Joe Paz

For a very long time I was not so happy with my ability to memorize certain things.

Specially when it came to giving speeches.  I didn’t want to read from a script, or have to look at my notes all of the time.

But then every time I stood in front of an audience and little nervousness kicked in and just wiped out my mind.  It was like all the contents of my memory had been deleted, just like files on a computer that had been moved to a virtual trash bin.

So I was totally dependent on notes, outlines and scripts.  But I wasn’t satisfied with that.  I tried rehearsing my speeches at home, talking in front of the mirror.

But even that was difficult.  I was almost trying to remember a sentence by sentence.  It was like memorizing a poem back in school.  This was not the way to go.

Now I knew that there are some people who can easily remember speeches and deliver them onstage.  And I wanted to find out how they do it.

So I actually called an NLP trainer.  I explained my situation and what I was trying to achieve.  We scheduled an appointment and he gave me some coaching.

Now you don’t really need to pay a lot of money for that.  Because I’m giving away what he told me about totally free to you.

Actually, the techniques that he used to memorize speeches, and even whole seminars was long that he stole from the ancient Greeks.

Back in those days great orators would hold long speeches and captivated the audience.  The art of giving a speech was one that was very highly valued at in these times.

And the way these orators memorized their speeches was by visualizing.  They visualized walking through a temple that they knew.  They actually walked so many times through the temple in real life that they could remember every single detail of the temple.  They knew how many columns that where, how many doors, how many steps and so on.  All the details of the temple.

They remembered the temple so vividly that they could walk through the temple in their imagination.

Note if they want to remember the speech all they did was to put certain visual clues into the speech.

For example, if they were talking about bringing some public figure to court, they want in their mind patch that person’s face to the entrance of the temple.

If for example this person stole some money, they will bend in their mind at the first thing behind the temples gate picture and stealing money from another pocket.

And they could memorize hour-long speeches that way very easily.  When you are reading this right now, this might seem a little difficult and confusing at first.  Maybe you say: all that’s not practical for me.  I can’t remember some temple with that much detail.

But you don’t really have to remember some temple.  You just take what’s already there and use that.

For example, do you remember what your apartment or house looks like? If so make that your memory temple.  Take different corners of each room.  All the windows.  The lamps.  You can hang in your mind something at door knob.

Now there is a simple system that shows you how exactly to do that.  And you can find out more about that in your free memory improvement course – click here to claim it now.

PS: Even if you don’t have to give a lot of speeches, these techniques can make life easier for you in many situations, and you’d be surprised how impressed people are by a good memory.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I started to get interested in how I can improve my memory as a young child already.

On the schoolyard Paul, a friend of mine, would be talking about yesterday’s MacGuyver episode. And he remembered so many things – he would repeat certain quotes almost verbatim, and he remembered the whole episode easily.

I saw that episode too, but I was just amazed about how good he remembered it. I couldn’t remember HALF of what he remembered.

But that was not what sparked my curiosity.

What really made me wonder was the fact that I memorized vocabularies A LOT easier and faster than he did. In the back of our schoolbooks, we had these lists of vocabularies for each chapter. And he teacher often gave us the homework to memorize these. It were mostly short lists of 10 to 30 new words.

Paul and me often did our homework together. Most of the time he studied vocabulary TWICE as long as I did, yet he wouldn’t remember them as good as I did. And with vocabulary tests, while I always had A’s and B+’s, he mostly got B’s and C’s, and sometimes even worse.

He often told me: “Yes, of course you got an A again, I would too if I had your superbrain!” And I replied: “But you remember all the McGuyver episodes much better than I do.” His reply then was: “So what? What is that good for?” He was a bit jealous about my ability to memorize so easily. We were good friends, but even with good friends you know that sometimes we are jealous of each other.

But this question never really left me.

Another thing I noticed about Paul and me was that, when we read cartoons, he read them A LOT faster. He had all those “The Adventures of Tintin” cartoons. I actually read all the words in the cartoon, but he could just look at the picture and go to the next, look at the picture and go to the next. I always had to ask him to turn the page back, until he finally resolved to waiting till I told him: “ok, next page”.

Obviously there was something different in the way we thought.

It was only years later when I grew up that I started to make some sense out of it… that I learned about different models of the brain, and how our minds work in different ways.

I’m gonna share more of on brain research and memory here soon, but for now, if you are interested in enhancing your memory, I suggest you go over to my homepage and get your free memory course.

I share some great tips that helped me improve my memory – and now, I could easily remember MacGuyver episodes as well as Paul could. (But quiet frankly, there are more important things than MacGuyver for me these days).

But Paul could have profited just as well from these little “memory tricks”. I call them “tricks”, because I think they are almost unfair – because it will be a lot easier for you to remember names, places, dates and faces, or speeches or vocabulary, than for 99% of the population. (I made that 99% number up, I don’t have the real statistical data, but I know that very few people have as good a memory as I do… and that is NOT because “my brain is different”, but because I learned how to use it – and so can you).

All the best,

Joe Paz