How to Retain Information Quickly | PROVEN Tactics For Retaining Knowledge That BOOST Your Success

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@johnpark8297]

Excellent video Anthony, nice to see Edgar & Dr Forget making an appearance :-)

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Glad you liked it!

[@JonathanORear]

Thanks Dr. Metivier another great video!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@becktronics]

Hi Anthony! I just stumbled across your channel and it's brought so much clarity regarding memory techniques. Practicing mindfulness and actively focusing on what I am learning/reading when said explicitly really drives the point home! Studying chemical engineering starting from no scientific background 5 years ago was extremely daunting but taught me a myriad of things about my own personal learning ability/style. Ditching the IQ equivocates to intelligence motto was fantastic for my mindset towards learning. I am excited to keep watching your videos and applying them to my own learning in musicianship, math/physics for my senior design classes, language learning and so much more! Keep being awesome, I'm sure you've influenced many others seeking to improve their learning. Kind regards, -Dylan

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks, Dylan, and great to meet you. It's great that you're combining music with math and design. That in itself must provide incredible brain exercise and many fulfilling mental connections!

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

I love that you’re sharing your silliness!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Always! :-)

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I just this week got some feedback on my videos that I was smiling and laughing too often, so you inspired me once again! 😁

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Ah yes, the critics and their sweet arrows. "Too often!" LOL. I just posted on the community tab to reflect on this, as it happens. Keeping smiling and laughing and thanks as always for your kind support.

[@ZeeshanKhan-qo2rn]

This new content approach is awesome and I'm sure it'll just get better with every video and if there's one KZbinr I think is the most underrated, is you!!!!! It just makes me sad that those pseudoscience study techniques and garbage techniques and motivational videos channels got millions of subs and people like you who make content like this are not even in 100Ks.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for your kind words, but remember: it’s not a numbers game. That’s how the corporations want us thinking, but it’s mostly empty in the end.

[@wilsonkurien369]

Hey Anthony, how should I study Financial accounting, Tax , etc via using memory techniques. Could you please research them. Many accountants are struggling. And how to remember coding for a programming language project.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I would suggest going through all my videos on study tips. Then learn to use memory techniques. 🙏

[@andrewhall7176]

I talk to myself about things which interest me all the time. My family thinks I'm a bit mad, but I don't care.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@Caleb-lu3zl]

I think if you want to be able to remember things in a lot of detail on command basically, you need to practice the process of what is actually taking place when memorizing something. I think it largely comes down to imagination and association. Tony buzan obviously talks about this a lot as being the language of the brain. I personally think that ordering and structuring information is always extremely key. Like putting the puzzle pieces in the right spot leads to clarity of the picture both small and large details

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great and important thinking. Thanks for contributing to the conversation! Anything you’d like to see covered in the future on this channel? 🙏

[@Caleb-lu3zl]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thank you! Maybe something about systems thinking. I think mind maps are a type of systems thinking but there apparently over 30 different types of systems thinking and it's really fascinating to me

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

It's funny you mention that. I'm prepping a cohort course for next year that will go deep into that topic. The opposite of systems thinking as well.

[@Caleb-lu3zl]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM very cool

[@finalcut302]

Anthony, do you feel mind maps have a place in learning for someone at an advanced level using the memory palace? I'm far from that point, but I already feel that making mind maps don't really help at all and just make me waste time. As I create more vocabulary images, putting together mental imagery for whatever subject becomes quicker and easier, and I just don't see the ROI of making mind maps. But maybe I'm missing something? Anyone that relies on mind maps to learn could explain in which ways they can be better or complement the memory palace?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Advanced is remembering to always be a beginner. Mind map in a spirit of experimentation and some cool things will happen. There’s a case study in the FAQ section of the MMM Masterclass for combining mind maps with Memory Palaces that worked really well. It need more user data, though.

[@finalcut302]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Thanks for taking the time to answer Anthony. I will check out the FAQ of MMM for sure. Also, thanks for the reminder to remain with an open mind to new possibilities and keep experimenting.

