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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How to memorize everything.
You ever watch a film and youwonder how these people can just
remember all of these things.
Well, multiply that by like 10.
When you're a comedian okay,because a comedian does not
share a script with somebodyelse.
There's no moments of actionwhere they're running across a
(00:21):
bridge and shooting at somebodyout of an hour, hour and a half
film, or something like that.
The amount of memorization thata comedian does is pretty much
like a single play, it's like aplay on Broadway, but you do it
all by yourself and I feel likeit's the highest level of
memorization, because there'snothing else like it that you do
in front of an audience rightNow.
(00:44):
There's other things, likebeing a doctor, medicine.
That's a different kind of likememorization, right, but to be
able to remember word for wordand go through dialogue and act
it out, that's a big difference.
So here's how you do it.
So, first off and probably lastoff, but anyway, there was this
(01:06):
one guy, sanford Meisner, okay,and he was an acting instructor
for some of the greats ever.
Okay, I'm not going to get intonames, I'm just trying to keep
it short, simple and to thepoint, right, but the Meisner
technique was basically one ofthis guy's many of several
(01:28):
techniques that he used formemorization, but I'm really
just going to talk about one fora moment, because I feel like
that's the one that's the best,and the Meisner technique.
What you're essentially doingis you're trying to memorize
dialogue.
Okay, and I say dialogue, butdon't get me wrong, you could do
this for a test, or you coulduse it for literally everything.
(01:49):
Ok, anything that's less thancomedy or even above or whatever
.
The technique isn't going to bedifferent, ok, but the
technique is basically this Onceyou start to learn your lines
or whatever it is information insome sort of a memorized way,
once you can actually kind oflike say them to yourself, or
(02:11):
even leading up to that.
It's a lot harder if you do itleading up to that, because
you're about to incorporateanother stage of difficulty.
Now, imagine if you're likerunning down, running on a track
field just straight, like ahundred yards.
Okay.
Now imagine there was all sortsof obstacles in front of there,
okay.
The Maser technique basicallysays that by giving yourself a
(02:33):
task, a small task, while you'retrying to memorize something,
you're essentially forcingyourself to think harder because
you're dealing with a directaction in front of you, such as,
uh, taking a long ball of yarnand tying it into knots, and
then another knot and anotherknot and another, just keep
going, keep going, right, and,as you're saying that, you're,
you're saying your dialogue,your lines, memorizing whatever
(02:54):
it is that you're supposed to besaying out loud.
Because, as you're consciouslyfocusing on the task at hand,
whatever this might be doesn'thave to be a ball of yarn, it
could be anything, okay, um, youcould do it while driving and
this, and that you, you'rebasically still in the
background, trying to memorizethis stuff.
(03:15):
So you're giving your physicalbody an action.
That's the key principle Givingyour physical body an action.
It's a task, and the moredifficult or, excuse me, the
more complicated, the better,okay.
But it has to be something youcan actually do, not something
you haven't done before.
You know what I mean.
You're not trying to learn anew skill, you're just trying to
problem solve.
You're trying to untangle thisball of yarn, or tangle a ball
(03:38):
of yarn, okay.
Or do it while you're puttingthe dish I do it a lot of times
when I'm putting the dishes awayokay.
But the key is giving yourselfan external task that you're
doing.
The more difficult, the better,and you can do it for multiple
different, diverse tasks, butthat essentially, will help you
to drill your um, your conscious, uh, task, the the actual main
(04:02):
goal that you really want tohave, which is memorizing
information.
As you're saying it out loud,you're drilling it past your
consciousness right and intoyour subconscious.
Past your consciousness rightand into your subconscious.
Okay, you're removing thethinking aspect of it and you're
essentially just drilling it toa subconscious level.
(04:23):
So when you're on stage oryou're talking, you're doing
your speech or whatever it isokay, you're no longer thinking
about it.
You're essentially on autopilot.
You know when sports players andstuff say that they hit a
certain state to where they justfelt like a lot of the guys
when they have the greatestgames they've ever had or
(04:43):
whatever in any sport, they saythey don't even really remember
it.
You've also heard of the phrasein the zone.
This is what will put thatlevel.
Okay, it will put you in thezone.
This is what will put thatlevel okay, it will put you in
the zone.
But you do it by getting yourmind directly off every single
letter, the word, what theletters look like, what the
words look like.
(05:03):
You go from removing it fromthe conscious level to drilling
it to a subconscious level.
Okay, no different than whenyou're potentially driving a car
and looking around for changeon your floor Maybe not the most
safe task, right, but you'reessentially driving.
You're not thinking about it,just like you might not walk and
(05:24):
think about it.
Your mind says, okay, hey, Iwant to go down my, down my
staircase, and I'm looking forsome, and I'm looking for my
pack of gum, whatever it is.
