Eight-time World Memory Champion Dominic O'Brien: Learn how to learn

[@sindhuprasaddubey5789]

to improve memory live your life obeserving every things that you experience from morning to night then 30min before you sleep at every night try to recall each and every little incident, conversation topic, products that you buy its price, people you meet recall there face, clothes, every little details that you can. by doing this reapeatedly you will find yourself you are remembering more with less effort, morning brisk walk helps a lot.

[@seanstaten2739]

I want to know why our educational system don’t have this man on our team. Definitely teaching our children

[@jeffw1267]

Because the "educational system" is more interested in pumping out Communists.

[@cryptobungus5778]

Because the education system doesnt actually care about the children. This is shown in the quality of the material, food, teachers, resources etc. There have been many better systems created and they have all the best research they could easily implement but they do the bare minimum.

[@avanishreddy8249]

You talking Indian education system? Its the pinnacle of bullshit

[@Quinten13]

@@cryptobungus5778so true. They want to keep us dumb so we’re easy to control.

[@hugebartlett1884]

Harry Lorayne was the Memory man years ago,publishing a book"How to develop a Super Power Memory". And also he published a book,"Miracle Math",which I found very useful. The key to memorising is Interest. One must be actively interested in any subject or discipline to remember much about it. There is no such thing as a "bad memory" but really an "untrained one".

[@shimmeringreflection]

RIP Harry Lorayne. He's basically the godfather of memory with his link and peg systems, etc.

[@MyWayMemory]

The living legend of the Memory Sports, the Greatest, Mr. Dominic O'Brien!!!

[@kevinreider1995]

Dominic O'Brien plus an intelligent interviewer,good combination.

[@mrcashflow]

9:24 came true to an extent in a similar fashion to what he described

[@brucemozart3665]

This interview becomes even more interesting when watching it in 2023

[@mR-dc4oq]

I’m in 2024

[@philiphoward123]

@@mR-dc4oq2037 here. I'm eating a banana that looks and tastes like a coconut. How we have advanced

[@Crazy--Clown]

*Good to see you're still going strong Dominic*

[@ivancarlson953]

Impressive to see her going through her questions without referring to paper

[@ruialex7745]

Information is not power!! But Knowledge is still power!! Knowledge is what you do with information!

[@Winston0Boogie]

I've been trying to use these memory tactics to become a better nurse. Memorizing medications, assessments etc.

[@teth.]

Guy Zandler Lol wtf? Anyone else baffled by this guy’s profile pic?

[@NickKnatterton.]

So? Pass the exam?

[@AvgJane19]

@@teth. ????? It's a picture of his face????

[@adooola.k1153]

I was studying nursing in college, I had ADD & didn't know about it, and i had difficulty remembering everything, & one time while surfing on the internet I saw this book, tried it on exam (it was like taking risk to me), and the exam was in leadership, I scored 90+/100 one of best days in my college life

[@tdedition2219]

@@adooola.k1153 which book and which technique ?

[@khalidelgazzar]

WOW .. the ton of information this down to earth guy is pouring out of his mouth is incredible! Best interview I've seen in a while.

[@lefalipali8520]

This aged beautifully

[@sylvesterthomas523]

Who's still here in 2020

[@r-zeatlfilms]

You fool, you absolute bufoon, I’m in 2021

[@SorryTheresACatOnMyLap]

2024

[@13ivanogre13]

It really works. I taught myself how to memorize a deck of cards and it was a great mind adventure.

[@toastedtarts4044]

Ivan_van_Ogre which of his books did you read?

[@13ivanogre13]

@@toastedtarts4044 Learn to Remember : Practical Techniques and Exercises to Improve Your Memory by Dominic O'Brien. This book came out in 2010 so he has new books since then. Amazon books will give you some ideas. If you decide to memorize a deck of cards I would also advise getting a good rhyming dictionary and a good thesaurus. Memorizing those cards will be a journey into your head. Good luck.

