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I have to meorize the whole To Be or not to be speech in Hamlet by next week, any tips would be nice if you have some.

-Tully-

Tony Buzan's book suggest rather than learning line for line you

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read and reread quickly... and with understanding over a period of four days, approximately five to ten times per day. If you read for understanding continually in this way, you will become far more familiar with the material than you realise at the end of the twentieth reading, and you will be able to recall, without looking at the text, most of the material to be remembered.

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He further suggest you use your imagination to understand (that is use your imagination while reading). Use key words to help you fill in the gaps, chain them in their order to help you to remember.

I don't know how familiar you are with peg systems for memory so I don't know if you can put all of the above information to use. Let us know and we can explain it further.

Alex

Hey I totally believe that you can develop a photographic memory! But I think that you would have to be patient and practice your memory.
If you use all the techniques in the memory books and practice them over and over again I bet you would come close to a photographic memory...

i also think its possible, but nobody has developed a system for gaining a photographic memory. if someone made a system of how to practice certain things, i think that developement and refinement of the system would yield an effective program for getting a photographic memory.

What would be the purpose of the photographic memory? Why would one want to gain such a.. skill?

Yes, it would help a piece in studying, but I think it's better to understand the material...

The cool thing is that when you see a movie, you can watch it anytime, anywhere, over and over and over again

We already have a photographic memory. We just keep cutting up the pictures to make bigger and better pictures.

Alex

I am going to have to go get The Memory Book. How is use both sides of your brain Alex? Do they all say pretty much the same thing?

-Tully-

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The only problem with these individuals was that they had a very low IQ.

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And what does IQ determine?

Your common sense. I think IQ tests are BS. My psychology teacher brought up that fact, he had us take 3 separate IQ tests, 1 I scored genius, 1 very low and 1 medium. I took a couple of the online ones too but they really don't measure your intelligence as far as I can see, only your common sense.

Use both sides of your brain by Tony Buzan? I'll have to locate it and get back to you on that. He refers to it in the memory book... talking about mind mapping. Let you know as soon as I've read it

Alex