0:15 Facts on Cicero 01:28 Start reading writings of Cicero 02:00 Is a good memory nature or training 02:28 Two kinds of memory (Art and nature) 03:11 Some are born with great memory but art and technique compliment each other 04:00 With training anyone becomes better 04:50 Introduction to the memory method of 'Backgrounds & Images' 05:10 Concept of the Mind Palace (Known by Cicero as backgrounds) 06:00 Instruction on how to see images in memory with backgrounds 06:42 How to construct your backgrounds or build a mind palace (memory palace) 07:45 If you want to remember a large amount of data 08:02 Why a sequence is important in your mind palace (backgrounds) 09:50 Importance of review in long term memory 10:30 Why you should number each fifth background (mind palace location) 11:00 Ideas how to number backgrounds 11:50 Ideas on what you should use for your backgrounds 12:50 How not to confuse the data 13:10 Suggested size of backgrounds for your mind palace 13:50 Suggested distance between backgrounds for your mind palace (memory palace) 14:14 It's possible to use imaginary backgrounds for your mind palace 15:50 Suggestions for imaginary backgrounds 16:06 Talking about how to use images and create images 16:37 The two ways to turn data in to images (by word or by subject matter) 17:38 Example of how a lawyer could memorize his case (he was a lawyer) 19:50 How to memorize word for word 21:17 Must use natural memory plus the memory system when memorizing word for word 22:10 Natural memory or memory training by themselves are not enough for word for word 22:30 Technique is more reliable than natural memory 23:08 Creating strong images 23:41 Nature teaches us what images are naturally strong in memory 24:45 The rare things you remember 25:07 Let your memory imitate nature 25:33 Nature is never last, education is never first 26:55 If you would remember things you actually saw them see them in your imagination 27:30 Why an instructor shouldn't give their images for memory (more than a few) 29:35 If you create your own images they will be stronger for you 31:10 Value of memorizing word for word even though it is more difficult than topics 32:29 Theory is of no value without practice (same with memory training)
I always admired Cicero’s countless skills and great competences but I never knew about his advanced method of training the memory. Thank you so much for not only introducing his method but also simplifying it with examples while reading about it.
Loved this kind of video, watched it completely. What I liked the most is that I wasn't expecting him to talk about the Mind Palace!! that's nuts. I started to use this memory technique some days ago, maybe 2 weeks now, and gosh, everything is so easier now. I'm using it to learn vocabulary in different languages. Greetings from Costa Rica!!
Your enthusiasm really shines through, I especially loved your running commentary. I loved that you skipped over why witnesses are symbolized by ram's testicles, haha. But it was such a memorable image, it didn't take long to google what that image symbolizes: I found out that physicians surmised that ram testicles were an ingredient in a recipe for a remedy for poisoning. I can't wait for your next video delving into the art of memory. Thanks so much for this!
Nah (2 years later), The word for witness was testis. Testis and testicles have the same etymology; and still today, I don't know around where you live, but in some countries one making an oath, grabs his parts.
I was searching for makeup tutorials in Hebrew with English subtitles to help with my language learning (I searched in Hebrew!), and your video came up in the search. Not sure how you got Hebrew captions or why it came up in my search, but it's awesome to see. 😁
Man, this was amazing. I like reading old stuff too. I would like to hear your comments on De Umbris Idearum (On the Shadows of Ideas), from Giordano Bruno. I would like to understand his method, which seems a combination of a memory palace with a mnemonic wheel, but it's very hard to find a good translation for that book (I almost considered learning latin just to get it fresh, for people have not been doing a good job translating those documents after the 1900's). There is a translation by John Michael Greer, which is claimed to be better, but it was sold as a limited edition and it is out of stock now.
I can memorize 40 to 43 words in 60 seconds with the mind palace technique On the Memory League site Of course, I also used your free tutorials and thank you very much
Floppy Bob I’ve been practicing for a long time. It’s been really hard but makes it worth it when I can show you how it’s done. Glad others learn and observe when I give you the stuff
hey Ron. That was really interesting. I would love to see a video elaborating on the point Cicero made when he's talking about learning the harder stuff first so you can use the easy method later. I know we all as individuals need to come up without own images but a couple more examples of how he uses a series of images on a particular background would be helpful. I've been working on something similar to memorize scripture. more videos on old documents would be great. have your read Dr. Lynne Kellys book yet?
