it.

00:01:28.640 I just want to get right into it.

00:01:29.640 How does somebody become, because here's a few things you tell me.

00:01:31.900 When you tell me, I can take this deck of cards out, and I can mix the card, shuffle

00:01:36.400 it, give it to you.

00:01:37.400 You'll go through the cards, and you can recite the 52 cards.

00:01:41.520 Not looking at it, you can recite them one at a time.

00:01:43.460 Correct.

00:01:44.460 You can do that.

00:01:45.460 I can't do it as fast as I used to be able to do it, but I can do it.

00:01:47.820 That's insanity to me.

00:01:49.340 And also the Afghanistan wall that's got all the names on there, 2,400 names.

00:01:54.880 You can recite the 2,400 names.

00:01:56.560 It may take you three or four hours, but you can do it.

00:01:58.560 That's right.

00:01:59.560 That's crazy.

00:02:00.560 That's insanity when you say it to me.

00:02:02.680 Right.

00:02:03.680 I mean, you remember someone's name you do business with, people are impressed to say,

00:02:06.560 how do you remember my name?

00:02:07.560 That was six months ago.

00:02:08.560 2,400 names is ridiculous.

00:02:11.560 Well, it is.

00:02:12.560 The process of memory is actually very simple, though.

00:02:15.560 Tell us.

00:02:16.560 Whatever you want to remember, you got to turn it into a picture.

00:02:19.060 You have to be able to see it.

00:02:20.560 So when I think of the name Patrick, I think of a leprechaun, you know, or St. Patrick's

00:02:24.800 thing, right?

00:02:25.800 I appreciate that.

00:02:26.800 It's good luck, right?

00:02:27.800 When I meet somebody named Mike, I will think of a microphone.

00:02:31.920 In other words, it's very simple.

00:02:33.800 It's the process of seeing a picture instead of an abstract such as a name.

00:02:38.800 Now, here's the challenging part, though.

00:02:41.340 When people say, okay, Ron, I get that.

00:02:42.920 But how do you remember 2,400 people who died?

00:02:46.480 That's not just Mike is a microphone, Patrick is a leprechaun.

00:02:50.420 That's 2,400 people.

00:02:51.920 Ranked, first name, last name, that's 7,000 words.

00:02:54.920 Yep.

00:02:55.920 And the downside of that is that is when people see me set up this wall.

00:03:01.040 It's 52 feet long.

00:03:02.040 It's eight feet high.

00:03:02.800 It looks like the Vietnam wall. 0.80

00:03:04.420 And they say me take eight hours and write out all 7,000 words.

00:03:09.120 They're like, this is an amazing display of memory.

00:03:12.160 I say, no, no, no, no.

00:03:13.420 This is an amazing display of discipline because to sit down and just do it is what really took

00:03:19.760 the hard work.

00:03:20.760 In other words, the process is simple.

00:03:22.980 It's Patrick, leprechaun.

00:03:25.060 Steve is a stove.

00:03:26.560 Lisa is the Mona Lisa.

00:03:28.240 But when compounded over 7,000, that's when it gets hard.

00:03:32.700 But the process itself is still very simple.

00:03:35.100 So let me ask you, this would be a question I would ask because a lot of times in the world

00:03:39.160 of business when, you know, somebody meets someone that's got a great memory.

00:03:43.180 How do you remember?

00:03:44.180 We met a year and a half ago.

00:03:45.180 You were doing this much business.

00:03:46.180 And I remember when you and I spoke, you were doing this.

00:03:47.860 And I remember you were telling me about your daughter wasn't feeling too good.

00:03:51.220 People are enamored by it, right?

00:03:52.540 So some say, some say you were born with a great memory and others say it's taught.

00:03:59.140 So is memory thing something that you were born with this kind of a memory?

00:04:02.880 Or was it something that you learned a system by meeting somebody that helped you become

00:04:07.300 as good as you are right now?

00:04:08.300 Yeah.

00:04:09.300 So the biggest challenge I have, I've been doing this 28 years.

00:04:11.800 I started when I was 18, so I'll let everybody do the math and figure out how old I am.

00:04:15.800 But 28 years ago, I was an 18-year-old kid.

00:04:18.040 I was going to the University of North Texas, kinda.

00:04:20.800 You know, I was signed up.

00:04:21.800 I ended up getting kicked out.

00:04:22.800 I had a 0.9 GPA.

00:04:23.800 That's impressive about that.

00:04:24.800 Thank you.

00:04:25.800 On this channel, that's a very impressive YouTube.

00:04:28.800 It's pretty hard to do.

00:04:29.800 0.9.

00:04:30.800 But during that time, I met a guy that teaches memory seminars.

00:04:35.800 I was a telemarketer, and I was making cold calls one day.

00:04:39.800 And I called this guy and I said, hey, can we come clean your chimney?

00:04:42.800 He's like, we don't want our chimney cleaned.

00:04:44.800 We're trying to sell our house.

00:04:45.800 Thanks for asking.

00:04:46.800 And he started to hang up the phone.

00:04:47.800 And as he was hanging up the phone, I said, sir, don't hang up the phone.

00:04:51.800 If you're trying to sell your house, you need a clean chimney.

00:04:54.800 He laughed.

00:04:55.800 He said, I don't know about that, but I do need a good telemarketer.

00:04:58.800 Do you want to go to work for me?

00:04:59.800 I sell memory training seminars, and I'll pay you more than you're making now.

00:05:04.800 Which was, you know, a pretty safe bet.

00:05:06.800 Anybody could have said that, and they'd have been right.

00:05:08.800 Of course.

00:05:09.800 But that's such a crucial part of what I do, that story, because people always assume,

00:05:13.800 hey, you've held all these memory records.

00:05:15.800 You went up against a Home Depot computer.

00:05:17.800 You must have a natural gift.

00:05:19.800 Now, I don't think I was a dumb guy, but I don't think I had any special ability either.

00:05:24.800 This guy taught me a system that I learned, and I really believe anybody can improve their memory.

00:05:29.800 Pre-meeting him.

00:05:31.800 This is very interesting because this validates that, you know, the memory, you sold memory,

00:05:35.800 so you also learned the content that he was teaching to others.

00:05:39.800 You internalized it yourself at the age of 18, so that probably helped you out.

00:05:42.800 But prior to that, if I was in high school with you, if we were friends when we were 10 years old, 12 years old,

00:05:47.800 were you a phenom?

00:05:48.800 Were you somebody that people said, this guy's a proto.

00:05:50.800 He's coming up.

00:05:51.800 He's a brilliant guy.

00:05:53.800 He's great in school.

00:05:54.800 Did you have that kind of a reputation or no?

00:05:56.800 I did well in school, in high school, clearly not in college.

00:05:59.800 But, you know, I don't think there was any sign.

00:06:02.800 Albert Einstein was not in my family tree.

00:06:05.800 But I always say to people this.

00:06:07.800 Do you think that if you met somebody who was fluent in Spanish and you worked under them

00:06:13.800 and they coached you to learn the Spanish language, could you learn it?

00:06:16.800 Oh, of course I could learn a different language if I actually worked at it and had a tutor or whatever.

00:06:21.800 So that's all I did.

00:06:22.800 I worked at memory.

00:06:23.800 I had a memory tutor, and I became fluent in the language of memory.

00:06:27.800 I became fluent in the language of memory.

00:06:30.800 Yeah.

00:06:31.800 That's a very good way of putting it because you simply learned a language of how to memorize.

00:06:35.800 Correct.

00:06:36.800 And there's a language to learning how to do that.

00:06:38.800 There is.

00:06:39.800 And the unique thing is, is not many people know this language.

00:06:41.800 So when somebody speaks the language, we're looked at as a savant.

00:06:45.800 But it's no different from becoming fluent in Spanish or German or whatever.

00:06:49.800 Okay, so why don't we do this?

00:06:50.800 Why don't we start off with something simple?

00:06:52.800 Back in the days, you know, if you remembered phone numbers, like I can still recite many different phone numbers,

00:06:57.800 but people don't remember phone numbers anymore.

00:06:59.800 Is there a system different of remembering phone numbers versus names for you?

00:07:03.800 Well, the concepts are the same in that whatever you want to remember, you have to turn it into a picture.

00:07:09.800 All of it, no matter what we're looking at.

00:07:11.800 Correct.

00:07:12.800 You want to remember numbers, you've got to have images, substitute images for numbers.

00:07:18.800 For example, the number 21, let's think of a substitute picture for it.

00:07:23.800 What could that be?

00:07:24.800 What do you think?

00:07:25.800 21, maybe a Las Vegas blackjack game.

00:07:28.800 Three sevens, sure.

00:07:29.800 Yeah.

00:07:30.800 So for me, I think of a blackjack table for 21.

00:07:33.800 For the number 11, I think of a goal post.

00:07:36.800 You know, on a football field, you've got the upright slope.

00:07:39.800 Got to be visual.

00:07:40.800 Got it.

00:07:41.800 The number from one to a thousand, I have a picture for.

00:07:44.800 My picture for the number 527 is actually right behind you on that wall.

00:07:49.800 Abraham Lincoln is 527 to me.

00:07:52.800 Now, why?

00:07:53.800 I use a technique known as the major system.

00:07:56.800 And this is where, explaining this, I'm always hesitant because as soon as I explain this,

00:08:01.800 everybody's like, oh, I got it.

00:08:02.800 I got it.

00:08:03.800 This is good.

00:08:04.800 And then I start talking about this and they're like, oh my gosh, this is too complicated.

00:08:06.800 But it's not.

00:08:08.800 Every digit, zero to nine, I have a letter assigned to.

00:08:13.800 Five, I've assigned to the letter L.

00:08:16.800 Two, I've assigned to the letter N.

00:08:18.800 And when I say I've assigned it, it's actually well before me.

00:08:21.800 It came out hundreds of years ago.

00:08:23.800 Five is the letter L.

00:08:26.800 Five is L.

00:08:27.800 Five is L.

00:08:28.800 Two is N.

00:08:29.800 Two is N.

00:08:30.800 And seven is the ca sound.

00:08:32.800 So it could be made with a C or a K.

