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you
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so I wanna talk about this particular
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lesson is how students are virtually
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anyone that is studying for information
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can recall that information at will for
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test time and virtually lock it into the
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knowledge bank for future reference
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weeks months and years later now before
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I do this I must preface this lesson by
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staying an important aspect to learning
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if you are a student and perhaps you're
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in a lecture course or perhaps you are
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in a course that requires much reading
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of mundane information the question
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always arises is Kevin how can I recall
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all this information most of which is
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technical some of it's very boring and
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very mundane how do I recall it all so I
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can get an a on the test my question to
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you listening to this tape is this if
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you are going to take an exam perhaps
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it's from a several chapters in a
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textbook or maybe a Tremmel lecture that
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you've listened to maybe a lecture class
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all week long will you simply listen to
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the lecture and then go in and take the
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exam on a Friday my question is this if
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you could take with you notes your own
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notes to class would you do well I think
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the answer is obvious I think you do
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great now I have to ask you one more
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question if you had to take your notes
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and there was one stipulation and that
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stipulation is you cannot have any
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longer notes than maybe two three words
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no sentences in your notes just key
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words or key phrases could you do that
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of course you could you see this is the
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crux of recall and memory and learning
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if you are reading a particular chapter
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what you do is you when you read that
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the key is to read it and pull out all
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of the key information notes key words
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key phrases key facts and details
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so that if you took those notes to class
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you do well once you do that it's going
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to be very easy as you'll see to take
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that data and commit it to memory using
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memory techniques now let's talk about
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just for a moment study courses where
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there's lecture oriented classes there
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are two rules in a lecture oriented
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classes number one if at all possible do
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not bring any note paper do not bring a
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pencil with you to class instead bring a
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tape recorder now why because it's
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virtually impossible to write notes and
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listen at the same time you can't do it
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when you're writing notes you're missing
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what the person saying at that
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particular moment if you have a tape
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recorder with you you can listen to the
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entire hour or hour and a half lecture
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and be listening intently to what the
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professor is saying that's rule one rule
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two is ask questions when you need
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clarification or that you missed a point
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always ask questions in the lecture
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class and number three is make believe
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in your mind that what that professor is
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saying he is talking directly to you
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one-on-one and number four whatever he
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says try to imagine it in a story form
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see what he says in pictures in your
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mind be vivid if he's talking technical
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information or historical facts or
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something vividly see what he is saying
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in your mind's eye that will help keep
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your interest and attention now when you
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go home later and we recommend that you
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do this within a 24 hour period of time
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you listen again to the lecture which is
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now on cassette tape now people always
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tell me Kevin I have many lecture
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classes on today I don't have time to
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listen to all of my tapes yes you do you
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need to purchase a variable-speed tape
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recorder because you can actually double
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the speed which that professor is
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talking you can adjust the pitch
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so it sounds virtually like normal
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speech this time as you're listening you
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do exactly the same thing as you did the
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first time you intently
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you vividly see what he's calling out
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you make-believe he is talking to you
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one-on-one and most importantly this
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time when he says something that you
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know that you'll be tested on or that is
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important information you simply shut
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the tape off and you write down the note
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at the end of this you virtually listen
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intently to this lesson twice and we are
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told something two times and you
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bitterly saw it and had interest in it
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it's going to have an effect on the
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memory but now you have notes the same
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type of notes that you would have if you
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read a chapter you read the chapter and
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as you read the chapter you pull out key
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bits of information and you write them
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down in your note sheet now what you do
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is you take your note sheet and you try
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as hard as you can to condense those
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notes you have the notes written out now
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you read your notes and try to convince
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them down change sentences into phrases
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change phrases into key words so that if
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you took your new condense note sheet to
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class you'd get an A well virtually what
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you've done this time you've gone
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through the material three times once in
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the initial lecture once in the
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secondary on the cassette tape three
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times on revising the notes if it was a
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chap that you've read you've gone
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through it also twice you read it once
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you've committed it - no - now you've
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redone the notes well this is what you
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do now when you have your notes you
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simply take each note each key phrase
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each key word you use the powers of your
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imagination and you turn those words
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into pictures using your imagination
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into pictures once you take all of the
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key information into pictures you now
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take each picture and you build a
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ludicrous nonsensical any ridiculous
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story in your mind's eye so you have a
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story similar to the Statue of Liberty a
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story that doesn't make any sense it's
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ridiculous it's ludicrous is nonsensical
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you review that story three times in
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your mind's eye you can even say it out
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loud just as we did the Statue of
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Liberty story and you take the first peg
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the first item on your story
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you put that on the first peg on the
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list of your choice if you have maybe 50
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or 75 bits of information in your story
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take the first peg and put it on the
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first peg of your house list here's an
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example if the Statue of Liberty story