I find this history of memory stuff fascinating. Although I agree that we do need to come up with our own images for things, I have also thought that maybe there should be something like a 'wiki-mnemonic' where people can write their mnemonics for different things. Would be fun to browse and pick out the ones you like. For example vocabulary, both in English and other languages, mnemonics for general knowledge stuff like kings and queens and geography.
Ron White Memory Expert - Memory Training & Brain Training Thank Ron for all your great videos. Did you copy this information about Cicero s techniques from The Art Of Memory by Frances A . Yates ? Many thanks.
Great video! I have a question about backgrounds. As I understand, Cicero said that the background (mind palace) has to be familiar to you. But when you have lots of backgrounds some of them, I think, are not familiar, so they are not so easy to recollect. So first you need to toil to remember the background well and then you put there a piece of information you need to remember. There are only a few places that I know so well that I recollect all the details easily. And here is my question: can you use one background (eg. you house) to store much information from different branches? Or do you have to still create more and more backgrounds each time you need to remember new information?
This is a general description from what I remember from several courses. If you are remembering a long list and run out of locations, use another quality to create 'layers' of images at each location. One such quality can be color; use ROY G BIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). Thus after you've used all the locations in all the rooms you have, you start over again including the color as well as the required image. If the memorized things are *not related* to each other (such as a shopping list and a chemistry list), you can just start over. Your knowledge of context will allow these rooms full of things to 'stack' without interfering with each other; just approach with confidence. Yet another method is to place more locations in each room; I have 10 basic locations in each room, each corner of floor with walls, each middle of each wall at the floor, ceiling center (like a chandelier), and the middle of the floor. To include more locations you could use the high intersections, using ceiling/wall or ceiling/corner, in any order that makes sense to you. Or imagine yourself mouse-sized; the standard pieces of furniture in each room give _lots_ of locations for special, long lists. Finally, time is your friend. You can make shopping lists day after day without the items confusing each other, because memory naturally blurs after time. Conversely, if you want to remember something forever, you will have to review the information repeatedly, at staggered intervals. Eventually the links between items will become so strong that you no longer need the mental palace, though if needed it's easy to reconstruct.
Thanks Ron. Just a question: why is numbering the stations so important if you never need to remember their position (vocabulary, facts, etc)? I feel is a waste of cognitive resources. Please don't get me wrong. It is just a lingering question I have always had... Thank you very much for your informative videos!
Was reading Giordano Bruno's On the shadows of Ideas. It feels like Cicero had wrote resontates in what Bruno wrote in the Part 2 "On the Subject". Thanks for reading it and giving explanation through the text. I liked it.
This is great, but how can someone so obviously eloquent and articulate attribute Ad Herennium to Cicero when it is generally agreed he did not write it?
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0:15 Facts on Cicero
01:28 Start reading writings of Cicero
02:00 Is a good memory nature or training
02:28 Two kinds of memory (Art and nature)
03:11 Some are born with great memory but art and technique compliment each other
04:00 With training anyone becomes better
04:50 Introduction to the memory method of 'Backgrounds & Images'
05:10 Concept of the Mind Palace (Known by Cicero as backgrounds)
06:00 Instruction on how to see images in memory with backgrounds
06:42 How to construct your backgrounds or build a mind palace (memory palace)
07:45 If you want to remember a large amount of data
08:02 Why a sequence is important in your mind palace (backgrounds)
09:50 Importance of review in long term memory
10:30 Why you should number each fifth background (mind palace location)
11:00 Ideas how to number backgrounds
11:50 Ideas on what you should use for your backgrounds
12:50 How not to confuse the data
13:10 Suggested size of backgrounds for your mind palace
13:50 Suggested distance between backgrounds for your mind palace (memory palace)
14:14 It's possible to use imaginary backgrounds for your mind palace
15:50 Suggestions for imaginary backgrounds
16:06 Talking about how to use images and create images
16:37 The two ways to turn data in to images (by word or by subject matter)
17:38 Example of how a lawyer could memorize his case (he was a lawyer)
19:50 How to memorize word for word
21:17 Must use natural memory plus the memory system when memorizing word for word
22:10 Natural memory or memory training by themselves are not enough for word for word
22:30 Technique is more reliable than natural memory
23:08 Creating strong images
23:41 Nature teaches us what images are naturally strong in memory
24:45 The rare things you remember
25:07 Let your memory imitate nature
25:33 Nature is never last, education is never first
26:55 If you would remember things you actually saw them see them in your imagination
27:30 Why an instructor shouldn't give their images for memory (more than a few)
29:35 If you create your own images they will be stronger for you
31:10 Value of memorizing word for word even though it is more difficult than topics
32:29 Theory is of no value without practice (same with memory training)
I always admired Cicero’s countless skills and great competences but I never knew about his advanced method of training the memory. Thank you so much for not only introducing his method but also simplifying it with examples while reading about it.