00:08:34.800 Okay.

00:08:35.800 So if you have the number 527, you have Lincoln, right?

00:08:40.800 Or I do.

00:08:41.800 Abraham Lincoln.

00:08:42.800 So if you want to remember a number, it needs to be a picture.

00:08:46.800 If you want to remember a name, it needs to be a picture.

00:08:49.800 Everything you want to remember, the first step is to create a picture for it.

00:08:53.800 So Kenya just, you came in here a minute ago and Kenya asked you, she said, what's my

00:08:57.800 lucky number?

00:08:58.800 And you said, one, zero, one, five.

00:09:00.800 And then I don't know what you said after that.

00:09:01.800 That's good.

00:09:02.800 Was it one, zero, one, five?

00:09:03.800 Yeah.

00:09:04.800 One, zero, one, five.

00:09:05.800 And then you went through all these other numbers.

00:09:06.800 How does he remember a number like that?

00:09:08.800 Right.

00:09:09.800 So was it the same formula you used as this one right now you're showing?

00:09:12.800 Yes.

00:09:13.800 So when she showed me the number, one, zero, one is toast for me.

00:09:17.800 So, you know, like toast you eat.

00:09:20.800 Five, two, seven, which was the next number I already shared with you.

00:09:24.800 Abraham Lincoln.

00:09:25.800 Two, zero, eight.

00:09:26.800 Two, zero, eight.

00:09:27.800 Remember, two is N. 0.84

00:09:28.800 Mm-hmm.

00:09:29.800 Zero is the sa sound, an S, and eight is the V sound. 0.58

00:09:34.800 So for two, zero, eight, I have a news vendor.

00:09:37.800 So she said one, zero, one, five, two, seven, two, zero, eight.

00:09:41.800 I just imagined Abraham Lincoln eating toast, getting a newspaper.

00:09:45.800 There was one more digit on the N3 that I just remembered.

00:09:48.800 But it's a, remembering a long number like that, which is 10 digits, probably takes a

00:09:53.800 little bit of practice.

00:09:54.800 I'm not going to lie to you.

00:09:55.800 Nobody's going to listen to this interview right here and then tomorrow go memorize a

00:09:59.800 10-digit number.

00:10:00.800 Sure, sure.

00:10:01.800 And here's why.

00:10:02.800 Because they're not going to have pictures for five, two, seven, one, zero, one, or two,

00:10:05.800 zero.

00:10:06.800 It's going to sound like too much work.

00:10:07.800 So I wouldn't recommend anybody starting there.

00:10:10.800 I'd recommend them starting with more simple things and kind of building up to that.

00:10:15.800 We kind of jumped right into probably the most difficult thing to memorize.

00:10:18.800 Which is numbers.

00:10:19.800 Correct.

00:10:20.800 Okay.

00:10:21.800 So how about a book?

00:10:22.800 I'm a business guy.

00:10:23.800 I'm reading books.

00:10:24.800 I got a million things on my mind.

00:10:25.800 I'm like, man, I don't see value in me reading books.

00:10:27.800 It's wasting four hours of my time.

00:10:29.800 And I'm probably going to leave thinking to remember two things about books.

00:10:32.800 How do you memorize the content?

00:10:35.800 Not necessarily memorize, but consume the best part of the content.

00:10:38.800 Is there a method to that madness as well or no?

00:10:40.800 Yes, there is.

00:10:41.800 And so what I would say is with what we jumped to right here was with numbers, maybe the most

00:10:47.800 difficult thing to grasp and understand.

00:10:49.800 And so let me jump to the most easiest thing to understand with memory and then show you

00:10:56.800 how you could use that easiest thing to remember what you read.

00:11:00.800 So there's a technique that it goes back 2,500 years.

00:11:03.800 I didn't come up with it.

00:11:04.800 It's called the mind palace or the memory palace.

00:11:07.800 And it is what I used when I set the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards.

00:11:12.800 Right now I'm memorizing a constitution, the U.S. Constitution.

00:11:16.800 I'm using...

00:11:17.800 That's craziness.

00:11:18.800 Yeah, right.

00:11:19.800 4,500 words you were saying, right?

00:11:20.800 That's right.

00:11:21.800 That's right.

00:11:22.800 It's called the mind palace.

00:11:23.800 And here's the idea to it.

00:11:25.800 Everybody right now that's watching or listening to this interview, you could close your eyes

00:11:30.800 and visualize your house.

00:11:31.800 You could visualize, okay, I'm standing in the front door.

00:11:34.800 Right over here is my refrigerator.

00:11:36.800 This is my stove.

00:11:37.800 This is my sink.

00:11:38.800 This is, you know, whatever.

00:11:39.800 Go all the way around your house.

00:11:41.800 We all already have our homes memorized.

00:11:44.800 So let's use that to our benefit.

00:11:46.800 Let's imagine, pretend right now, you're standing in the doorway to your house and the doorway opens.

00:11:53.800 What would be immediately to your left?

00:11:56.800 My office.

00:11:57.800 Your office.

00:11:58.800 So let's go into the office.

00:11:59.800 Now we're standing at the doorway to the office.

00:12:01.800 What's immediately to your left?

00:12:02.800 The table made out of a ceramic that my dad made with PHP's logo on.

00:12:08.800 And when it got started with the chest on top of it and a painting of Lincoln to the left.

00:12:12.800 Wow.

00:12:13.800 So that's visual.

00:12:14.800 Now you love Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln.

00:12:16.800 Oh no doubt.

00:12:17.800 Yes.

00:12:18.800 Wow.

00:12:19.800 I want to hear that story sometime.

00:12:20.800 So on that table, I want you to imagine a washing machine, okay?

00:12:25.800 So imagine the washing machine's going around.

00:12:27.800 Soap's flying out.

00:12:28.800 Yep.

00:12:29.800 So you got it?

00:12:30.800 Yep.

00:12:31.800 So you just told me that the table there and then next to it's the picture of Lincoln.

00:12:33.800 Mm-hmm.

00:12:34.800 On the picture of Lincoln, I want you to imagine there's a dam and Abraham Lincoln pictures

00:12:39.800 holding back water behind that dam and maybe the dam breaks.

00:12:42.800 Okay.

00:12:43.800 Let's do five in this room. 0.99

00:12:45.800 So that's one, two.

00:12:46.800 What's the next piece of furniture over?

00:12:48.800 If I'm going left and what's to the right?

00:12:50.800 Well, let's keep going around the room clockwise.

00:12:53.800 So let's go around them clockwise.

00:12:55.800 So, okay.

00:12:56.800 So if I went left, I just told you what's on the left side.

00:12:59.800 Lincoln painting and a ceramic table.

00:13:02.800 There's a washing machine on top of it with the painting holding the dam.

00:13:05.800 If you keep going around, there's boxes sitting there with my Sonos mic that I haven't installed

00:13:12.800 yet from the old house because I moved into this new house.

00:13:15.800 That's in that corner.

00:13:16.800 On the, so it's boxes?

00:13:19.800 Multiple, 12 boxes.

00:13:20.800 Okay.

00:13:21.800 On those boxes, let's have a chef over there. 1.00

00:13:23.800 The chef is cooking your favorite meal.

00:13:25.800 Okay.

00:13:26.800 What would your favorite meal?

00:13:27.800 Sushi.

00:13:28.800 Sushi.

00:13:29.800 Cooking sushi or whatever.

00:13:30.800 Look at those boxes and taste the sushi.

00:13:31.800 Okay.

00:13:32.800 So now we've got a washing machine, we've got a dam, and we've got a chef.

00:13:35.800 Okay.

00:13:36.800 Let's go, we're going to do two more.

00:13:37.800 One more over.

00:13:38.800 What's the next piece of furniture?

00:13:39.800 It's going to be my leather chair that I have right behind my desk.

00:13:44.800 Okay.

00:13:45.800 On that leather chair, imagine you're sick.

00:13:47.800 You're throwing up.

00:13:48.800 You're just terribly sick.

00:13:49.800 You sit down in that chair and you take your medicine.

00:13:51.800 You're taking NyQuil.

00:13:52.800 You're taking Tylenol.

00:13:53.800 Medicine's all over the chair.

00:13:54.800 So what's in the chair?

00:13:55.800 It's me.

00:13:56.800 I'm taking medicine.

00:13:57.800 It's NyQuil all over the chair.

00:13:59.800 Very good.

00:14:00.800 Okay.

00:14:01.800 One more last one in that room.

00:14:02.800 What's the furniture?

00:14:03.800 The furniture is a old classic presidential type of a desk that's sitting there.

00:14:09.800 I don't know how to describe it, but it's a presidential desk.

00:14:12.800 Awesome.

00:14:13.800 So on that desk, I want you to imagine there's a guy in a rowboat and he's rowing a boat and

00:14:17.800 he's just rowing a boat down that desk.

00:14:19.800 Across the table.

00:14:20.800 Okay.

00:14:21.800 You got that?

00:14:22.800 Yep.

00:14:23.800 What were the five, can you remember the five pictures?

00:14:26.800 Let's start at the table.

00:14:28.800 What's on top of it is a dishwasher.

00:14:30.800 Correct.

00:14:31.800 Lincoln is holding back a dam.

00:14:32.800 Right.

00:14:33.800 On top of the microphones is my chef making sushi for me.

00:14:37.800 On the leather chair, I have NyQuil all over the place because I spilled it all over the

00:14:43.800 place.

00:14:44.800 And there's a guy on top of the table rowing a boat.

00:14:46.800 Booyah.

00:14:47.800 That's it.

00:14:48.800 All right.

00:14:49.800 Perfect.

00:14:50.800 We took the first five presidents of the United States, turned their last names into

00:14:54.800 a picture.

00:14:55.800 So on the first one, we got a washing machine for Washington.

00:14:58.800 On the next one, we got a dam for Adams, a dam Adams.

00:15:02.800 On the next one, we got a chef for Jefferson, old Thomas Jefferson, right?

00:15:06.800 Jefferson, Jefferson.

00:15:07.800 The next one, medicine for Madison.

00:15:10.800 And the next one, man row for Monroe.

