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HOW TO MEMORIZE LINES INSTANTLY (SERIOUSLY) | Nelson Dellis | YouTubeToText
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This content introduces a simple, rapid technique for memorizing lines of text, such as poetry or scripts, by converting them into a sequence of first letters and then reconstructing the original text.
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- What's up, everyone, Nelson Dellis here
for another episode of Random Memory Tips,
and in this video, I'm gonna teach you
how to memorize any lines of text,
any lines of poetry really quick.
It's a really simple,
and I don't even know how it works,
technique for memory and memorizing those kinds of things.
You gotta see this, let's go.
(energetic rhythmic music)
So, I learned this technique watching another YouTube video.
It's not something that I came up with
or had ever heard about until I watched
Lauren Tothero's video on this.
I don't know where she got it from either
or if she came up with it, but I tried it
and it involves like zero memory techniques.
It's just kind of doing this process
that your brain somehow gobbles up this information
and it is able to spew it back out.
It's insane. - Wait.
- I will say that if you do this,
yes, you'll get the lines in your heads really fast,
but you then have to maybe apply a memory palace technique
to help kind of solidify it there
for longer periods of time.
But if you're on set, if you're about to deliver something
and you need to get those lines right in your head,
this technique is almost fool-proof.
I have a goal in mind, but I think to start
we could do something very simple
like this random line from a random poem called Sasquatch.
The Sasquatch squats, flowers in hand,
on an old stump by the riverbed.
THat's the first two lines.
You read over that line, or lines, a couple times
to kinda get the gist of it in your head.
Okay, so the Sasquatch squats, flowers in hand,
on an old stump by the riverbed.
Sasquatch squats, flowers in hand,
on an old stump by the riverbed.
Then what you do is,
and do it with a pen on a piece of paper
just so you get that visual memory,
is write down the first letter of each word.
So, the is just the T,
S for Sasquatch, and include punctutation
and capitals if they have capital letters.
Squats comma flowers in hand comma
on an old stump
by the riverbed period.
This is what I have.
Doesn't look like much,
but then what you try to do is try to read this, right?
Try to read what it actually is
just using the first letter of each word.
And so it may seem a bit impossible,
but if you think about it and you remember a little bit
the visual things that you saw when you first read it,
you can kinda put it together.
And if you can't get it, you can always kind of look back,
but you should be able to get this pretty quick.
So, the Sasquatch squats, flowers in hand,
on an old stump
by the riverbank.
I think.
Bed.
So, then what you do is once you kinda have that,
read this over a couple times in your head.
The Sasquatch squats, flowers in hand,
on an old stump by the riverbed.
The Sasquatch squats, flower in hand, flowers in hand,
on an old stump by the riverbed.
That's it.
Now, that's not that impressive
just because that's just two lines,
so let's try it maybe with something
a little more complicated like--
- Nick, I want to explain.
- What's there to explain?
- But I just want to say that--
- Look, I'm not the first guy who fell in love
with a girl he met in a restaurant
who then turned out to be
the daughter of a kidnapped scientist,
only to lose her to a childhood lover
who she'd last seen on a deserted island
and who turned out, 15 years later,
to be the leader of the French Underground.
- I know it.
It all sounds like some bad movie.
- Just to reiterate what the quote is exactly,
I'm not the first guy who fell in love
with woman that he met at a restaurant
who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientists,
only to lose her to her childhood lover
who she last saw on a deserted island
who then turned out, 15 years later,
to be the leader of the French Underground.
Yeah.
- Well, it's a little confusing.
- Maybe I'll read it one more time.
First guy who fell in love with a woman
that he met at a restaurant
who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist,
only to lose her to her childhood lover
who she last saw on a deserted island
who then turned out, 15 years later,
to be the leader of the French Underground.
Now, this next step is to write down all those letters,
just the first letters,
and I think it helps if you write it
in the same format that you're reading it.
So if something skips the next line,
you should write it out that way.
That way you have the visual memory of it when you read it,
the visual memory when you write it down,
and then then you try to actually remember it
with all those pieces together,
you actually have kind of
an amazing blueprint of it in your head.
Here it is.
Yeah, that's a lot of letters, right?
So, let's try to read it.
Let me see if I can read it.
I have it here in case I need to look over.
The first few times, just try to get through it.
I'm not the first guy who fell in love
with a woman that he met at a restaurant who then turned out
to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist,
only to lose her to her childhood lover
who she last saw on a deserted island
who then turned out, 15 years later,
to be the leader of the French Underground.
Alright, let's try this. (dramatic chord)
I'm not the first guy who fell in love
with a woman who he met at a restaurant
who then turned out to be
the daughter of a kidnapped scientist,
only to lose her to her childhood lover
who she last seen on a deserted island
who then turned out, 15 years later,
to be the leader of the French Underground.
Boom. - Yes.
- Alright, thank you guys.
That was a short one.
Pretty easy, not much memory to it,
but I hope it helps you.
A lot of people ask me how do I remember
specific texts really quickly,
and most of the time I tell them
just to use a memory palace, but that takes a process.
It takes up some time,
so this is actually a really quick method
and I think it's fun.
It's kinda weird how it just gets absorbed
and anyone can do it,
so go ahead and try that, and I hope it helps you guys.
I'll see you in the next video.
Make sure to like, subscribe, all the things.
I'll see you very shortly.
Thanks, guys, peace.
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