[@ManOfRivia]

Great video Anthony! From today on ill be a devotee of your videos But Anthony i have a question, how many languages a person can learn within a year? I mean a language has more than 20 thousands words, how many words should i learn a day or can i learn a day because I'm really struggling with that, if i want to learn a new language should i know every words? I'll watch a few videos of yours today because this video helps me lots, I'm literally grateful for your videos, it's really sad to see that you've only got 90k subscribers

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for your post and your question. I have a video addressing the amount of languages it's possible to learn: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYXHioqAfrqDnMk As for how many words one needs to know, there's a lot of smoke and mirrors out there. One thing to do is record yourself during the day and count how many unique words you use. Unless you have highly specialized conversations in technical areas of interest, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that most of us use between 800-1200 words, not 20,000. Does this way of looking at things make sense and help you out?

[@ManOfRivia]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thanks Anthony what a great perspective you have to life ❤️ well,to be honest English isn't my first language so usually there are words i don't know, while i play or watch your videos, i didn't know what to do about it, but now you made me change my mind thank you , i get mad when there's scientific words, i don't get the words that's why i hate them 🐸, Even though a native speaker doesn't know scientific words unless the native speaker studies science, so i literally appreciate that you provided your time for me, it's kinda too late, I just woke up cuz i have a nightmare 🐸 the court of Owls they were after me fortunately i kicked their ass i was a little scared yet i managed to run away from them then i woke up saw you reply me, it really made me feel much better, from today on i won't translate every words i hear, rather i will learn a few with the mind palace technique which is very useful, also I'll try to learn a few more languages, and a little science, cosmology, l really love this two subjects but when it comes to study i feel nervous like I'm not ready yet i have to be in a perfect mood, for every field in my life i Thought I'd have to be perfect, but the thing is we must let go of perfection just try something, that one of the reasons i watched a few videos of yours, I'd definitely be grateful to read more books and learn new languages with you , from now on my journey is gonna start with you , your videos astonished me, and i used the mind palace technique it was very useful The word contemplate was a word i forgot it many manyyyyy times, so i used the technique for the first time Contemplate Con for the controller that is always next to me ( Y'know i play batman's games) Tem is the 3rd robin in gotham knights "Tim" Plate is for batman's suit, the armor is combined with plate if I'm not mistaken, that's why in arkham knight batman is kinda bullet proof, when i hear contemplate I remember the controller, Tim and batman's suit. I'm literally grateful for your reply you might have no idea how important this reply for me was ❤️🖤💚

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great "Magnetic" images for "contemplate"! Perfectionism is indeed a problem. After all, not even perfectionists are good at it. May your journey into memory reveal many wonderful things about the nature of your mind and its expansive capacity for learning. Warm wishes for an amazing weekend in the meantime!

[@ManOfRivia]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I really appreciate it. thank you for providing your time 💚

[@Mohamed-es2tr]

I noticed that I need to repeat the mind palace in different period of times (different days for example) for long term memory. Can practice this with repetition reduce the number of repetitions to 1?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I suggest people only memorize info they want to use, making the reduction to one repetition only irrelevant. Generally, you can reduce long term info retention to very few reps. But there are so many different info types, that this shouldn’t be the goal.

[@joshmccartneyofficial]

Love this 😂 great content as always Anthony!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@knw-seeker6836]

Anthony thanks for the tips Could you make a video on Summarizing? Did you think about writing a study skills book?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Is there any specific questions you have about summarizing? I'm pretty sure I covered all there is to say about it in this video. All my books and courses are study skills books and courses.

[@knw-seeker6836]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM do you use questions to summarise? Which process do you follow? Thanks for the help

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Ah yes, I use questions. This has been covered on the channel a few times before.

[@leerivera80]

Dr Metivier could these techniques be used to remember moves from martial arts and other sports?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Possibly. You can search choreography on my blog for ideas if you like. 🙏

[@leerivera80]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM awesome thanks. Already found a blog.

[@Davlavi]

Your use of puppets makes curious if you have tried Ventriloquism? I remember you have done magic tricks and hypnosis and talk about meditation have you done breath work? you did some commentary about Wim hof but nothing on other breathing teck.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

No, I haven't studied ventriloquism. I don't think I will use puppets again... or at least not for awhile. Most of what is in Wim Hof I had learned previously in Systema. In terms of vocal work, I have in the past been able to do throat singing to a small extent. It's quite fun, but ultimately wasn't something I decided to explore to the point of any kind of mastery. Have you done any work with ventriloquism?