00:15:13.800 So I've literally taught six year old kids to memorize the presidents of the United States

00:15:19.800 this way.

00:15:20.800 And they'll, they'll memorize the presidents in like 60 minutes.

00:15:22.800 And they're, they're seven, eight years old.

00:15:24.800 Unbelievable.

00:15:25.800 Yeah.

00:15:26.800 It's called the mind palace.

00:15:27.800 And I wish I could say I'm a genius.

00:15:29.800 I came up with it.

00:15:30.800 Yeah.

00:15:31.800 But you just see how easy it is.

00:15:33.800 Now, if you, all you have to do to memorize all the presidents is just continue walking

00:15:37.800 through your house.

00:15:38.800 Let me ask you, who's doing this to teach business owners about this ability?

00:15:41.800 Like, is anybody doing that to teach?

00:15:42.800 Is there like a course for this?

00:15:44.800 Is there some, can somebody, can you do a weekend course and go teach them on how to get

00:15:48.800 your memory to be better?

00:15:49.800 That's what I do.

00:15:50.800 And you do that on a what?

00:15:51.800 You do that on a one hour speaking gig or you do that as a three day conference?

00:15:54.800 Both.

00:15:55.800 You know, I'd say 70% of my speeches are one hour keynotes at conferences, but we also

00:16:01.800 do extended events.

00:16:02.800 Yeah.

00:16:03.800 There's, there's more to that.

00:16:05.800 I mean, that can get really deep there with the memory part.

00:16:08.800 Very, very interesting.

00:16:09.800 Very interesting.

00:16:10.800 Okay.

00:16:11.800 So, so if you want to, if you want to lead me, because you said math, the numbers will

00:16:15.800 be the toughest part.

00:16:16.800 What you just taught me, which is the dam for Adams, the, the chef, you know, the, the

00:16:22.800 washing machine for Washington, the chef for Jefferson, the, uh, uh, medicine for Madison

00:16:29.800 and the role for Monroe Monroe.

00:16:31.800 Okay.

00:16:32.800 So those five, I remember to myself right now with the presidents, right?

00:16:34.800 Right.

00:16:35.800 So we're going with that.

00:16:36.800 And by the way, you know, what's so crazy in the army, we, uh, in Navy, you were in the

00:16:41.800 Navy, obviously.

00:16:42.800 Thank you for your service.

00:16:43.800 But in the army, when you were remembering generals and I was sitting with General McChrystal,

00:16:47.800 he's a four star general.

00:16:48.800 Wow.

00:16:49.800 And we have, we were interviewing him.

00:16:51.800 I said, uh, you're a four star general.

00:16:53.800 I said, you know how I learned my generals?

00:16:55.800 He says, what?

00:16:56.800 I said, be my little general.

00:16:57.800 He says, what do you mean?

00:16:58.800 I says, B is brigadier general.

00:17:00.800 That's one star.

00:17:02.800 My is a major general, two star.

00:17:05.800 Little is lieutenant general.

00:17:08.800 It's a three star.

00:17:09.800 And be my little general general is a four star.

00:17:12.800 He says, I'd never heard that before.

00:17:13.800 I said, my sergeant taught me that when I was coming back in AIT, cause you have to take

00:17:18.800 the test to remember, you know, uh, what all the ranks mean.

00:17:21.800 How do you process in your brain?

00:17:22.800 This is very interesting when you're teaching a method you're, you're, you're talking about.

00:17:26.800 Okay.

00:17:27.800 So going back to it.

00:17:28.800 So you said the most simplest one is the one you just shared.

00:17:30.800 What's the next one?

00:17:31.800 Well, everything actually kind of builds on this memory palace.

00:17:35.800 So now there's just different ways that we can use it.

00:17:38.800 Let's say we want to use it to remember what you read, which is what, what you had asked.

00:17:42.800 So let's say you got a book.

00:17:43.800 I don't recommend people memorize as they read.

00:17:47.800 I recommend they have a highlighter or a pen or a notepad over here.

00:17:51.800 And as they read, they highlight or underline the key points, which is what most people do.

00:17:55.800 Correct.

00:17:56.800 Okay.

00:17:57.800 And then when they get to the end of the chapter or the end of the book,

00:17:59.800 now you got all this stuff underlined or highlighted, just go through it.

00:18:03.800 Turn each one of those things into pictures and imagine them around your mind palace or your memory palace.

00:18:10.800 I would say almost everything I memorize, I use this method, the mind palace or the memory palace method,

00:18:15.800 which is visualizing stuff around a room.

00:18:18.800 So I guess the next step after you would really, what really the next step would be is to build your mind palace.

00:18:25.800 So the way I would do it or the way I did do it and the way I would recommend anybody do it is stand in the doorway of every room in your house like we did.

00:18:34.800 And number five pieces of furniture going clockwise around the room.

00:18:38.800 Do that in room number one, room number two, room number three, room number four.

00:18:42.800 Do at least five rooms and get yourself 20 pieces of furniture numbered in your house.

00:18:47.800 So you can say I'm forwards and backwards.

00:18:49.800 Then the next step is, is take whatever it is you want to learn to remember or memorize.

00:18:54.800 And next time you want to remember it, I'm in a meeting with you and you say, hey, Ron, you know, don't forget to call Brian.

00:19:01.800 So immediately I see a telephone, Brian is a brain for me, and I'm putting that on the number one location.

00:19:07.800 So you can be, and I hate to dumb it down and say, use this to remember your things to do list,

00:19:12.800 because I think it can be such more beneficial information.

00:19:16.800 But that's one example right there.

00:19:18.800 Names and faces is something people ask me about a lot.

00:19:21.800 How do you do, how do you do names and faces?

00:19:23.800 In this process, it sounds simple, but it works.

00:19:25.800 I just spoke at a meeting yesterday, and there was probably 150 people in the audience.

00:19:31.800 And as they walked in, I stood at the door and I shook 150 people's hands.

00:19:35.800 And then when I got up on stage, I said, everybody stand up.

00:19:38.800 150 people stood up.

00:19:39.800 Come on.

00:19:40.800 No.

00:19:41.800 And they put their hands over their name tags, and they're like, there is no way.

00:19:44.800 Come on.

00:19:45.800 Yeah, I'm serious.

00:19:46.800 You named all the 150.

00:19:48.800 I got 149.

00:19:49.800 There was this one guy named Joe, and I couldn't think of his name.

00:19:53.800 But I got 149 out of 150.

00:19:55.800 But the process itself is actually pretty simple.

00:19:59.800 And this is what I do.

00:20:01.800 For example, you meet me right now.

00:20:03.800 The black eye is probably what's going to stand out.

00:20:06.800 But hopefully, and I'm hoping, it's going to be gone in a week, you know.

00:20:09.800 So you need to look at my face and pick out something that you think is going to be there in a week or two weeks.

00:20:14.800 Maybe the beard.

00:20:15.800 Maybe the high hairline right here.

00:20:17.800 Whatever.

00:20:18.800 You pick out something unique on the face.

00:20:20.800 And then you take their name.

00:20:23.800 For example, Patrick.

00:20:25.800 Leprechaun for me, right?

00:20:26.800 So I actually visualize a leprechaun running across your eyebrows right there.

00:20:31.800 Running back and forth, you know, maybe eating Lucky Charms or whatever.

00:20:34.800 Don't hit me or anything, all right?

00:20:35.800 It's not an insulting picture.

00:20:37.800 Okay?

00:20:38.800 But that's how I do it.

00:20:40.800 Wow.

00:20:41.800 I was at that conference yesterday.

00:20:43.800 This lady walks in. 1.00

00:20:44.800 She's got really pretty eyes.

00:20:45.800 I say, hi, my name's Ron.

00:20:46.800 She says her name is Lisa.

00:20:48.800 Instantly, I'm painting the Mona Lisa in her eyes.

00:20:51.800 I go to the next guy.

00:20:52.800 This guy, he had, boom, he had huge ears.

00:20:54.800 And he said, my name is Steve.

00:20:57.800 Instantly, I'm cooking his ears in a stove.

00:21:00.800 So then, there was a guy named Mark.

00:21:02.800 He had a really dark beard.

00:21:03.800 So I imagine I was coloring in his beard with a marker.

00:21:06.800 So now I get in front of the audience and say, everybody stand up.

00:21:09.800 I'm not actually trying to remember their names.

00:21:11.800 I'm just trying to remember what stood out on their face.

00:21:14.800 Oh, it was her eyebrows.

00:21:16.800 It was his beard.

00:21:17.800 It was his ears.

00:21:18.800 And then I remember the picture.

00:21:19.800 And then I remember the name.

00:21:20.800 Now, does it have to be in order or no?

00:21:22.800 Not at all.

00:21:23.800 Not for that.

00:21:24.800 It doesn't have to be in order.

00:21:25.800 Really?

00:21:26.800 So yours is not like in order of letters, like to have a musical sound of way of memorizing it.

00:21:31.800 It's the visual for you.

00:21:33.800 Visual.

00:21:34.800 Okay.

00:21:35.800 So we did scientific studies on this.

00:21:37.800 They had colleges, college studies where they took a group of college students and they

00:21:42.800 put them in an auditorium and they gave a list of a hundred words.

00:21:46.800 And they said them verbally, spaced out by five seconds.

00:21:49.800 Then they tested their recall.

00:21:51.800 And then they took a second group of students and they gave them a hundred words.

00:21:56.800 But it was a hundred words with images.

00:21:58.800 Instead of the word saying the word house, they had a picture of a house in a PowerPoint presentation.

00:22:03.800 Then they tested them.

00:22:05.800 The recall on what they saw versus the group that just heard the words was seven, eightfold.

00:22:11.800 I mean, it was a dramatic difference.

00:22:14.800 We remember what we see.

00:22:15.800 Let me ask you, how valuable of a skill set is this?

00:22:18.800 How valuable is this?

00:22:20.800 I mean, I think about in the business world, it's extremely valuable.

00:22:23.800 But how valuable is this?

00:22:24.800 I mean, because you're in the world.

00:22:25.800 So when you're selling this, who's buying it from you?

00:22:28.800 Who are the people that are coming to your conferences?

