Contest – Best Memory Training Story
Most readers of our Blog are graduates of our Memory Training Workshop. If you haven’t taken the Memory Training Workshop, it is a phenomenal and life changing experience. You can learn more about it on our website and enroll.
For this month’s contest, I want to hear about your experience USING memory training.
Did you impress a client by remembering all of their family member’s names? Did you land a big account by effortlessly remembering answers to their objections? Ace an exam? Give a jaw dropping, hour long presentation without one single note? Share your story on how you used memory training.
Here is what you are playing for:
- First Place – A Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle and our wildly popular light-up pen
- Second Place – An “Expect Success” book
- Third Place – A super cool blue light-up pen
I will judge entries on how the memory techniques were used and the results they produced.
Winners will be announced on the blog and contacted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 so submit your story today! All you need to do is post a comment below.
Be Free!
Tom Weber
Instructor
A few years ago I was invited to a weekly bible study by a friend at work. I never even had a bible and had to borrow one, so needless to say, I was a fish out of water trying to locate passages. I didn’t know the Old Testament from the New Testament. This study was held at a Church where the ladies knew their bibles forwads and backwards. When called on to recite a passage, I got red-faced fumbling around without a clue. So I went home and used the tools in “Memorizing the Books of the Bible”. At the very next class I stood up and recited every book. The class exploded in applause. One of the ladies came up to me after the class, tears welling up in her eyes. She said she was so worried about me and my lack of bible knowledge, and she had prayed for me every day that week–that God would fill me with bible knowledge. Her prayers were answered in a big way. It was so touching for all of us.
Comment by Chris — May 8, 2008 @ 9:24 am
Wow Chris! That is an amazing story. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us.
Comment by loren — May 11, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
My 4-yr old son has a preschool project where each week he receives a bag with a letter on it and it is his job to put something that begins with that letter in the bag. This week was “X” week. Ugg. We went to the online kids dictionary for help and up popped a dinosaur called a Xioasaurus (show-saurus). My son was excited to bring in one of his dinosaurs, but I explained that he can only do that if he can remember the name of the dinosaur (he couldn’t just say “Dinosaur”-that doesn’t start with “x”) So, since he can’t read, I decided to try a memory technique. I told him to think of a picture in his head of him and his sister dancing, or “doing a show”, with the dinosaur. (for people without little kids, 4 and 5 yr olds love to make up and perform shows) Anyway, it worked! He remembered that the dinosaur was called a Xioasaurus, and he even repeated back how he remembered. His teacher thought he was a genius!
We love having school-aged children at the workshop. At age 4, I thought my son was too young to get it, but it amazing how simple and easy the memory tools are to use. I am excited about teaching both my kids these tools to help them through school.
Comment by loren — May 13, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
This is another kid story. My 9 year old needed to memorize a 16 line poem by Shel Silverstein. Of course, I found out about it the day before she needed to recite. No problem. I pulled out the old memory trick book and we went to work. She was familiar with the system because we have used the body files to shop for groceries and do other things. I helped her choose triggers for each line, and turn them to images. She read the poem a few times to make sure she was familiar with the exact wording. Then she practiced reciting from memory. In 45 minutes she had it nailed – and it was fun, not stressful. We reviewed later that evening and the next morning.
And the recital? Perfect. Even better, she was so relaxed and confident that she even managed an expressive interpretation.
Yeah, we’re diggin’ the memory training scene.
Comment by Dave — May 14, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
I listen to weekly talks by Tim Keller, a minister in Manhatten, who has been my intellectual and spiritual stimulus for the last few years. I have been doggedly committed to taking notes on them so that I can refer back to them even 1-2 year in the past. I put the notes into one big Word document, and then can easily search by a key word, and thus find the talk that I want to listen to again, or share with a friend.
