It was very surprising on Tuesday Morning on Oct. 15 when it was announced in the assembly that a person who is known to have super memory and could memorize a whole black board with numbers in less than a minute. We were eagerly waiting for the third period. And when it was time the students of class 9 and 10 first assembled in the Auditorium the back drop of the stage displaying ‘ Super Memory Demonstration’ just added thrills.
Deepak Chaube is a professional memory trainer. He was accompanied by his friend Sanjeev on that day. He at first discussed the absent mindedness among us like when we go to a room and then go ‘For what did I come here?’ He distributed a set of cards with randomly written chemical and mathematical formulae to various students in a random order. Then he asked out the students some of the formulas and kept writing them on the black board till it was almost full and to stop not with also wrote down the last two digits of the Mobile numbers of some students. It was just time for the count down. It was shocking that he had memorised the whole black board within 37 seconds! And adding to the surprise was that he was able to tell all the numbers all in the reverse order. Finally he told that he would tell a part of the trick to us. He wrote down 15 words
1. Jungle
2. Marriage
3. Mango
4. Blade
5. Doctor
6. Tiger
7. Newspapers
8. George Bush
9. Aero plane
10. Monkey
11. Boy
12. Police
13. Torch
14. Tree
15. Diamonds
Sounds weird and irrelevant? Do you want to know the quickest way to memorize this?
We closed our eyes as instructed and jumped into the world of imagination as he began telling the story.’ Imagine….Once you are going in to a JUNGLE…There is a MARRIAGE being held there…There you are being offered with a MANGO…You cut it with a BLADE and give it to a DOCTOR. The doctor meets a TIGER…They have a fierce battle that it comes out in the NEWSPAPERS. GEORGE BUSH is having a copy of that paper. He is getting in to an AERO PLANE. There is a MONKEY sitting there. The monkey jumps back and finds a little BOY. The boy gets scared and calls the POLICE. It is very dark out there so he gets a TORCH. The boy throws the torch out of the plane. It falls into a TREE. He goes in search of it and there he finds a lot of DIAMONDS.
And step back into reality. Recollect the story once more without any one assisting you and there…you have memorised 15 words! You call tell them in any order. He said that it was the basic technique for memorising. He added that there will be workshops held in Chennai which will help you sharpen your memory. It is an amazing technique indeed! Try it out!