00:22:30.800 Who are the people that are coming to your three days?

00:22:32.800 Or who's inviting you to come and speak?

00:22:34.800 I imagine one part of it is entertainment aspect of it.

00:22:37.800 But forget about the entertainment aspect of it.

00:22:39.800 Are corporations, are companies bringing you in because you can bring value to their executives?

00:22:44.800 It is, yes.

00:22:45.800 And, you know, sometimes I do get pinholed as the entertainment or the comedy because people are laughing.

00:22:52.800 When you just repeated 150 names and you just saw, they're like laughing because they don't know how to react to it.

00:22:58.800 But I tell them this is so much more than comedy.

00:23:01.800 This is valuable education.

00:23:04.800 Think about it.

00:23:05.800 Let's say that you sell real estate or you sell automobiles or you sell insurance or you sell anything.

00:23:12.800 And you meet somebody today, a prospect, and in six weeks you're at the Dallas Cowboy game or the Texas Rangers game or some other sports team, Starbucks.

00:23:22.800 And you see that person and you're able to say, Patrick, how are you doing, man?

00:23:26.800 Hey, it's so good to see you.

00:23:28.800 You know, I haven't seen you in three weeks.

00:23:29.800 And you're able to ask them about their families by name.

00:23:32.800 It's powerful.

00:23:33.800 So building relationships.

00:23:34.800 You and I talked earlier and you brought this up.

00:23:37.800 You brought up Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

00:23:41.800 In that book, he said, everybody's favorite subject is themselves and the sweetest sound of their ears, the sound of their own name.

00:23:47.800 That's right.

00:23:48.800 There is a guy here in Dallas.

00:23:50.800 I was at a meeting and I memorized a 50 digit number and I said it forwards and backwards.

00:23:54.800 I did it for his group there.

00:23:56.800 He had hired me.

00:23:57.800 And he said, Ron, if you teach me how to do that, I'll give you $100,000.

00:24:02.800 And I thought, well, he's got to be joking because he's paid me to be here and he's not giving me a hundred grand.

00:24:08.800 So I laughed it off and I went on.

00:24:10.800 At the end of my speech, a guy at the back of the room says, Ron, I could say that 50 digit number now.

00:24:15.800 Well, the guy who had hired me turned to that guy who's named Jerry.

00:24:19.800 He said, Jerry, if you say the 50 digit number, I'll give you the hundred thousand dollars.

00:24:24.800 And I'm like, what?

00:24:25.800 I just said it.

00:24:26.800 And so Jerry says the 50 digit number.

00:24:30.800 He wrote him a check for a hundred thousand dollars.

00:24:33.800 He takes the check over to him.

00:24:34.800 Three days later, Jerry emails me, Ron, I cashed the check.

00:24:38.800 The money's in my bank.

00:24:40.800 I have a hundred thousand dollars.

00:24:42.800 I owe you dinner.

00:24:44.800 I'm like, you don't owe me dinner.

00:24:45.800 You owe me a car.

00:24:47.800 But I said this guy's initials AB.

00:24:52.800 They are not.

00:24:53.800 They are not.

00:24:54.800 Are you sure about that?

00:24:55.800 Yes.

00:24:56.800 He's got an office off here off of us, 635 and the tollway.

00:25:03.800 His name is on the side of that building.

00:25:06.800 Because this guy's name, I'm saying his name is on a lot of buildings.

00:25:10.800 Is it?

00:25:11.800 Yeah.

00:25:12.800 It's a local Dallas guy as well.

00:25:13.800 But anyways, so he pays a hundred thousand dollars to this guy.

00:25:16.800 He pays a hundred thousand dollars.

00:25:17.800 Does the guy end up buying you a car or no?

00:25:18.800 He just got you a lunch or dinner.

00:25:19.800 I skipped that guy.

00:25:20.800 I went after the guy that wrote the check.

00:25:22.800 Because my wheels started turning.

00:25:23.800 Of course.

00:25:24.800 This guy's got 900 employees.

00:25:26.800 And I emailed him and I said, sir, you know what?

00:25:31.800 He's given me permission to use his name.

00:25:33.800 Matter of fact, he's told me it's okay to use his name.

00:25:35.800 I'm going to say his name.

00:25:37.800 His name is Brent Ryan.

00:25:38.800 He owns a company called Ryan.

00:25:40.800 Okay.

00:25:41.800 And I said, Mr. Ryan, you have 900 employees.

00:25:45.800 Why don't I teach you how to memorize those employees' names?

00:25:49.800 And I quoted him a fee.

00:25:51.800 That part I'll keep quiet.

00:25:52.800 I quoted him a fee that was less than a hundred thousand,

00:25:55.800 but it was still had some zeros in there.

00:25:58.800 Sure.

00:25:59.800 And I went to his office.

00:26:01.800 He wrote me that check.

00:26:02.800 And he said, Ron, a lot of people think this is a lot of money to give to a guy who's just

00:26:07.800 going to teach me how to remember names.

00:26:10.800 He said, but it's not just remembering names.

00:26:12.800 He said, the reason I got a company that's making so much money and I can write a hundred thousand

00:26:17.800 dollar check on a bet is because I know how to leverage skills.

00:26:22.800 He said, I'm going to take this skill of remembering names and I'm going to leverage it to make more money.

00:26:28.800 So I guess that's kind of a long story to answer your question of the value of remembering names.

00:26:34.800 This guy who's making so much money.

00:26:38.800 It's worth well more than a hundred thousand dollars to learn disability.

00:26:41.800 Yeah.

00:26:42.800 And so he is, he used it to memorize the names of his employees.

00:26:45.800 What other industries have, you know, showed interest like this gentleman did, Ryan, to learn, like what else have you learned?

00:26:55.800 Who else has approached you?

00:26:57.800 You know, it's a lot of entrepreneurs.

00:26:59.800 It's a lot of salespeople that they, they, they really seem to grasp onto it a lot because I think the interpersonal skills or remembering names is really going to impact the pocketbook.

00:27:08.800 But it's not just that it's people who have to stand up in front of groups and give presentations because when you can stand up in front of a group and give a presentation and not have to read your PowerPoint or not have to read your notes instantly, you become a more dynamic speaker.

00:27:22.800 You become a more charismatic speaker.

00:27:24.800 You become a speaker that appears more knowledgeable of your subject matter.

00:27:28.800 So people who have to give speeches, any person who's taken any type of exams or tests for their certifications or whatever, they are taking this course so they can taste those exams without stress.

00:27:40.800 So it's just a wide range of people.

00:27:42.800 Any, any weird ones, any weird ones that have, let me, let me give you an idea what I mean by this.

00:27:46.800 Okay.

00:27:47.800 So I had Richard Turner.

00:27:48.800 I don't know if you know who Richard Turner is.

00:27:49.800 Richard Turner is the number one card magician in the world.

00:27:53.800 That's what he likes to call it.

00:27:55.800 Card mechanic in the world.

00:27:56.800 He doesn't like the word magic.

00:27:57.800 He likes mechanic.

00:27:58.800 He's the number one card mechanic in the world.

00:28:00.800 And he was on Penn and Teller and he's doing his old trick on these guys.

00:28:04.800 Okay.

00:28:05.800 By the time he's done, what they don't realize is he's blind.

00:28:08.800 Oh.

00:28:09.800 He can't see.

00:28:10.800 Wow.

00:28:11.800 He's a hundred percent blind.

00:28:12.800 Wow.

00:28:13.800 He cannot see nothing.

00:28:14.800 Right.

00:28:15.800 So he came down and he and I sat down.

00:28:16.800 He was at the same place here and he was a guest.

00:28:19.800 And I said, what's the weirdest person that approached you with this ability?

00:28:23.800 Because this ability can attract good people and bad people.

00:28:25.800 He says, yeah, the mob contacted me.

00:28:27.800 Wow.

00:28:28.800 I said, what did the mob say?

00:28:29.800 He said, the mob was interested in my ability to go, due to counting cards, playing cards at

00:28:35.800 certain casinos and winning.

00:28:36.800 Wow.

00:28:37.800 And he says, I have to turn it down.

00:28:38.800 Because, you know, once you do it one time, they could own.

00:28:41.800 Was there any weird people that have ever approached you with this ability?

00:28:44.800 You got a smile on your face or something tells me.

00:28:46.800 I don't know if there's weird, weird people.

00:28:48.800 You know, unique.

00:28:49.800 Background.

00:28:50.800 I mean, unique stories.

00:28:51.800 Unique.

00:28:52.800 You know, in 2009, I set the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards in the

00:28:56.800 United States.

00:28:57.800 Then I was in New York.

00:28:58.800 And the next day, David Blaine's assistant called me and said, hey, David, I just heard

00:29:03.800 about you setting the record.

00:29:04.800 Can I give him your cell phone number?

00:29:07.800 I said, you can give me my social security number.

00:29:09.800 I want to meet David Blaine.

00:29:11.800 And I went down to his office the next day and I taught him the system to memorize a deck

00:29:15.800 of cards.

00:29:16.800 I've done a couple of radio shows.

00:29:19.800 You know, these guys are, you know, the entertainment shock value where they have had a bunch of

00:29:24.800 ladies line up that were wearing maybe less than nothing. 1.00

00:29:28.800 And I had to memorize all their measurements.

00:29:30.800 That was...

00:29:31.800 By pure guess or by actually measuring them?

00:29:33.800 They said them.

00:29:34.800 No, I didn't.

00:29:35.800 I didn't measure them.

00:29:36.800 But those were two interesting things.

00:29:39.800 I don't know if anybody, anything other than that, but those are the two that jumped out

00:29:42.800 in my head.

00:29:43.800 That's pretty cool.

00:29:44.800 I mean, those are, those are pretty cool things to be able to do.

00:29:46.800 So, listen, how about we do the deck of cards?

00:29:48.800 Is that okay with you?

00:29:49.800 Yes.

00:29:50.800 All right, let's do the deck of cards and see if we can do anything here with it.

00:29:52.800 So, is there anything you want to tell us before I do this?

00:29:55.800 You know, Paul, if you want to get this so we can show exactly what the deck looks before

00:29:59.800 I shuffle it.