But as a father of two small children, it is very hard for me to take the time to take notes. Listening is no problem (doing dishes, jogging, etc.) but I’ve fallen behind and become discouraged about not getting the notes done. I used to try to scribble key ideas on pices of paper, but they would get lost, etc. Then I recenlty rememberd to apply my memorizing techniques, typically using my 10 body parts! It works great: as I listen, I attach key points to my toes, knees, etc. and then in a couple of minutes I can sit down and type up all I need for the notes! It is serving two purposes: I’m able now to keep up with my notes, and derive great satisfaction from that. Also, I’m getting better and better with the weekly practice of memorizing. Thus, when I need it for business or other uses, I’ll be in tip top shape!
Comment by Douglas Alexander — May 20, 2008 @ 9:16 am
On the way to my first memory class I received a phone call from a friend asking me to audition for a play she was directing at our local theatre. I told her I would call her back. Turning to my husband, I was in shock to receive a call like that because I had no training or experience in theatre! I told him it sounded fun, but I was scared to death I would never remember all the lines. He looked at me and said, “do you not remember we’re on our way to a memory class!” I took the class, got the lead in the play and have since done another play and a book review for a ladies group…all by using training I received in the class. Has been a real plus in my life.
Comment by Kay Sanders — May 20, 2008 @ 10:55 am
I attended a work group trip to a furniture showroom to help decide on new furniture and new look for our office. We were treated very well, and hosted by about 5 sales people and managers from the showroom. As I met each person, I used their name. During their intro, I mentally rehearsed their names using pictures as I was taught by memory training. We toured around and then we were to leave. Upon leaving, I shook every salesperson’s hand and thanked each, using his or her name and what I enjoyed about the visit. The funny part was that the sales people were trying to read my name tag as I was shaking their hand, and they could not come up with my name in time. They were gracious, but only one used my name. I thought it was funny that the sales people, who should be doing this automatically did not know how to remember and use names, but I did! It was great fun and rewarding and surprised the sales people!
Comment by Anne Whitaker — May 20, 2008 @ 11:48 am
My daughter (age 14) who attended your memory class with me was discussing in school she had a test on the Bill of Rights. She was having trouble remembering them. I told her to put them on her body list. The first one was Freedom of religion. I told my daughter to imagine your standing on a Bible. The second one was the right to bear arms and I told her to imagine her mother packing a shot gun on her knee and saying “come and get me”. We went thru the ten bill of rights and attached each one to her body list in 10 minutes. She knew each one a hour later and I asked her to tell me number 4 or bill of right number 7 and she knew it. It was great. What a great learning tool to have the rest of her life.
Tony Mackie
Comment by Tony Mackie — May 20, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
A long time ago, in a land far, far away I searched to my soul, nay, I racked my very intelligence in the desperate hope of finding the perfect memory for my head. Alas, after years of introspection and heated deliberation, I arrived at the pendulum’s climax of my quest. At first I knew not the treasure I had found. At night I would sleep on it to assure the memory was clear. Then after weeks, days and hours of research, my paradigm had shifted. The secret—– memory foam. If you lay on it repeatedly- it will softly mold to the contours of not only your head, but your entire body with PERFECT MEMORY!!!! You can be as dumb as an ox and it still remembers perfectly. So my next experiment was to mix small, bite size chunks of memory foam into my daily diet, or perhaps may a turkey and banana sandwich between two thick juicy slabs of memory foam, and eventually, I have a perfect memory. You can now ask me questions like: “How many oranges are in a basket with 2 oranges?” and I will resoundingly be able to respond with “2!!!” every time because I have it memorized. I’m working on some other really cool memories too, like “what’s bigger, a dog or a horse?” Horse!! I just know off the top of my head. I’m telling you this memory foam diet really works. Check it out!
Comment by Mark Bitton — May 20, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
What great memory tales. It is so good to know that these skills we are taught can be used in so many different ways. I love the idea of the bill of rights and as an actor I really realate to how all this can apply to memorizing lines or even names of key directors, artists, casting agents/directors etc…
Just recently used my techniques to remember a new presentation for several college kids in Seattle. Good stuff. Keep up the great stories.
Comment by David Shoup — May 23, 2008 @ 7:07 pm