You, Ron, are just as good as Cicero - simply from another time. Keep up the great work.
Wow, thanks!
Loved this kind of video, watched it completely. What I liked the most is that I wasn't expecting him to talk about the Mind Palace!! that's nuts. I started to use this memory technique some days ago, maybe 2 weeks now, and gosh, everything is so easier now. I'm using it to learn vocabulary in different languages. Greetings from Costa Rica!!
Awesome, thank you!
👍👍👍👍👍 explanation, relevance, application, interest, no cuts, plain and simple...
Extraordinary! Many thanks for having uploaded this!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have a few more like this coming!
Thank you for educating us. It helps with confidence
Your enthusiasm really shines through, I especially loved your running commentary. I loved that you skipped over why witnesses are symbolized by ram's testicles, haha. But it was such a memorable image, it didn't take long to google what that image symbolizes: I found out that physicians surmised that ram testicles were an ingredient in a recipe for a remedy for poisoning. I can't wait for your next video delving into the art of memory. Thanks so much for this!
Nah (2 years later), The word for witness was testis. Testis and testicles have the same etymology; and still today, I don't know around where you live, but in some countries one making an oath, grabs his parts.
I was very satisfied by owning this techniques u r awesome
Great books, great reviews ... job well done!
Great job Ron..help a lot.
I was searching for makeup tutorials in Hebrew with English subtitles to help with my language learning (I searched in Hebrew!), and your video came up in the search. Not sure how you got Hebrew captions or why it came up in my search, but it's awesome to see. 😁
I wonder who "loaded" the EN subs, it has several words changed, trying to simplify I guess... but that Torah at 03:02 ? 🧐
I thank you from the bottom of my heart Ron white
Thanks for being my frnd rather than a Coach
Man, this was amazing. I like reading old stuff too.
I would like to hear your comments on De Umbris Idearum (On the Shadows of Ideas), from Giordano Bruno. I would like to understand his method, which seems a combination of a memory palace with a mnemonic wheel, but it's very hard to find a good translation for that book (I almost considered learning latin just to get it fresh, for people have not been doing a good job translating those documents after the 1900's).
There is a translation by John Michael Greer, which is claimed to be better, but it was sold as a limited edition and it is out of stock now.
I can memorize 40 to 43 words in 60 seconds with the mind palace technique
On the Memory League site
Of course, I also used your free tutorials and thank you very much
that's awesome!
Anyway thank you very much
Your training is really great and effective
Could you make a video how to be a memory champion from A to Z
19:04 Witness' Test(imony); Test(icle)
Its uncanny how similar your program is to Cicero's! It's like you've channeled him!
I know! I felt like he was there watching as I read it to you!
@@Brainathlete if that's true, I'm sure he would see your actually much better than him.
Floppy Bob I’ve been practicing for a long time. It’s been really hard but makes it worth it when I can show you how it’s done. Glad others learn and observe when I give you the stuff
keep them coming a bit long but at this time its needed. thanks. always looking for improvement.
More to come! thank you!
Hey Ron, I just tried to download this book but couldn’t find any link to download it. Awesome Video.
hey Ron. That was really interesting. I would love to see a video elaborating on the point Cicero made when he's talking about learning the harder stuff first so you can use the easy method later. I know we all as individuals need to come up without own images but a couple more examples of how he uses a series of images on a particular background would be helpful. I've been working on something similar to memorize scripture. more videos on old documents would be great. have your read Dr. Lynne Kellys book yet?
Thanks Ron...