00:30:00.800 So, I don't think this deck has a joker in it.

00:30:04.800 Okay, let me check this here real quick.

00:30:07.800 I don't see a joker.

00:30:08.800 So, it's 52 cards we're looking at here.

00:30:10.800 Yep.

00:30:11.800 Yeah, and you know, the only things I would tell you is that this stunt takes a lot of

00:30:16.800 preparation and practice and I haven't practiced it in years.

00:30:19.800 So, we're going to...

00:30:20.800 So, if you do it, it's that much more impressive if you do do it.

00:30:23.800 Correct.

00:30:24.800 And if you don't do it, no pressure.

00:30:26.800 Obviously, it's just going to be a couple million people watching.

00:30:28.800 I don't want you to get too nervous about this.

00:30:31.800 I'll get it.

00:30:32.800 You know, it's just...

00:30:33.800 Go ahead.

00:30:34.800 Okay.

00:30:35.800 So, here we go.

00:30:36.800 Okay.

00:30:37.800 I'm going to mix it one more time and then what do I do?

00:30:40.800 You want me to hand it over to you and then you'll look at it and then as you're going

00:30:44.800 through it, I'm going to show it to the audience here.

00:30:45.800 Does that work?

00:30:46.800 Yeah, I'll need to hold it to go through it.

00:30:48.800 Okay.

00:30:49.800 Go for it.

00:30:50.800 This could take three minutes.

00:30:51.800 It's totally fine.

00:30:52.800 We can do a time lapse here.

00:30:53.800 So, you do your thing.

00:30:54.800 Okay.

00:30:55.800 Yeah.

00:31:01.800 Okay.

00:31:02.800 We'll see.

00:31:03.800 And now, when you do the recall, we'll do it from this side.

00:31:06.800 Okay.

00:31:07.800 Okay.

00:31:08.800 So.

00:31:09.800 Okay.

00:31:10.800 So, the first card I believe was the Eight of Spades, then the Five of Hearts, Two of Hearts,

00:31:19.800 King of Hearts, Ten of Hearts, Ace of Clubs, Queen of Spades, Four of Hearts, Eight of Hearts,

00:31:34.800 Three of Hearts, Three of Spades, Queen of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts, Nine of Spades, Six of Hearts, Ten of Spades, Seven of Spades, Five of Clubs, Three of Hearts, Eight of Diamonds, Seven of Hearts, Jack of Clubs, Nine of Diamonds, Two of Hearts.

00:31:51.800 Two of Clubs.

00:31:52.800 Three of Clubs, Nine of Clubs.

00:31:53.800 Three of Hearts, Three of Hearts, Eight of Diamonds, Seven of Hearts, Jack of Clubs, Nine of Diamonds, Two of Clubs, Nine of Clubs, and then Nine of Hearts, Four of Spades, Ace of Spades, and then Six of Spades, Ten of Clubs, Four of Spades.

00:32:18.800 Ten of Clubs, Ten of Clubs, Five of Diamonds, Six of Clubs, Four of Diamonds, Seven of Clubs, Two of Diamonds, Two of Spades, King of Spades, Eight of Clubs, Four of Clubs, Seven of Diamonds, Six of Diamonds, King of Clubs, Jack of Hearts,

00:32:46.800 Five of Clubs, Jack of Hearts, and then Five of Spades, Jack of Diamonds, uh, uh, oh my gosh, it can't be Five of Spades again, that would be impossible, and that's what I want to say.

00:33:01.720 Uh, let's push that card to the side, and we'll see if I can come back to it, uh, Ten, so the next card is, uh, Ten of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs, Three of Diamonds, and then Ace of Diamonds, King of Diamonds, and Ace of Hearts,

00:33:25.960 and then the next one would be, uh, Jack of Spades.

00:33:32.340 So, everything correct with the exception of one S, yeah.

00:33:33.960 Everything is 100% correct. You got one left.

00:33:38.800 Okay, so if, uh, would you give me, will you give me one second here to run through my brain?

00:33:43.720 Sure, yeah, yeah, sure. Do your thing.

00:33:44.640 Okay.

00:33:45.860 Uh, oh!

00:33:47.740 It's a Three of Clubs.

00:33:49.440 Are you freaking kidding me?

00:33:51.740 Okay.

00:33:52.160 So, what were you processing right now? What were you at?

00:33:55.800 Yeah, so, I used the Mind Palace, the technique that I talked to you about, and for every card, I have a picture for it.

00:34:02.780 My picture for the Three of Clubs is a bathroom stall, okay? This is what it is.

00:34:10.580 Why? Why a bathroom stall? 0.81

00:34:12.500 Well, uh, okay, this is the absolute worst card, as an example.

00:34:18.100 Am I kind of getting an idea where this is going?

00:34:20.220 Well, this is actually, uh, the, the worst card, but I'll go ahead and tell you, and then you can decide if you want to keep it in your YouTube.

00:34:27.940 Sure.

00:34:28.680 Um, uh, for every card I have, I've assigned a celebrity to, okay?

00:34:33.860 So, not, not all of them are celebrities. The Queen of Hearts is my mom, right?

00:34:37.460 But some of them, most of them are celebrities.

00:34:40.540 Um, I told you before that every, every, uh, number has a sound to me.

00:34:47.460 So, three is the sound M, M, and that card is a three.

00:34:52.420 So, the last name needs to start with M.

00:34:54.660 For the clubs, I all had them start with G or J sound.

00:34:58.440 So, when I'm going through this, I'm like, G, M.

00:35:00.400 What's a famous person with the name G, M?

00:35:02.720 George Michael.

00:35:03.260 Yes. And so, George Michael, and where, he got arrested in a, in a bathroom, okay?

00:35:10.260 That's literally how you did it.

00:35:11.920 Yes. That's my image for the crew.

00:35:16.080 That's the worst example that we have.

00:35:18.580 But I'm not necessarily a huge George Michael fan, but his initials happen to correspond.

00:35:23.200 And it's the first famous person you thought of. It's the first famous person I thought of with those initials.

00:35:27.440 Interesting.

00:35:28.100 So, I had George Michael on this desk in my house, which is, you know, one of my pieces of furniture.

00:35:34.460 And I just, for whatever reason, the image wasn't super solid.

00:35:38.180 Uh, but I got it.

00:35:40.040 Yeah. I just had to think about it.

00:35:41.680 Unbelievable how that's done.

00:35:43.780 Unbelievable. And you're saying anybody can learn how to do this?

00:35:46.300 Anybody. Anybody who will take the time.

00:35:49.400 Anybody who will take the time and number 20, 30, 40, 50 pieces of furniture in their house.

00:35:55.180 Anybody who will take the time.

00:35:57.640 And here's what you need to do.

00:35:59.040 For the next three, four weeks, tell yourself, every time I meet a person, I'm going to turn their name into a picture.

00:36:05.300 Just make that commitment to yourself.

00:36:07.220 You meet somebody named Steve.

00:36:08.960 Oh, what could that be?

00:36:10.060 How about Stove?

00:36:11.260 You meet Elisa.

00:36:12.260 What could that be?

00:36:13.040 The Mona Lisa.

00:36:14.140 Just make your commitment to yourself that you're going to do it for three or four weeks.

00:36:17.540 At the end of that three or four weeks, you'll have turned a hundred names into a picture.

00:36:21.360 And then just use those pictures for names.

00:36:23.640 So it's going to take time, but anybody can do it.

00:36:26.680 Can I ask you some names to see where you go with that?

00:36:28.480 Sure.

00:36:28.940 Mario.

00:36:29.900 Super Mario Brothers.

00:36:31.240 Video game?

00:36:31.860 Yeah.

00:36:32.140 Okay.

00:36:32.480 Joe.

00:36:33.240 A sloppy Joe hamburger.

00:36:35.120 Jennifer.

00:36:35.960 Jennifer.

00:36:36.380 I use a chin with fur.

00:36:37.860 Chin fur.

00:36:39.080 Chin. 0.95

00:36:39.560 Okay.

00:36:40.180 Interesting.

00:36:41.060 Ian.

00:36:41.680 Ian.

00:36:42.200 I use a baseball player, Ian Kinsler, and that's terrible.

00:36:47.160 I recommend you don't use people for people, but that one's so unique I do.

00:36:51.320 Okay.

00:36:51.580 Mike.

00:36:52.420 Microphone.

00:36:53.260 Microphone.

00:36:53.800 Okay.

00:36:54.080 Paw.

00:36:54.620 A basketball.

00:36:55.720 Kai.

00:36:56.860 A kite.

00:36:58.180 A kite.

00:36:59.060 Kenya.

00:37:00.160 Kenya.

00:37:00.720 I think of the country of Africa.

00:37:02.600 You would think straight.

00:37:03.380 You would go to the country.

00:37:04.320 I do.

00:37:04.780 Kenya.

00:37:05.320 Yeah.

00:37:05.540 Interesting.

00:37:05.980 I think of, you know, I'll think of rhinoceroses or elephants, whatever I think is on a safari

00:37:10.740 there.

00:37:11.820 Matt.

00:37:12.660 A doormat.

00:37:14.240 Rodolfo.

00:37:15.640 I would use Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

00:37:18.000 You would go to Rudolph.

00:37:18.820 Now, with this one, you've got to remember that it's Rudolph O and not Rudolph, but that's

00:37:24.680 close enough.

00:37:25.500 Got it.

00:37:26.060 Someone's going to say you are close enough to it.

00:37:27.980 Yeah.

00:37:28.340 That is so amazing to me how you're doing this.

00:37:30.960 And so let me ask you, the average time for somebody to learn this Mind Palace, how long

00:37:36.940 is that going to take?

00:37:37.680 I think everybody that's, you know, watching or listening to this interview could, in 20

00:37:43.640 minutes, number 20 or 30 pieces of furniture in the house.

00:37:46.940 Because here's the deal.

00:37:48.180 You already have your house memorized.

00:37:50.820 You just don't have it numbered.

00:37:52.340 And I recommend you do it five pieces of furniture at a time.

00:37:56.320 And the reason for that is it just becomes easier to count.