[@Davlavi]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM you can always come back to them the characters these puppets are have been used in your pervious work. As for Ventriloquism I have a few sites to recommend if your curious.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

If Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence is true, I will indeed come back to them. I don't have much fun with it, however. The experiment is always fun, but not necessarily the outcome.

[@christophercahall3092]

I have been using Python Programming with Design as a book to make memory palace stations from as it also tells you why you are using certain Syntax:ie>why it matters

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Interesting. Are you using the individual pages as Memory Palaces or some other configuration?

[@christophercahall3092]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM the book gives common programming examples but down below it also tends to explain the syntax nomenclature , so very helpful

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great that it's helpful!

[@anouarnouioua386]

Hey Anthony i want to participate in memory world champion and I want a plan or a program that can help me to train and develop my memory to the memory champion standers does your course master class provide such program or how can I start my own program thanks.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

So far, the MMM Masterclass has helped James Gerwing win the 2019 Canadian Memory Championship. Those standards are different, but not entirely different. It's worth a shot, but the express purpose of the MMM Masterclass is learning with long term retention, not competition. I was delighted to learn that it works both ways, however. Please let me know if you have further questions and I'll get back to you a.s.a.p.

[@zwebzz9685]

I am in the MMM masterclass and also interested in competitive memory casually. I think even though it is not explicitly geared towards competitors even experienced and accomplished memory athletes would gain valuable insights from the content. Here are two insights I have gained that benefit me a lot but are overlooked by most of the competitive community. 1. Drawing memory palaces - why wouldn’t I want to reduce my cognitive load when practicing? Very few competitors see value in drawing palaces even though the value to me after viewing MMM is readily apparent 2. A-Z or otherwise organized memory palace networks. Many competitors have far too few MP locations and rely on favorites. They also forget past made palaces often because they mostly use their favorites and they never practiced or drew their less favorite locations. A-Z networks have 2 compelling use cases in competitive memory. If you rotate through them in order with discipline as a rule you will use them all equally instead of prefer favorites. The second is for long form you can chain them together. For a very long number you can use palaces A-B-C in order chained together. The MMM won’t be a standalone primer for competitive memory but a great supplement. I would recommend MMM plus some private lessons with Ronald Johnson who is an affordable competitive memory coach who has interviewed many of the top competitors. The top competitors also do coaching but it is expensive. I have done a lot of private coaching and MMM and have overall learned the most about mnemonics concepts from Anthony’s videos and comments.

[@cpa8439]

Thanks 😊

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

You're welcome!

[@grippingstranger9021]

I really appreciate all the work you put into your content and the unique information you provide us. There's a book called Tom's Park by Tom Campbell. I think it would be an amazing tool to combine with the memory palace. I'm curious what you think about it.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

It's an interesting example of its genre. What do you think of it?

[@grippingstranger9021]

​@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I have worked with Tom's Park but I haven't integrated any mind palaces techniques there yet. I do think there might be some interesting combinations possible there with the mind palace technique but i'm not exactly sure how yet. In Tom's Park there are all sorts of buildings that have certain functions that you could use for your mind palace.There are also staff members scattered everywhere that are there to help you. Maybe after going through your mind palace you could start a conversation with one of the staff members and explain the information to them in the right order. The interesting thing is that the imaginary conversation you have in your mind with a staff member can at some moments in time become very spontaneous whereas it seems as if you're not steering the conversation anymore with your own intellect but that your intuition has taken over. The practice with staff members, insights, questions they might ask, might give new meaning to the information you're storing and working with. Maybe at one point you can even try and ask a staff member to retrieve information from one of the mind palaces, automating the process totally by means of intuition - I'm curious if that would be possible.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I like how you're thinking and I can see no reason why such things would not be possible. The core difference for me and my personal desire for such things would be to remove random conversations with imaginary beings and to remove the notion of "intuition." Rather, I would construct a "park" or imaginary world based more on the "Mastermind" concept where study and memorized knowledge would aid in "What would so-and-so say about situation x?" This is important to me personally because mathematically, any "intuition" would certainly be much improved by cross-referencing it with existing data, rather than just floating out of the void of some imaginary game... to the extent that there is any such thing as a void from which "unique" or "new" things could avoid. Thus, although my work and the imaginative processes I teach are not the polar opposite of Tom's Park, it is distinctly different. No need to pit one against the other, but insofar as time exists and "I" exist, my personal time and the teaching that emerges from it goes toward a different form of entanglement. But who knows? It might be more similar than my limited viewpoint is capable of recognizing.