[@toastedtarts4044]

Ivan_van_Ogre thank you, my actual goal into memorization is to help with studying languages, and on the side, also do card techniques to beating casinos, no wrong there, they cheat gamblers all the time

[@13ivanogre13]

@@toastedtarts4044 Hi J., Go to Amazon books and type in, "memorization skills" and you will get an interesting mix of books. Maybe one of them will zero in on it for you. Have fun!

[@toastedtarts4044]

Ivan_van_Ogre okay thank you again

[@jvh1897]

Brilliant video production, journalist, subject and interview. It's hard to get content like this nowadays.

[@valanthony443]

I think he's absolutely right.

[@DavidJeromePutnam]

Lesson 1: Learn how to learn

[@MazBringsby]

Absolutely.

[@ArunKumar-hj9tc]

I need memory techniques to learn memory techniques

[@talhaisrar9580]

You can use them straight away to learn memory technique

[@migiericta]

He predicted correctly that we’ll have virtual workspaces.

[@samuelbassey5034]

Dominic O'Brien ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@DiegoBR]

Training is a natural thing.

[@shortsdeliveries]

Amanda Kayne, wont forget that name so soon

[@13ivanogre13]

Definitely a vivid word-picture!

[@Steglichii]

Revolutionary !

[@SuperBartles]

Dominic always stresses that he didn't do well at school, & the diagnoses he got. It's kind of nice of him, but it's clear that not doing well at school isn't an indicator of bad memory, or indeed a very certain predictor of how well you do in later life. Now one could argue the opposite and say "statistically, doing well at school is massively correlated with success in later life" and it's a very strong argument. But the outliers, those bucking the trend, are so numerous and so striking that you have to pause for thought. I mean a teacher telling Einstein "you will never amount to much", and this 8-time memory champion. I also remember my primary school teacher saying "WRONG WRONG WRONG" out loud in the class when I fluffed some sums. She kept on like that, knocking my confidence. Eventually I got maths & computing degrees and worked for a decade in one of the more famous universities in the world.

[@johnnyparsnips7641]

In his day grades were (and still are, really) about rote memorization. I.e. your grades are a way of measuring your memorization capacity. So, it really is a good metric. At least in the American education system, as opposed to another where they may focus on learning concepts at their core instead of learning facts in a rote manner

[@UniqueNei]

I needed this info. Read one of my books in a day. Barely remembered the bulk of it, the next day

[@danielribeiro9131]

All he said is very interesting and it was the first english video language that i could understood for all

[@symbol767]

9:40 BRO THEY CALLED IT! They knew this was coming! META!

[@omsharma638]

him talking about the virtual space in 2023 and me watching this video in 2022 can see how accurate his friend's prediction was.

[@mR-dc4oq]

And me in 2024 can see it too

[@IrishHoopers]

I have his book and it's brilliant. I'm just too lazy to practice atm

[@abdeldjouadi]

What is the name of the book if u may ?

[@yuvi2284]

@@abdeldjouadi How to develop a brilliant memory week by week - dominic o brain

[@mohammedelgamal5685]

Dominic my hero 💪

[@gurudev790]

Learn with fun to learn things

[@martymarl4602]

2021...new way of learning

[@rajmalhotra420]

Dominic O' Brien is "Mr Memory" and an 8 time World Memory Champion

[@crystalkewe]

Here I am sitting in the year 2023, where Meta and Apple have absolutely smashed the market with their VR technology, jaws dropped at how Dominic said Microsoft accurately predicted this would be the next technological leap. Mere coincidence? I doubt it. Amazing!

[@fortune8394]

I remember him from moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

[@someoneelse1534]

Reading it at the moment

[@Akira-rm5sb]

man predicted the metaverse

[@mR-dc4oq]

I don’t think he predicted. I think he’s has friends in all the right places who tell him things.

[@MrLedep]

Good interview. Thank you

[@tonystark5283]

If I knew this before 7 years my life would be alive

[@hunterkudo9832]

how is it now?

[@vicsar]

2023, here I go!

[@moreq9569]

The learning ability and skills and the most important features we ever need to live purposefully or even just to keep your life going .. so .. we do really need to consider investing more than 50% of our life budget of energy, time, money, attention ... etc in developing it.