00:37:59.040 In other words, if you memorize the Presidents of the United States and you've got six in one

00:38:02.920 room, four in one room, and nine in another room, and then I say, what's number 12?

00:38:07.120 Ah, you figure it out.

00:38:08.380 It's going to take a minute.

00:38:09.440 But if you've got five in this room, five in this room, five in this room, and I say,

00:38:12.560 who's 15?

00:38:13.300 Boom.

00:38:13.600 Boom.

00:38:13.900 Easy.

00:38:14.280 At the end of room number three.

00:38:15.700 So for organizing, that's the best way to do it.

00:38:17.780 So what if you live in a small little, you know, place?

00:38:21.360 It's not even one bedroom.

00:38:22.420 It's a loft.

00:38:23.580 How do you remember?

00:38:24.240 How do you do that?

00:38:25.040 I think you're spying on me.

00:38:26.300 Because I live in a one-bedroom condo in Fort Worth, okay?

00:38:29.700 And I just, and my current project is, is I'm memorizing the United States Constitution.

00:38:35.280 So it is roughly 4,500 words, right?

00:38:39.100 How in the world do I memorize the Constitution when I'm living in a one-bedroom condo?

00:38:44.660 This is what I did.

00:38:45.660 I've numbered all the places in my condo, but then it's downtown Fort Worth.

00:38:50.660 So then I go around downtown Fort Worth and I start numbering locations all over downtown

00:38:55.520 Fort Worth.

00:38:56.300 I've actually brought a visual aid with me here.

00:38:58.680 I'll show you.

00:38:58.940 Sure.

00:38:59.340 Yeah.

00:39:00.380 So this is, this is Fort Worth.

00:39:03.340 Okay.

00:39:04.020 Here's a gas station that I'm real familiar with.

00:39:08.260 There is the gas pump.

00:39:09.920 There's the front door.

00:39:11.220 This is a law office over there.

00:39:13.180 Here's Joe T. Garcia's, which is a famous restaurant.

00:39:16.080 I've took a picture.

00:39:16.940 I walked around the restaurant.

00:39:18.180 I took pictures all in the restaurant.

00:39:20.320 In other words, I built a mine palace all over Fort Worth in restaurants, down streets,

00:39:26.300 inside restaurants and bars and hotels.

00:39:30.180 Here's Billy Bob's coming up right here.

00:39:31.900 That's not Billy Bob's.

00:39:33.180 There's Billy Bob's.

00:39:34.600 So I took 500 photographs and then I put them in a PowerPoint.

00:39:38.720 So now I've got this PowerPoint that's 500 locations, mine palace.

00:39:43.500 And then underneath it, you will see is the constitution.

00:39:47.560 This line of the constitution goes here.

00:39:49.940 This line of the constitution goes here.

00:39:51.960 This line of the constitution goes here.

00:39:54.480 And I just have to look at this and create some image that's going to be a brain trigger

00:39:59.320 and attach it, this image to this.

00:40:02.080 I'll kind of go a little bit into the weeds here on this.

00:40:05.600 You will notice on this one, there's a lot of yellow on here.

00:40:10.000 In the constitution, the word shall be repeat over and over, but also the words maybe repeat

00:40:17.460 over and over.

00:40:18.280 I'm like, how do I know if it's shall be or maybe I have coded for myself yellow for shall

00:40:24.700 be and maybe, I don't know if I can find another one is blue.

00:40:28.660 So you'll see some pictures with blue.

00:40:30.600 Shall be yellow again.

00:40:31.760 Is there more shall be there?

00:40:32.800 Cause it's yellow or what?

00:40:34.040 Why do you have yellow here?

00:40:35.000 This is shall be.

00:40:36.480 So to answer your question, how do you build a mind palace with, uh, if you live in a small

00:40:42.540 place, use the town you live in, use your favorite restaurant, your favorite bar, uh,

00:40:47.100 your favorite locations, a baseball stadium.

00:40:50.040 If I'm sitting with a high-end client that I got to close and I'm selling, I'm a business

00:40:54.720 person.

00:40:55.580 If I'm sitting with a partner that I really want to do business with, I want them to invest

00:41:00.780 into me.

00:41:01.520 I have a lot of data and research I've done on them.

00:41:04.120 Correct.

00:41:04.480 Is that concept of doing the research on them similar to what you're saying right now?

00:41:08.820 So you would take a folder, you would take 40 different facts about them, create a visualization

00:41:13.420 on each one.

00:41:14.580 If you don't have a more than a one bedroom place you're living in, go to this place and

00:41:18.240 take those pictures and create them.

00:41:20.000 And then you will know as you're speaking to them that you dropped this, you dropped that,

00:41:24.240 you dropped this.

00:41:24.680 This person's going to say, very impressive for this guy to know the history about our company,

00:41:28.140 when we got started, who the first CEO was, who the second CEO was, who our first investor

00:41:31.840 was, when we sold for $320 million, the same procedure, the same process can work for that

00:41:36.520 as well.

00:41:37.060 Absolutely.

00:41:37.760 And to a certain extent, I did that for you.

00:41:40.640 Last night, I was on your YouTube channel.

00:41:42.600 I was watching your videos, you know, just to get a feel for your show, but also to get

00:41:46.800 a little bit more background on you and see if there was any common friends that we could

00:41:51.920 talk about.

00:41:52.480 And I found one.

00:41:54.220 So I did that.

00:41:55.460 And as I was doing the research on you, yeah, I take that little bit of information and I

00:42:00.280 put it on the first piece of furniture in my house.

00:42:02.420 I take the second piece of information that I want to talk about and I put it on the second

00:42:05.860 one.

00:42:06.120 So absolutely.

00:42:07.200 If you're doing research on a client, get that information.

00:42:10.180 And then you've got 10 points about this person that you want to bring up.

00:42:13.540 Put them on pieces of furniture in your house.

00:42:15.780 Now let's take it a step further.

00:42:17.520 So you've done research.

00:42:18.500 You walk in and you've got all these things you want to bring up, show them that you're

00:42:21.940 interested in them and you've done research.

00:42:24.100 Walk around that room in your house saying it.

00:42:26.740 But now in the conversation, that client or prospect might tell you some stuff that you

00:42:31.820 want to remember for your next meeting to show them that you're listening.

00:42:35.280 As they say that information, put that in the next room in your house, put it on that.

00:42:40.220 I mean, there's nothing wrong with writing it down in front of the client either.

00:42:42.640 But if you don't want to do that, put it on the next piece of furniture.

00:42:46.300 So he or she brings up five, six, 10 things.

00:42:50.320 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:42:51.160 You get out of the meeting.

00:42:52.320 You get back to your car.

00:42:53.540 There's no shame in writing those 10 things down.

00:42:55.840 But the mind palace held it in your brain until you got to your car.

00:42:59.660 So I can use the same furniture for the same thing or no?

00:43:03.200 I have to create a new thing for that.

00:43:05.360 So meaning I can't use the Lincoln to use dam or the table to use Washington to put a washing

00:43:14.100 machine up top, I can't use that again for another piece.

00:43:16.500 You can.

00:43:17.060 And you actually just had a very perceptive question that you just asked me because I

00:43:22.140 just told you you used 10 pieces of furniture to remember data on this person.

00:43:26.060 Sure.

00:43:26.460 And then I told you to use a different set for what they tell you.

00:43:30.240 The reason I said that is it's from the same meeting.

00:43:33.520 So it's kind of the same topic.

00:43:35.100 In other words, if you memorize the presidency of the United States today, use your first

00:43:41.340 five, then tomorrow you do research on a prospect.

00:43:45.780 You can use those same five pieces of furniture.

00:43:48.100 You're not going to confuse it.

00:43:49.320 You're not going to think, oh, this guy used to know James Monroe.

00:43:53.380 You know what I'm saying?

00:43:53.980 You're not going to confuse the material.

00:43:55.940 But if the subject matter is so similar, it comes from the same meeting.

00:43:59.580 Don't do it.

00:44:00.420 Use different pieces of furniture.

00:44:02.480 Got it.

00:44:02.700 So right now, if you did this exercise with me that I remember five presidents, I'd know

00:44:07.800 the first three.

00:44:08.900 If it was you or no, I remember the first three.

00:44:10.960 I didn't know four or five.

00:44:11.980 Yeah.

00:44:12.440 The way we just did it right now.

00:44:13.620 Right.

00:44:14.480 How long would it take you for you to be able to do the 45 presidents with me?

00:44:17.840 We could probably run through it and we would have to establish your house files.

00:44:22.100 Or we could walk around your office right here.

00:44:24.080 Right here.

00:44:24.500 We could do it here and you'd probably have them in 30 minutes, 25 minutes, 20 minutes maybe.

00:44:28.420 It's probably going to stick for the rest of my life.

00:44:29.760 It would.

00:44:30.300 And I'd be happy to teach them to you.

00:44:31.740 That's unbelievable.

00:44:33.020 So this is not just a method for people to learn for themselves.

00:44:39.040 This is a method that can teach their kids.

00:44:41.040 This is a method for teaching.

00:44:42.420 This is a method for selling.

00:44:44.080 This is a method for persuasion.

00:44:45.860 This is a method for respect.

00:44:47.240 This is a method for...

00:44:48.800 I got a guy called me the other day.

00:44:50.160 He is meeting with the CEO.

00:44:53.500 He's meeting with the CEO.

00:44:55.100 And the CEO is a Saudi Arabian.

00:44:57.100 The CEO of the operation that he's looking at.

00:44:59.540 And he called me.

00:45:00.480 He says, hey, I got a question I want to ask you.

00:45:02.980 So what's that?

00:45:03.480 You're from the Middle East.

00:45:06.280 I'm meeting with somebody who is very powerful in the business world, similar like you.

00:45:10.200 And I want to be able to earn his trust and earn his business.

00:45:12.760 What are some things I need to be doing?

00:45:14.620 And we had a 40-minute conversation together on what approaches to take and how you show respect.

00:45:19.320 If they got kids, you feed their kids.

00:45:21.000 You feed them.

00:45:21.620 That's respect to them because to them they look...

00:45:23.780 All these things we went through.

00:45:24.840 He recited it.

