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President Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for
12-years (1992-2004). He was a Senior Lecturer, on the faculty as a part-time
professor, specializing in constitutional law.
He was asked to teach full-time, but his law practice and work as an Illinois state
Senator, and later U.S. Senator, caused him to decline the promotion. Professor
Obama had a reputation as a lively lecturer with an almost photographic memory
for law citations.
Fact: he uses a baby-easy memory strategy that instantly associates (links) two
unrelated pairs of words. These simple cues (triggers) make it appear the 44th
President has a photograph memory. So reports Robert Gibbs, the White House
press secretary.
Personally I like Gibbs because he is overweight, and esteem the President for his
special intellectual property, which brings us to Obama’s secret memory strategy.
Fact: did you know that John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy
studied rapid reading at Johns Hopkins University under professor Elton Y.
Mears? They traveled from D.C. to Baltimore every Tuesday for the night class
8:30 pm to 10:30 pm while JFK was sitting in the U.S. Senate in 1954.
He still remembered professor Mears from John Hopkins University by the mental
image of Elvis (Elton Y.), and the pun, “Dr. Mears has Big-Ears.”
He called Evelyn to the White House to teach his White House staff to speed read.
a) Three/Computers
b) Cow/Bed
c) Constitution/$100
d) Marketing/Beard
e) Dieting/Death
f) Non-conscious/Alzheimer
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In a) Three/Computers: mentally visualize a Redwood Tree with computers
hanging off the branches instead of leaves. What does a Redwood Tree have
to do with the number Three (3)? In Brooklyn many of us still pronounce the
number ‘Three’ as T-R-E-E.
There was even a book and movie called “A Three Grows In Brooklyn”,
sorry – “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn”. Google it.
Time
Please pay close attention: you hold the visualization of the Three/Computers
for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand.
This creates an Engram – a memory trace in your cerebral cortex.
Verbalization
Summation
You have three (3) things going for you: first, brain visualization,
second, a mind-association cue (link), and last, a Verbalization (by you).
Your comment is important because your subconscious (non-conscious mind)
pays primary attention to your conscious voice. You’re first in the hierarchy.
If you say it, it must be true for purposes of storing for memory.
So What
You have focused your Attention and Concentration, and used both left and
right hemispheres in a learning partnership. Get this: every time you think
of the word, Tree, your left-brain will trigger the picture of the Redwood
and the word – Three.
Your hippocampus (long-term memory) will always drag along how you
physically linked the two-ideas, Three/Computers.
Your right-brain will instantly prompt you with a visual cue of Computers
instead of leaves hanging from the branches. You can stand on your head
and spit nickels but you will always associate and remember the silly link
between the two ideas, Three/Computers.
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What the secret again? Visualize a ridiculous connection between the two
unrelated key words. How? Mentally weave a silly story or pun joining the two
ideas in your mind’s eye (imagination) as a picture or mental-movie.
Practice
See: Benny Franklin (on the $100 bill) printing the first bills in Philadelphia
and wrapping each one in a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Can you see Benny
sticking a few $100 bills and Constitutions in his back pocket? He was keeping
some samples just-for-fun. “I seen me opportunities and I took ‘em.”
Did you know he signed both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the
U.S. Constitution in 1787?
Benny also signed the Treaty of Alliance with France, 1778, and the Treaty of
Peace between England, France and the U.S. in 1782. He was the only citizen
to sign all four documents.
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See ya,
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