[@mapo5959]

great questions

[@syed.muhammadali]

"The big change is going to be in 2023"...even though we might not have the virtual experience that he is talking about but we did have the AI going mainstream.

[@shahidullislam783]

It's a great video.

[@xbroly2k41]

I would like to know the strongest sense (or if its different for everyone) sight, smell, sound, taste or touch. is the most important for memorizing things

[@patroycehome]

Hi Dominique, do you remember the Good Night Club and the night we all played a memory game, I bet you can't remember all the items on that plate... I can't. We all played along with Jeff and Henry. Dose one remember the book I recommended to you? It's my claim to fame, Lol. I fondly remember that evening as being great fun. (Children should be tough how to learn) I could not agree any more if I were tortured and school was torture. I also had problems learning at school, I had a great lack of attention and being tough how to learn visually would have opened up my mind. Thank God I got there in the end. Another thing I've learned is: Life is what you think it is, you are what you think and what you think, maps the story of your life. Keep up the good work Dominique, you're still the lovely guy I met all those years ago. GB

[@Scrottobaggns]

It bugs me when people keep calling this a trick or cheating. Even Dominic was like, "cheating!", when she talked about cheating exams. You can either remember something or you can't, there's no trick or cheating about it. If someone asks a mathematician what is Pi to 10 places and he tells you, then they ask you and you use this method to recall it. What's the difference, you both remember it, it's not cheating. Now if you don't know the answer in your head and have an external source like a calculator or smartphone to get you the answer, now that would be cheating.

[@orirune3079]

My guess is that she has some idea that a person might memorize information without understanding it.

[@philrichmond7567]

At school, kids are taught what to learn not how to learn.

[@orlandohernandez8463]

EL DR. LAIR RIBEIRO DICE QUE A LOS NIÑOS, EN LAS ESCUELAS, LES ENSEÑAN A TENER PENSAMIENTOS, NO A PENSAR.

[@cecilycridland5359]

But the fact that kids use the internet means that they have access to that information on how to learn

[@emediongsamuel856]

Jim Kwik ,hahaha

[@jamietippett7932]

true, but having someone lecture to you from a video on youtube for instance can sometimes be confusing. You do not have someone like a tutor that can tell you whether you are doing things correctly or how sort out mistakes or confusion

[@zingg7203]

Of course you do. We have hard drives and cloud storage. Nonetheless we need device memory.

[@orlandohernandez8463]

En las Escuelas hay que mejorar las técnicas para enseñar mejor y recordar con más facilidad. Y la televisión podría ayudar muchísimo. Saludos desde Caracas.

[@13ivanogre13]

I used Google Translate on this post: "In schools, techniques must be improved to teach better and remember more easily. And television could help a lot. Greetings from Caracas." Was this an accurate translation? ¿Fue esta una traducción precisa? I'm sure some languages translate poorly but commonly spoken languages should fare better.

[@krypton1142]

@@13ivanogre13 yh its a decent translation

[@Sachin-wh5jq]

I want to read his books there are so many which one should i read ? Any suggestions , u want to give.

[@αλμοχάντ]

If school system was to be like that, everyone would succeed, and this is what equity is about.

[@simpleluis7983]

I guess he was right .... its 2023 and what he said about virtual reality has certainly come to be

[@l75rd83]

Imagine this, “you know you can talk to Alexa, and what the name??? Apples one?? I forgot”

[@biggboss8859]

siri

[@nellalert]

Sir Dominic’s prediction was 2023 … Me in 2023: 😯🧠♥️💪🏼

[@boratsmagadijev940]

Holy sheet this guys MSFT friend predicted VR tech 5 years ago

[@johnPl100]

This guy is the Arnold Schwarzenegger of memory sports.

[@AwSomeWookie1]

first you gotta find the information, write it or put it in your own words and then store it using memory palace

[@AwSomeWookie1]

reviewing is important too don't forget to review the information when you start forgetting

[@jeffw1267]

You don't HAVE to use a memory palace, though I find it helps me to put things in locations. People are different and require different methods to succeed.