00:45:25.820 And he went and he was able to do the business and get whatever transaction he wanted to get done with these kids.

00:45:30.460 And obviously that's disclosed, but business was done with them.

00:45:33.960 This is an ability that can help in many aspects of a person's life.

00:45:39.380 Saying it to you, how does this apply to personal relationships?

00:45:43.620 Does this help in personal relationships with your boyfriend, girlfriend, parents, kids, based on what you know as well?

00:45:49.940 Yeah, you bring up kids.

00:45:51.300 One thing that I love to do is the President of the United States exercise with kids.

00:45:56.140 I was dating a girl a few years ago and I would memorize a deck of cards in front of them.

00:46:01.940 And I wasn't consciously doing it.

00:46:03.960 I was training for a memory tournament.

00:46:05.800 But I never went to these kids and said, hey, let me teach you a system that's going to help you in school.

00:46:10.440 I think if I would have done that, they would have been turned off.

00:46:12.860 But they saw me memorizing a deck of cards and they just were fascinated.

00:46:16.620 And this little five-year-old girl, my girlfriend's daughter, comes up to the table

00:46:20.560 and she's got these little cards and one says O and orange underneath it and P and pirate or whatever.

00:46:27.500 And she hands them to me.

00:46:28.480 She said, memorize these.

00:46:30.020 And I memorized those.

00:46:31.300 And when I did, her eyes just got so big.

00:46:34.340 Her little brother or her big brother said, I want a Nintendo player.

00:46:38.420 Will you give me your Nintendo player?

00:46:39.960 You're too old to have a Nintendo player.

00:46:42.220 I said, man, what kind of lesson would it be to you if I just gave you a Nintendo player?

00:46:45.880 It's a $200 toy.

00:46:47.500 He said, it'd be a lesson that people should be generous.

00:46:50.440 I said, man, that's not the lesson I'm going to teach you.

00:46:51.800 He literally says this.

00:46:52.620 Yeah, he's a smart kid.

00:46:54.700 But I ended up making him a deal.

00:46:56.580 You memorize the presidents, I'll give you the Nintendo player.

00:46:59.900 He memorized the presidents in 90 minutes walking around his house.

00:47:03.460 He was 10 years old.

00:47:04.400 But you taught him how to do it.

00:47:05.380 Correct.

00:47:05.720 I did it.

00:47:06.560 I did it with him.

00:47:07.400 Okay.

00:47:07.800 And in 90 minutes, he died.

00:47:09.200 Then his five-year-old little girl, the one with the cards, she wanted to do it too.

00:47:13.260 So then we did it with her, and she memorized them in an hour.

00:47:16.840 So with kids, it really helps them with their homework and that kind of stuff.

00:47:20.260 I'd say with relationships, if you want to remember your anniversary, I'll say this to

00:47:24.360 the guys.

00:47:25.080 Guys, you want to remember your girlfriend's anniversary or birthday or your, just forget

00:47:30.400 it once.

00:47:31.200 That is the best way to remember it, okay?

00:47:33.020 You'll never forget it again.

00:47:34.800 But in all seriousness, maybe your girlfriend tells you something and it's important to

00:47:39.840 her.

00:47:40.560 You know, you can remember it this way.

00:47:43.440 So I think it helps in all relationships.

00:47:45.600 Yeah, this is, I agree.

00:47:47.900 I can only imagine that.

00:47:48.960 So how much information do you have stored in your mind right now?

00:47:52.520 Like, what things have you memorized?

00:47:54.780 Like, some of the things you said is obviously big.

00:47:56.600 Like, you said, okay, Constitution, you're working on it.

00:47:58.360 You're going to do it on 4th of July on Fox and Friends.

00:48:01.280 The 2,300 names, Afghanistan wall, memory wall.

00:48:05.940 The president's, I'm assuming, you can do that with your eyes closed to go through the

00:48:08.880 45.

00:48:09.480 What else, what else of these have you memorized?

00:48:12.520 Well, you know, for the memory tournament, I memorized the periodic table of elements, you

00:48:18.000 know, and I had to memorize the atomic mass of all of them and the boiling point and that

00:48:22.440 kind of stuff.

00:48:23.200 But that was kind of not really important to me.

00:48:26.160 So I didn't hold on to it long term.

00:48:28.760 The Afghanistan wall is important to me.

00:48:30.700 So I held on to it long term.

00:48:32.440 In other words, it's meaningful to me.

00:48:34.160 And what do I mean by holding on to it long term?

00:48:36.020 I just reviewed it.

00:48:37.100 That makes so much sense.

00:48:39.580 If something's not important to you, just don't think about it anymore.

00:48:42.660 If it's important to you, you're going to need to go back and review it every couple

00:48:45.880 days until it's solid.

00:48:47.960 Does it make sense to empty and release or no?

00:48:50.300 Or does it just automatic?

00:48:51.600 Like, based on what you're saying.

00:48:52.420 Because to me, am I processing it as I have this much data that I can store, the more

00:48:58.340 I fill it, I'm either going to lose something that's not important or is it important to

00:49:03.620 empty to be able to fit more stuff in there, newer stuff in there?

00:49:06.160 How do you process that?

00:49:07.320 Do you know what I'm asking?

00:49:07.980 I know exactly what you're asking.

00:49:09.440 And you don't have to consciously remove the material to put new data in.

00:49:15.680 Just don't think about it anymore and it'll fade away, which is why people want memory

00:49:20.660 training because that's the problem.

00:49:21.800 Information is always fading away.

00:49:24.100 So just don't think about it anymore.

00:49:25.420 It'll go away.

00:49:26.000 But if it is something that's important to you, then you will need to review it maybe

00:49:30.960 the next day, review it in a week, review it in a month.

00:49:34.320 For that Afghanistan wall, when I memorized a 2,400 fallen military, I would memorize maybe 0.83

00:49:40.600 50 a day.

00:49:41.960 And then the next day before I memorize the next 50, I'd review the previous 50.

00:49:47.260 So now when I have 1,700 people memorized, I'm reviewing the 1,700 before I add another 50.

00:49:53.940 Some days, it was just days of review.

00:49:56.720 This is so powerful what you're saying because I ran a sales organization and every time we

00:50:01.140 taught a script, I would break down a script into 10 different parts and we would do 1

00:50:06.820 10 times.

00:50:07.740 Then we would do 1, 2.

00:50:09.060 Then we would do 1, 2, 3.

00:50:10.660 Then 1, 2, 3, 4.

00:50:12.040 Then 1, 2, 3, 5.

00:50:13.300 Then 1, 2, 3, 5, 6.

00:50:15.040 Then 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7.

00:50:16.500 And then eventually after it's done, everybody knew the script.

00:50:18.600 But we'd go back to that.

00:50:19.880 But no one's doing it intentionally.

00:50:21.180 This is just how we role play it.

00:50:22.360 So this applies to teaching your sales guys.

00:50:25.520 This applies to kids.

00:50:27.560 This applies for yourself when you're meeting with clients.

00:50:29.680 There are so many different fences to this on the Mind Palace.

00:50:33.500 Is there any other things that you're thinking about that we can learn from before we finish

00:50:37.980 the interview?

00:50:38.460 Any other things that you have on your mind?

00:50:39.780 Well, one thing I'll touch on as far as sales guys, I used to have telemarketers that worked

00:50:44.540 for me to set appointments.

00:50:45.780 And this guy, I said, man, he was terrible.

00:50:48.680 He was terrible.

00:50:49.820 In sales.

00:50:50.580 In sales.

00:50:51.560 And I said, man, as a telemarketer, I said, you sound like you're reading the script.

00:50:57.760 He said, well, I am reading the script.

00:50:59.960 I said, yeah, but you're not supposed to sound like you're reading the script.

00:51:03.020 People are hanging up on you.

00:51:04.460 So we took the 10 major things that he needs to say on the telephone.

00:51:08.400 We turned them into pictures.

00:51:10.140 And he put them around the room.

00:51:11.740 So he went from reading the script word for word sounding terrible to sitting back looking

00:51:18.080 around the room and talking about what he saw on the walls.

00:51:21.440 It was the exact same script, but he had it memorized and he sounded so natural.

00:51:25.920 It sounded like a conversation.

00:51:27.400 Made a big difference.

00:51:28.480 As far as memory overall goes, though, I think names and faces is the biggest key for a lot

00:51:32.880 of people, especially in business.

00:51:34.700 Commit to yourself every 30, for the next 30 days, turn everybody's name into a picture.

00:51:39.120 Next thing I'd say is commit to yourself to work on understanding this mind palace technique.

00:51:43.320 But you're so right about business.

00:51:47.080 Business people have to give presentations.

00:51:49.520 They want to become more dynamic and not rely on notes.

00:51:52.220 Remember what your contacts say.

00:51:54.240 So remember their names.

00:51:55.820 And it all works with a simple system.

00:51:58.180 Any books?

00:51:59.000 Any books that you'd recommend on this topic?

00:52:02.540 I would recommend an online memory course.

00:52:05.120 Okay, which is something you do yourself.

00:52:06.640 Yes.

00:52:07.020 You have an online memory course.

00:52:07.960 I do.

00:52:08.580 Okay.

00:52:09.000 Tell us a little bit about it.

00:52:10.240 We're going to put the link below.

00:52:11.080 But I got two more questions for you after that, which has to do with if countries, certain

00:52:15.460 countries apply this as an educational method.

00:52:19.500 Because I read somewhere where the countries that had the world memory champion were either

00:52:25.740 from Asia, India, some of those places.

00:52:29.020 So before we go to the course, is this curriculum in some places that you're aware of or no to

00:52:34.740 teach this concept to kids?

00:52:35.980 Not formally, and it is my biggest sadness, I guess I could say, of my 28 years of doing

00:52:45.860 this.

00:52:46.540 My 28 years of doing this, I can go to a school and I can go into...

00:52:51.140 I've spoken in...

00:52:52.220 This is like crazy because what if teachers learn this concept?

00:52:55.720 Forget about like...