You bet
I find this history of memory stuff fascinating. Although I agree that we do need to come up with our own images for things, I have also thought that maybe there should be something like a 'wiki-mnemonic' where people can write their mnemonics for different things. Would be fun to browse and pick out the ones you like. For example vocabulary, both in English and other languages, mnemonics for general knowledge stuff like kings and queens and geography.
Eu acredito que a memória é uma habilidade que pode ser adquirida. Obrigado por compartilhar esse vídeo.
Great Ron! Very interesting.
thank you means a lot. See my comment above with time stamps! Just posted it
Thank you for that review. I have aphantasia--I cannot visualize/see/create images in my mind. Any advice?
awesome !
Thankk youuu!!!
you are welcome margarita!
Ron thank you so much for this video
you help me join the dots ,yes would love to here more please 👍😷
Yeah, 👍on digging up more examples from the rich past where people didn't have computers or even ubiquitous amounts of paper to write on. Loved it.
Isn't it awesome!
Amazing.
thank you. Just posted a comment above with time stamps
Ron White Memory Expert - Memory Training & Brain Training Thank Ron for all your great videos. Did you copy this information about Cicero s techniques from The Art Of Memory by Frances A . Yates ? Many thanks.
That's right, I like that your video
Great video! I have a question about backgrounds. As I understand, Cicero said that the background (mind palace) has to be familiar to you. But when you have lots of backgrounds some of them, I think, are not familiar, so they are not so easy to recollect. So first you need to toil to remember the background well and then you put there a piece of information you need to remember. There are only a few places that I know so well that I recollect all the details easily. And here is my question: can you use one background (eg. you house) to store much information from different branches? Or do you have to still create more and more backgrounds each time you need to remember new information?
This is a general description from what I remember from several courses.
If you are remembering a long list and run out of locations, use another quality to create 'layers' of images at each location. One such quality can be color; use ROY G BIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). Thus after you've used all the locations in all the rooms you have, you start over again including the color as well as the required image.
If the memorized things are *not related* to each other (such as a shopping list and a chemistry list), you can just start over. Your knowledge of context will allow these rooms full of things to 'stack' without interfering with each other; just approach with confidence.
Yet another method is to place more locations in each room; I have 10 basic locations in each room, each corner of floor with walls, each middle of each wall at the floor, ceiling center (like a chandelier), and the middle of the floor. To include more locations you could use the high intersections, using ceiling/wall or ceiling/corner, in any order that makes sense to you. Or imagine yourself mouse-sized; the standard pieces of furniture in each room give _lots_ of locations for special, long lists.
Finally, time is your friend. You can make shopping lists day after day without the items confusing each other, because memory naturally blurs after time. Conversely, if you want to remember something forever, you will have to review the information repeatedly, at staggered intervals. Eventually the links between items will become so strong that you no longer need the mental palace, though if needed it's easy to reconstruct.
@@trelligan42 Thanks for answer, that was very helpful. I'm gonna experiment with your advice.
Thanks Ron. Just a question: why is numbering the stations so important if you never need to remember their position (vocabulary, facts, etc)? I feel is a waste of cognitive resources. Please don't get me wrong. It is just a lingering question I have always had... Thank you very much for your informative videos!
Wow amazing.
I couldn't stop smiling when I first read it a few weeks ago and I knew I had to share it!
Thank you for sharing. I actually learned so much memory tips tricks from your RUclips videos
Where is the pdf or Note?
what's the name of the book?
It not a book strictly on memory. It comes from his writings in the Ad Herennium texts
@@Brainathlete Thank you so much!
Nice
Was reading Giordano Bruno's On the shadows of Ideas. It feels like Cicero had wrote resontates in what Bruno wrote in the Part 2 "On the Subject".
Thanks for reading it and giving explanation through the text. I liked it.
Hey Ron make a video on topic "how to stay concentrated on one thing at a time"
Thank you
Great suggestion! I will see what I can do
Attributed to Cicero. Period. Read the intro to The Herennium.
Read on
thank you! I will
This is great, but how can someone so obviously eloquent and articulate attribute Ad Herennium to Cicero when it is generally agreed he did not write it?
The images of Einstein and Lincoln are distracting as hell
I see you didn’t memorize it
THank you Danny! :)
Ron White Memory Expert - Memory Training & Brain Training fuck Danny
Nice