[@nopainnogain2785]

Sir how to increase focus

[@alejrandom6592]

Search Ron white

[@rizsyed2835]

Limit multi taskin g

[@kind_enquirer6229]

Guru

[@chance5745]

I can recommend a great book, called "Learning how to Learn" by Barbara Oakley. Kindly, C.

[@太好了F]

Reading this currently! it's amazing (and also frustrating) to think that i can learn. Going from thinking I was stupid in school to realizing how backwards school is in term's of what and how it teaches.

[@stefos6431]

I like how Mr. O'Brien said "Cheating?" at her statement that memorizing is "cheating"......what a ridiculous statement............6:15

[@kenji1856]

Yeah for real, it’s impossible for her empty ass head to visualise doing it herself; so she calls it cheating lmao.

[@Laura-y3d5e]

InshaAllah I become a master of memory..

[@Ramakrishnan481]

🇮🇳INDIAN people is Astrologer thousands of Years before. Tamil people🇮🇳 is 🏆🎉🏆Future of AI world🇮🇳🙏🚢 leading....

[@xLaVey]

he looks like Albert Einstein lol

[@ukrajina2022]

💛💙

[@FredoCorleone]

People got hypnotized by the leg of the interviewer, isn't it?

[@FredoCorleone]

@@philrichmond7567 Why is that? :/

[@rajeshsaw5592]

why are men covered from neck to toes but women on tv/videos/movies show their thighs, breasts, waist... ? it suggests their character clearly.

[@rajeshsaw5592]

@anonymous मैं एकदम सही बोला हूँ तू समझ नही रहा तेरी प्रॉब्लम

[@rajeshsaw5592]

@anonymous short body showing clothes are deliberately used by women and directors of the show to atract men sexually because they know that most of the viewers are men.

[@rajeshsaw5592]

@anonymous clear hai ki tujhe show business ki marketing strategy ka koi knowledge nhi. koi bat nhi.

[@user-oq8vs1li1e]

the chemical periodic table of elements

[@Ramakrishnan481]

Knowledge📚 is Soul of Wisdom🌹 🇮🇳🦶🦶💦🌱🌹🌻🌺🔥🙌🙏🇮🇳

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Wow, senior memory championships ! He’s only a few seconds slower..... keep using your brains people !

[@LonelyGamr]

memory palaces seems so hard

[@muzahidulislam2045]

No it’s so easy.

[@SebastianRodriguez-fs4le]

You have to exaggerate your images in order to remember them thats how it becomes easy but if u dont exercise your imagination this might be hard.

[@jimdavis8696]

I will remember those scotches...!!!!!

[@josephlungu-jy6vj]

Back to reality is still 2023 is still 2019😢😂

[@Zutraxi]

Reviewing information for retention is all well and good but when you have 3 exams every 3 months and they still cram 6 hours plus reading material with 3 handins every it gets really hard to keep it going. University is flawed...

[@junktube4000]

He says working memory can be trained and improved? Many memory experts say it cant, other then threw nutrition.

[@publicopinion3596]

Humans store information in spatial memory, also object and dangerous events and experiences are imprinted in the mind. So think of how the brain store info use the method of loci and build your memory palaces.

[@badgastein2]

Not true ...For example London Taxi Drivers have to memorise every street in London and their brains grow bigger by doing this.Google Fred Housego, Mastermind Champion and former London cab driver.

[@jeffw1267]

Nobody can know for sure whether working memory can be improved or not. I believe it can, because my calculating ability has improved throughout life, but I have no way to prove it.

[@vatchepatrikyan8999]

Predicted Metaverse

[@notagain3732]

Augmented reality is strange lol

[@dvs392]

lol i am seeing this in 2022.. half of the things about virtual reality is already true

[@loganmclean6510]

Did she really just say that memorizing is cheating? lol.

[@Niroshmm]

Her questions move topic away

[@Prabhsehajbawa]

Nice video but we are in 2023, and a lot of things like 3d glasses with virtual world is not here. Not virtual colleague.

[@dramanullahgopang8079]

Scientist must analyse his brain scans in order to know what changes happen to memory champions.

[@JeetThakur-y8e]

Why donot they teach these things in school 😢!