[@davidgarcia-rv3fs]

thanks for the feedback about the mind palace website I made, I honestly thought I would hear from you but I guess not.. kind of bumped down but whatevers.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I'm not sure I understand your post. You're thanking me for feedback that I didn't give you? We've had plenty of exchanges in previous comments, but if I'm missed something, perhaps it was not delivered thanks to the robots?

[@davidgarcia-rv3fs]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM oh perhaps, that makes more sense, I made a website as a project for my software development bootcamp, and my final project was based on MindPalace Loci and Ras reticular activating system, though I didn't win I got some pretty good feedback, but I thought I would share it with you considering how you are the man when it comes to mind palace and how I got the idea from you and it would be nice to see what you think about it, if you are interested I can send you the website and presentation, I would mean a lot to get your point of view!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I'd highly recommend you made a video about it to explain it to the world. Why lock it up in my "point of view," when I'm the guy who practices not having one? For reference on what I mean, please see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oafXip2ap86Gpq8 Please don't feel that I'm being dismissive to your project, but if you want to know what I think: Make it available to everyone, not just me.

[@davidgarcia-rv3fs]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM a little bummed out but I do appreciate the honesty, I’ll take the advice, ended up watching the whole Ted x talk thank you.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great! Make it happen!

[@anupampaul3731]

Sir, please show example

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

What kind of example do you need?

[@anupampaul3731]

More examples on mnemonic device. Provide more practical examples

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

There are thousands of examples throughout my work. Please be more specific and I can help you find some that might help you out.

[@anupampaul3731]

Sir, I am from India. How can I be able to memorize all articles of the Constitution with major system? It seems to be very overwhelming

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

If you search my blog for "constitution" a training will come up. You could use the Major for it, but it's not how I would do it myself. "Overwhelm" is a choice. I suggest learning memory techniques for all information types and focusing on overall lifestyle design for studying well so that it's no longer an issue. That's important to be competitive in life period, not just an exam.

[@jameswright5627]

I was just thinking of Elon Tusk, I do miss that guy.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Indeed!

[@nathalienotte4452]

When you are talking to your puppet, look at it please.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Why is that? What difference would it make?

[@nathalienotte4452]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM some viewers find discomfort when you are looking at them while talking to someone or "something" else Moreover it'll probably help with the storytelling and make the puppet more alive as if it was a real social interaction

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I wish I knew a way to make the perfect videos for everyone, but I do not. In this case, my goal is not to make these finger puppets seem alive at all. I apologize if it seemed like that was my intention.

[@kandlearawak9799]

Hey

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@mmccrownus2406]

ESOTERICALLY, it is quite unwise to fill one's mind with images of disgusting sub humans such as NWA, or ugly images generally. They fill ones aura with imperfection, hindering one's rising to heavens realms- where such images have no place.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

All the more reason not to be esoteric, in tall or small caps.

[@varaganisreedhar5603]

Please translate in telugu

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Hopefully one day someone will help out with that.

[@ajmaln3558]

i challenge you in learning malayalam language and make a video you using the language?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Accepting challenges is for boxers. That, or only from oneself.

[@konradnoises]

Honest criticism: Your videos are too long. if you could find a way to make them 8-10 minutes, you’d get a much bigger audience and a better retention. I always give up halfway through.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I spent a couple of years making videos the way you suggest. But after analysis, it’s only the long videos that do well on this channel. 🙏

[@konradnoises]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM interesting. Then by all means keep up with the good work

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

I love the depth and free-wheeling style! No limits!

[@randyg.7940]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM solution: watch at 1.5 speed. BTW the I took your magnetic memory course some time ago and iam kicking ass on my studies!!!!!1🤟🤟

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks @John and @Randy. Glad you're making it happen with your students, Randy. That's great! Any future plans for what you'll do when your studies are done?

[@sharine8512]

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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