00:52:56.360 Imagine if I'm running a private school, my teachers are required to learn this concept

00:53:03.000 and they spent a week with you to learn how to take the curriculum we're teaching and then

00:53:08.460 using this method of teaching so it sticks with the kids, how much more of an impact can

00:53:13.120 be made?

00:53:14.540 Because this ability is going to help people in their careers.

00:53:17.380 Right.

00:53:18.080 So you're not aware that any school is teaching this concept, like part of curriculum?

00:53:22.580 Not to my knowledge, and I have tried, and it's my biggest frustration.

00:53:27.000 And here's the objection that schools will often give me, and it's because they don't

00:53:31.180 understand the process.

00:53:32.620 They will say, you know, I don't want my teachers or my students just regurgitating

00:53:36.780 information.

00:53:37.420 I want them to understand it.

00:53:39.080 And that's a valid objection, but it's an objection because you don't fully understand the role

00:53:44.040 of memory training.

00:53:44.780 In other words, the schools are saying, we don't want our kids memorizing it.

00:53:48.360 We want them knowing it, understanding it.

00:53:50.300 Fair enough.

00:53:51.000 I agree.

00:53:52.020 But what I'll say to you is this.

00:53:53.920 Memory training doesn't take you from being a novice to being an expert.

00:53:58.820 But what it does do is take you from being a novice to right here, just almost to an expert,

00:54:05.380 and it accelerates the learning process.

00:54:07.940 It speeds up how much time.

00:54:10.220 You still got to put it all together in your brain.

00:54:12.180 You still got to understand it.

00:54:13.280 So that's the biggest obstacle I have.

00:54:15.860 But I've given this speech in 55 countries, and every time I go to some of those, and

00:54:20.420 some of them are underprivileged countries and third world countries, and I always think 1.00

00:54:24.300 to myself, man, if I could just get this in the school system here, this would make such

00:54:27.860 a big difference.

00:54:30.360 It's a hurdle for me.

00:54:32.620 Why do countries in India and Asia do so well at it, though?

00:54:35.680 Is there a reason for it?

00:54:36.680 Have you investigated that?

00:54:37.600 Have you done some due diligence?

00:54:38.480 Or is there just, is there a reason for it?

00:54:40.120 You know, I, my YouTube following is, I would say, 30% in India.

00:54:47.360 And I don't know why.

00:54:50.320 But I, is it because it's in the culture?

00:54:53.980 Have you ever advertised your YouTube channel or no?

00:54:56.200 No.

00:54:56.520 So this is all organic, that 30% is from India?

00:55:00.200 Oh, yes.

00:55:00.700 I'm not targeting it.

00:55:02.240 It's, it's grown that way.

00:55:04.960 Unbelievable.

00:55:05.780 But it shows a hunger, I guess you could say, for education.

00:55:09.640 You know, you know, some, who, I heard somebody recently say that the heavyweight boxer that,

00:55:15.920 that he just got defeated.

00:55:18.440 I heard somebody say, you know, it's hard to get motivated when you're sleeping on silk

00:55:23.140 sheets, you know?

00:55:24.820 And maybe, you know, when you're in a country that's, that's up and coming and you're not

00:55:30.740 sleeping on silk sheets, maybe you're a little more motivated to learn and educate.

00:55:34.700 I don't know.

00:55:35.240 I'm just taking some stabs here, but I don't know.

00:55:37.620 But there is a natural affinity, you're right, for learning and memory in some of those countries.

00:55:42.800 Who is the world champion right now?

00:55:44.960 Memory.

00:55:45.540 And where is it from?

00:55:46.580 I know the one I looked at a couple of years ago was India.

00:55:50.000 I think 18 may have been India.

00:55:53.080 I'm thinking, I've been out of the sport for six years.

00:55:56.860 I'm thinking China or European currently.

00:56:00.700 Yeah.

00:56:01.100 World memory champion.

00:56:02.040 Can you look up to see, I'd be so curious to know on what the last three are and if there's

00:56:06.640 a trend.

00:56:07.160 Like, I'm actually curious to know if there's a trend with it to, and by the way, there's

00:56:11.900 never been a U.S. memory world champion, right?

00:56:14.700 I read that somewhere.

00:56:15.460 Or was there one?

00:56:16.900 It's very recent, but it has happened.

00:56:18.820 So it has happened.

00:56:19.840 Yes.

00:56:20.180 And that's U.S.

00:56:21.440 Is that world champion?

00:56:23.060 Both.

00:56:23.560 He won the U.S. championships and the world championships.

00:56:26.420 World memory champion.

00:56:28.040 Is that just what I type in, world memory champion?

00:56:29.900 Right.

00:56:30.760 And so let's see, world memory championship.

00:56:33.080 Tony Buzan.

00:56:34.000 Yeah.

00:56:34.480 He was the organizer.

00:56:37.140 Okay.

00:56:39.820 Johannes Malo.

00:56:40.960 Is he the current world champion?

00:56:43.100 Oh, okay.

00:56:43.540 There's a three-time back-to-back-to-back U.S. champion.

00:56:46.300 Yes.

00:56:46.720 That's impressive.

00:56:47.660 Three years in a row.

00:56:49.280 Interesting.

00:56:50.100 Got it.

00:56:50.220 Well, he didn't win the U.S.A. memory championship three years in a row.

00:56:53.200 He won the undisputed world champion three years in a row.

00:56:56.800 Very interesting.

00:56:58.120 Very, very interesting.

00:56:59.080 Yeah, I mean, this is a, you know, sometimes you look at the curriculum in school being taught

00:57:03.240 and you're like, okay, how much of that's going to be used?

00:57:05.500 If this is being taught, 100%, I'm going to use this for the rest of my life.

00:57:10.680 Right.

00:57:11.400 I mean, if this is being taught at an early age, even first grade, so we don't have to

00:57:14.400 wait late to be teaching this.

00:57:15.880 We can teach this in first, second grade.

00:57:17.540 I'm going to use this for the rest of my life.

00:57:19.740 It's almost an unfair advantage if somebody teaches this to their kids.

00:57:22.900 It is.

00:57:23.440 It really is.

00:57:24.200 In a playful way.

00:57:24.440 It's an unfair advantage.

00:57:26.720 You know, scholarships would be given for people because they know how to use this method.

00:57:30.520 You know, you'd be doing better on tests.

00:57:31.820 You'd be doing on...

00:57:32.360 If parents are watching this, if you want to save money for not sending your kids to

00:57:36.040 college, if your kids learn how to do this, for sending kids to college without you paying

00:57:39.740 for it, if your kids learn how to apply this concept, you can get some free scholarship

00:57:43.800 if they learn this concept because this is going to help with your grades.

00:57:47.320 Absolutely.

00:57:48.040 It's, yeah, it's, you know, it helps kids reduce their stress.

00:57:52.300 Imagine you got a kid out there and he is just terrified to memorize his chemistry information

00:57:57.200 or whatever.

00:57:58.100 Then you show him this.

00:57:59.140 Not only does he know the information, he's no longer stressed or terrified about school.

00:58:04.260 That's right.

00:58:04.760 And that's a confidence builder.

00:58:06.480 Wow.

00:58:07.200 Yeah.

00:58:07.720 Well, okay.

00:58:08.280 So this is great.

00:58:08.960 I appreciate you sharing all this insight with us.

00:58:10.960 By the way, you do have a YouTube channel as well, right?

00:58:12.780 I do, yeah.

00:58:13.240 Tell us about your YouTube channel.

00:58:14.480 Yeah.

00:58:14.680 So I have a YouTube channel with tons of videos.

00:58:16.600 There's a...

00:58:17.300 If you went to YouTube right now and you typed in the word Mind Palace or Memory Palace, I'd pop

00:58:21.680 right up there near the top.

00:58:23.440 But type in Ron White Memory, you'll find it.

00:58:26.560 It's a great channel with free videos.

00:58:29.540 The online memory course you asked me to let them know about is called Black Belt Memory.

00:58:34.180 I like that.

00:58:35.280 BlackBeltMemory.com.

00:58:36.540 That's right.

00:58:37.500 And this is the way I structured it.

00:58:39.020 I was sitting around a few years ago and a buddy of mine, he's a black belt in jujitsu.

00:58:44.500 And he said...

00:58:44.800 Is this the buddy of yours that give you the black eye or that's a different buddy?

00:58:47.840 Does that one make sense?

00:58:49.020 He said, this was a really good friend though.

00:58:52.860 Tuesday happened to be my birthday.

00:58:54.660 The same day...

00:58:55.380 Get out of here.

00:58:55.860 Yeah.

00:58:56.400 So he gives this to me and, you know, 30 minutes later, I got an ice pack on my eye and he walks

00:59:00.560 by and he goes, happy birthday.

00:59:04.740 That's cool.

00:59:05.580 The black belt memory, you start off as a white belt in memory and then you go through 0.99

00:59:09.180 some lessons, you take a test and you earn your yellow belt.

00:59:11.760 And then at the end, you earn your black belt in memory.

00:59:14.220 Interesting.

00:59:14.680 And how long does that take to go through your course?

00:59:16.380 I've had people go through it in three days and the average person, three or four weeks.

00:59:20.220 Very cool.

00:59:20.980 Outside of that, man, it's been a pleasure sitting down with you.

00:59:23.700 I learned a lot today.

00:59:24.700 I was astute.

00:59:25.440 I learned so much from you today.

00:59:26.940 This was a pleasure having you on the show.

00:59:29.300 Well, the pleasure was all mine.

00:59:30.840 I've known about you for a while now and I've been wanting to meet you and wanting to actually

00:59:35.300 do this.

00:59:36.080 And so when I got the call the other day to say, do you want to do it?

00:59:39.460 The first, my first thought was my black eye.

00:59:41.300 And my second thought was, you've been wanting to meet this guy for months now, black eye

00:59:46.240 or not, don't pass this up.

00:59:48.980 I appreciate that, man.

00:59:49.800 It's good to have you on.

00:59:50.480 Truly.

00:59:50.780 I really enjoyed it, man.

00:59:51.560 Truly enjoyed it.

00:59:52.300 Thank you.

00:59:52.820 Thanks everybody for listening.

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Valuetainment - July 26, 2019

Episode 347： How To Improve Your Brain Power

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