[@Ramakrishnan481]

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[@tonyx8750]

Jim kwik has copied all these facts !

[@hernanperez912]

Horrible to see an interviewer interrupting a great speaker. Shame on you lad y

[@thomaswilkerson2711]

Curious that she says we've gotten lazy and then next statement acknowledges that we consume more info these days.

[@d3fyre_rett]

i think it kinda... we consume a lot more info but we depend too much on our devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops etc) for all these info instead of using our memory. for example, i've noticed I rarely memorize a particular route to a particular place because I already have gps for that. Therefore, I conclude that I don't need to memorize the routes. Obviously, there are severe drawbacks to this kind of mindset.

[@amyh5214]

Interviewer - please stop interrupting Dominic. So rude.

[@memlarana7525]

06.32 how is it cheating? How are a using a skill that ables you to perform well. Constant belittling tone, come on.

[@ML-ws1wp]

Great interviewee, but pity that the interviewer keeps interrupting him all the time! Terrible.

[@vdavi12]

This is gonna happen in 2023??? i dont know~~

[@OkieAllDay]

This interviewer stinks

[@user-yf1ml8jt3i]

utter nonsense.

[@scottk1525]

The tricks that memory champions rely upon are a bit disappointing. They "have an amazing memory" in the same way that crossfitters "can do 30 pullups." I think a true memory champion would be able to recall things effortlessly, without having to rely on bizarre strategies of constructing elaborate mind palaces every time they want to remember a phone number.

[@jeffw1267]

There have been a few people with great memories who did without memory devices, such as Alexander Aitken for example. But that's a very rare ability and beyond most people.

[@scottk1525]

@@jeffw1267 Yeah to me that's *actual* memory. Don't get me wrong, it's impressive what so called "memory champions" do, but what they're doing is less like organic memory, and more like playing a mental video game. It's a game they've gotten very good at, but without that game, they probably don't have much better memories than anybody else. For instance, I'll bet if you ask a "memory champion" what the name of their waitress was at lunch yesterday, or the color of the trim on their neighbor's house when they were a kid, or the score of the Football game the other day, they wouldn't be any better at remembering it than the average Joe.

[@Voicist]

@@scottk1525 Fair point, however, in this very video he actually gave good advice on how to retain information longer; even using such techniques, you must still be efficient and practical - for example, of what use is remembering the color of the trim of your neighbour's house from when you were a kid? None, so not worth any effort. But you might want to remember your waiter's name for the next time you patronize that restaurant, so then you would use a memorization technique

[@katherinepablo1228]

@@scottk1525 You can use these techniques for academics, work, etc. Imagine how useful these techniques could be for memorizing history dates and facts in Biology. I myself have been using the techniques from his book for a few years now. I am a student and using several techniques like the Journey Method and his Dominic system I am able to assimilate huge chunks of information easily. Our brain discards the useless information for a reason. In a way, you are transforming the information you want to learn into forms which are easier for the brain to memorize.

[@scottk1525]

@@katherinepablo1228 Sure. I'm not saying these techniques aren't useful. I'm saying these memory champs aren't good at genuine *memory* itself, so much as they're good at playing very particular mental games. In other words, it'd be interesting to see how their memories stack up when not reliant on their mind palace strategies. For instance, I wonder how these memory athletes would do if, instead of being handed a deck of cards and judged on their ability to arrange them in a mental memory palaces, they were instead asked to recall things they had experienced and weren't aware they'd have to memorize, like "what was the name of the concierge that checked you into your hotel yesterday afternoon?" Or "what were the main three courses on the menu at the restaurant last night?" Or "Precisely what time was your flight scheduled to land?" I wonder how well they'd do. Or maybe even if they were shown a long number, immediately followed by a taxing 1-2 minute mental task, which would presumably prevent them from employing chunking or mind palace strategies to remember the number. Immediately following the mental task, they'd they'd then be asked to recall the number. Not saying this is viable method for competition. Just saying that, to me, true memory is the ability to recall things that you didn't burn gallons of mental fuel trying to sear into your brain.

[@johndoe35717]

Wrinkled brain

[@Davlavi]

Great interview thanks.