How to Improve Your Memory

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory, which is a book and a 4-CD set. They work well together. You can listen in the car during those wasted hours that you spend commuting to work, or going to school, or wherever it is. And when …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of Secrets Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. And I’d like to discuss very briefly how to remember foreign words and phrases, and in this case of the example I’m about to give you, foods. There is an Indian restaurant that I really like near …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” I’m going to discuss how to remember the planets by size. Let me tell you a Little story. My friend Freddie, kind of a hip guy. You know everything is, “Hey, my man. How you doin’, my …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory.” I’d like to discuss the question, “What is rote memory?” R-O-T-E. Rote memory is, unfortunately, all that most of us are taught when we’re young. It’s the constant repetition of something to learn what it is. It …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and I’m answering the question now how to remember where you parked. And given the size of shopping malls and other situations, it’s a common question. Here’s the answer: Most large parking lots have signs. Look up …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and I’d like to discuss the question of what happens when something is on the tip of your tongue. It happens to all of us. I’m going to divide this answer into two parts: One is for …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. And I’d like to discuss the question, “Why can’t I remember what I study?” I will suggest to you that you can’t remember what you study because no one’s ever taught you the right way to remember things. …

Transcript My name’s Barry Wrightman, author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and I’d like to discuss briefly the difference between short term memory and long term memory. And they can be further be divided. Long term memory, the psychologist will tell you can be divided into explicit and implicit. If you …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secret Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and the question is raised about the association between drinking alcohol and your memory. Let me give you the answer. Don’t do it. If you have something you need to remember, from my personal experience, I know that …

Transcript My name is Barry Wrightman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and I’d like to discuss the question of how do you keep your memory sharp? There are a lot of different answers to that all kinds of converging ideas, but let me suggest first general health and …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks For a Powerful Memory,” and I’d like to discuss the question of what’s normal forgetfulness, or do I have a serious problem in my forgetfulness? Let me start out with a disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I am not …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. I’d like to talk to you about something that affects us a lot sometimes, and that’s a schedule change in the morning. I first came upon this problem listening to a conversation at my local poker game. On …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’d like to discuss a common problem — remembering to take something with you in the morning on the way to work or on the way to school. I think we’ve all had that where we get …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’d like to discuss how to remember the presidents of the United States in order. I’ll give you the first bunch, and you’ll see how I do it, and you can do it the same way. There’s …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’d like to talk about how to remember a speech that you’re going to give. I’ll start with a general premise that most speeches, unless it’s something very really unusual are best off delivered in what …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman. I’m the author of Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory and I’m going to speak a little bit about the connection between your memory and sleep. There’s a big connection. In addition to the general 1, where you need a healthy amount of sleep, just to maintain good …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’m going to discuss how to use the alphabet for remembering a list of things that you want to remember. Essentially we’re just going to use A-B-C-D-E and so on, instead of the numbers one, two, …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’d like to address the question, “What is the mnemonic system?” And in truth, the mnemonic system is any artificial system to help your natural memory. Natural memory is that which you retain without trying. You’re …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman. I’m the author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory”. I’m going to talk a little bit about the link method of remembering, also the story method of remembering, and then at the end I’m going to tell you something interesting. The link method or the story …

Transcript I’m Barry Reitman, author of Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory and I’d like to discuss how to use the Peg system also called the Hook System, some folks call it the File-folder System, it’s all the same thing. It’s a way of taking all that data in your brain and assigning …

Transcript I’m Barry Reitman, author of Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. And I’m going to speak a little bit about the loci system, how it evolved and what it means to you. Loci, plural of locus, simply means location or locations. 2,500 years ago a great poet named Simonides was at a …

Transcript I’m Barry Reitman, author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and I’d like to discus the question of how do you remember a word or a name that you’re blanking on? It happens to all of us, doesn’t it? There’s two different answers. One is when you’ve used one of the …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Wrightman, author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory, and I’m here to discuss a question that you may have; how to remember which months have 30 days or which months have whatever number of days? The simple answer is still the best; most of us learned it when …

Transcript My name’s Barry Reitman, and I’m the author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. I’d like to ask you the age old question, “What did I come in this room for?” Boy, we all do it, and as we get along in age, we do it some more. I’m going to …

Transcript I’m Barry Wrightman, author of Secrets Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. And I’m going to talk a little bit about how to remember where you put something, or what I usually refer to as, “where did you put the car keys?” Because everybody has that problem. Here’s my suggestion. You come into …

Transcript My name is Barry Reitman, author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory,” and I’d like to discuss a few good ideas, tips and tricks for your memory. Most important is what I call a two-word system; focus and picture. If you don’t know something, you can’t remember it. That’s not a …

Transcript I’m Barry Reitman, author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. And I’d like to tell about a very easy system for remembering things from one to ten by the numbers. and you’ll be able to use this anytime, anyplace. And the hints, the clues, the things that you will look for …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Reitman, and I’d like to talk about the Memory Palace. Memory Palace is a system that goes back about 25 hundred years. It was invented by a Greek poet, Simonides, and by the way, this is a true story. It was recorded by Cicero. Here’s what happened and here’s why it’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Reitman, author of “Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’m going to speak a little bit about the major number system. The major number system has been around for about 400 years. It was tweaked for a couple hundred years and, really, it’s been the same for the …

Transcript I’m Barry Wrightman Author of, “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory”. I’m going to talk to you about how to remember the planets, in there order from the sun. I always talk about focusing and picturing things and using various tricks to help our memory. First thing I’m going to suggest is …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Reitman, author of “Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and I’d like to discuss how to remember people’s birthdays or other important dates. I’m going to suggest that you start a small system of your own. I’m going to give you one that I use to remember each month. …

Transcript This is my password for my website, powerfulmemorysecrets.com. It looks pretty complex, but in reality, it’s not. Here’s how it evolved. I’m going to start with my childhood dog, Sparky. I’m going to make him all lowercase for the moment. Now I’m going to turn it backwards, Y-K-R-A-P-S. That’s very untechnical but imagine if …

Transcript Hi, my name is Barry Reitman, and I’m going to talk to you about how to remember numbers. There are a number of ways to remember numbers from very simple to fairly complex. I think they’re all worthwhile. The simple ones you started to learn when you were three or four years old. One, …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Reitman, author of “Secrets, Tips and Tricks of a Powerful Memory” and let’s discuss for a little bit how you, as an actor or actress, will remember your lines. Let’s discuss perhaps the most stressful situation, for an audition. And if you’re like most actors auditioning, two days before, or even …

Transcript Hi. My name’s Barry Reitman, and I’m here to talk about how to remember names and faces. I’d like to mention quickly why it’s difficult to remember names. But we do remember faces. If you meet someone today, and you see him a week from now, if you see him two weeks from now, …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Reitman, author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory, and I’d like to discuss how to remember everything you read. Of course, there’s different types of reading. You may be reading something very technical, or something for homework that’s kind of difficult, or you may be reading for pleasure …

Transcript Hi, I’m Barry Reitman, author of Secrets, Tips, and Tricks of a Powerful Memory. I’d like to talk about the periodic table of elements. If you have an interest in it, great. And you already know how to visualize that chart. You also know that each element has its own number. So it might …