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was 23 bits of important information
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regarding an exam you would just take
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the Statue of Liberty and put it on the
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first peg of your house list using
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action now on that first peg you really
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have about 23 bits of information if you
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make an utter ludicrous nonsensical
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story you take the first peg the first
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piece of information in that story you
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put on the second peg of your house list
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etc this is how law students remember
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virtually incredible large amounts of
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information for exam time contract law
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for example has over 700 bits of
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important information students take all
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700 bits of information turn it into
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pictures make a ludicrous nonsensical
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story take the first picture which is a
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contract meaning all those pictures in
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the story are pertain to contract law
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and they put that contract on the first
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peg on the first peg in their house list
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using action maybe the second group of
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information regards to criminal law
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maybe there's 900 bits of information in
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criminal law you take each bit turn it
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into a picture build a ludicrous
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nonsensical story take the first picture
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which in this case would be a criminal
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and you put it on the second peg of your
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house list and people always ask me to
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go Kevin how long will it take me to
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turn these things into pictures and
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build a story well the story is not the
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difficult part we learn the Statue of
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Liberty story which is 23 bits of
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information if you include all the other
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ones actually almost 30 or 40 bits of
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information in less than 10 minutes so
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to do 700 bits of information shouldn't
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take you no more than 30 minutes maybe
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40 minutes but this is the important
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thing once you do it it's committed to
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memory you're getting an A you're acing
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the exam well most importantly if you're
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a student you're actually committing the
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knowledge to your long-term memory so
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you can use it in later times in the
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future you can either work hard you can
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work smart with this method you
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virtually guarantee
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you'll get an A in the exam because it's
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just like bringing in your notes had a
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student tell me one time so Kevin got a
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98 on my exam I was the first person
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done
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I said well which one did you get wrong
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she said well it was an item that we
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didn't have in our notes so obviously
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she didn't commit it to memory ancient
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inhabitants it's obviously important to
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take the proper notes and complete notes
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what I'd like you to do now is I'd like
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you to shut the tape off go to the
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workbook and follow the examples in both
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reading and pulling out key information
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and showing you how this picture seemed
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actually works shut off the tape and do
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it now okay now that we've covered those
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two bits of information in terms of
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studies and I think that's really the
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crux of learning let's talk about
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another item and this is entertain two
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formulas and numbers now numbers are not
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covered in the tale in this particular
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mega memory program the reason is in
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order to do numbers effectively in long
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sequences we're talking digits of over
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seven seven digits at one time we use a
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little bit more complicated method it
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isn't really complicated but noted to
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teach it to a student it takes about six
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hours of training the mind to comprehend
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numbers since numbers are so abstract so
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two-dimensional we need to turn them
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into pictures and there is a very
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complicated way of doing it once the
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mind gets acclimated to it it is very
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very easy very speedy but that isn't an
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advanced program you need to walk before
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you can run but an equation such as a
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calculus equation can be recalled very
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easily using mnemonics let me give you
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an example what I'd like you to do right
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now is vividly imagine and picture in
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your mind's eye - bees - bees flying
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around a large clock vividly see - bees
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flying around the large clock the top of
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the clock pops open
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and out Springs a large tree root Lodge
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tree root
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you notice all over the tree root is a
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blueberry pie smeared all over the tree
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root I want you to imagine a nun begins
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to take off some of that blueberry pie
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and eat it and as she does she gets
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poisoned and fall over dead she begins
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to eat some of the pie it's poisoned and
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falls over dead she's laying down there
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dead
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a dump truck comes up and begins to pour
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sugar all over her big piles and piles
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of sugar she gives a dump all over the
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dead nun you see in your mind's eye out
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of the pile of sugar out pops a large
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cross a large wooden cross let's do it
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one more time I want you to vividly see
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two bees flying around a clock out of
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the top of the clock comes out a tree
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root all over the tree root is a
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blueberry pie and then begins to eat
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some of the blueberry pie off that gets
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poisoned falls over dead a dump truck
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comes up and starts pouring tons and
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tons of sugar all over here in a big
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pile out of the top of the pile comes a
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big X or big wooden cross well what
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you've really done is you've committed
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to memory a calculus equation let me
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give you an example the calculus
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equation is to be into the two B's x
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which is the clock the square root which
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is the tree root of pi which is the
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blueberry top pi minus n which is a dead
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nun equals which is the sugar equal
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sugar substitute X which is the wooden
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cross you see we've committed it to
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memory that quickly in less than a
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minute and a half now imagine if I was a
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teacher and you take in calculus or any
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other math formulas how fast I could
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teach you to recall virtually limitless
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numbers of formulas by using this method
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what I'd like you to do now is go to the
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workbook follow the exercises on
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formulas do that now and they come back
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this as we can see students virtually in
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any type of situation can apply mnemonic
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techniques to virtually anything that
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they want to recall what I'd like you to
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do now is go back to the workbook follow
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up the final exercises before we
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continue with the next one
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you