You're all around the house,but you're not thinking about
breathing, you're not thinkingabout walking, okay, you're just
really searching for this onething, but you're really doing
tons and tons of other things.
Now, what if you could actuallytake that subconscious level of
(05:47):
knowledge okay and have it berefined in a skill?
That is the brilliance of theMeisner technique.
That is how you memorizeabsolutely and literally
everything to an infinite degree.
And the more you do it, themore you do it especially if you
have a job that has to do withmemorization the faster you'll
be able to memorize stuff.
(06:07):
So you know how you go to thegym to work your muscles.
This is a way of working yourmind in a very particular way,
to where you're always learninghow to remember more information
, more and more and more andmore and more.
Right, you ever seen those girlsthat, uh, they're like trying
out, uh, for some sort of like aBroadway show and they have to
do certain steps, right, uh,they could just watch the
(06:32):
instructor say, hey, this iswhat we're going to do, left
foot here, right foot there.
And uh, if, because they'vebeen doing that for so long,
it's like a language to them,okay, so they can memorize those
.
They just see a dance once andthey're like, okay, I got it, so
I just twist here on this lastsecond minute of this
complicated step pattern, yeah,that's it.
They're so used to just seeingthe body movements and turning
(06:54):
their body into a dancinglanguage that they can do that.
That's because they'vememorized stuff with their body
so many times.
Well, what I'm referring to isno different.
Okay, it's just not dancing I'mtalking about specifically with
dialogue, but it could beanything, so anything that you
have to remember.
Whether you are a doctor, anurse, a MMA fighter, it doesn't
(07:15):
matter.
If you give yourself somethingthat you can do, preferably
something it's not.
Uh, preferably if the thingyou're trying to memorize, okay,
is not physical, because thenyou'll be doing the act, you
will remember it without anyreservation.
It'll always be there for you,right?
So if you're an MMA fighter andyou want to learn how to punch
(07:39):
a guy correctly, or somethinglike that, this is not going to
work for you, okay, because ifyou're trying to punch the guy,
that is the action that you'redoing.
So you can't really place anaction within action.
The whole point is to memorizesomething in your mind, but if
(08:00):
the thing that you're physicallydoing is an action, okay, it's
going to be a lot like you'rekind of defeating the whole
purpose, right, because you haveto give yourself an action as
the distraction, which meansthat what you're trying to
memorize itself, therefore,could not be a physical action.
It has to be dialogue orinformation of some intellect
(08:24):
that you're trying to instillinto your subconsciousness.
So now, on the physical side,there's different things that
you could do for that, right,but that's not what the Meister
technique is.
The Meister technique wasspecifically designed, right,
and I love it, I use it and Imemorize everything.
Right, to get your lines down.
(08:44):
There's different techniquesand styles.
You can try whatever you want,but if you really want to
memorize something, if youreally want to learn it, like
another language or dialogue, oragain being a doctor or
whatever.
Give yourself a task.
Give yourself a task.
It's simple, okay, and you cando many different things doing
this exact concept, like doingthe dishes, or while you're
driving, trying to say yourdoctor information out loud Okay
(09:07):
.
And then, whenever you feel likeyou have to look back at your
maybe like a book or somethinglike that to see what the
information was, again, asyou're still trying to memorize
it, as you're going through thisprocess and a period, okay, of
learning, you're going to stopthat task, look at it and you're
just going to continue, okay.
And then you realize, the moreand more that you're trying to
memorize this, the less you'reactually, uh, you're making it
(09:30):
harder on yourself becauseyou're doing something in front
of you that you're looking at,you're trying to take apart,
while verbally saying somethingout loud, right, and uh, the
more that you memorize yourinformation, the less you're
going to have to look at thatbook or that text because you're
adding layers of difficulty toit, right?
So it's brilliant, I love it,it's amazing and it works a
(09:54):
hundred percent, a hundredpercent, 200%, it'll always work
.
So that is how you memorizeeverything.
That is a major technique.
If you want to try it out,please by all means give
yourself just as an experiment.
Like I said, you could do itwhile driving or anything.
But just get a shoelace and tryto memorize material, but
(10:14):
you're saying it out loud.
Just take that long shoelaceand just tie one knot and then
tie another knot until you'retying the whole thing into a
bunch of knots.
And as you're doing that, besaying the thing that you're
trying to, that you're workingon memorizing.
Okay, it'll work.
I'm telling you to work and ifyou know you get that done, then
(10:35):
try untying it.
Okay, it'll work.
Y'all have the best day.
Memorize everything.
This is what I use as acomedian.
It is fool proof.
This has been Joel Dunn.
Have a beautiful day, check meout.
Peace.
How to memorize everything.
You ever watch a film and youwonder how these people can just
remember all of these things.
Well, multiply that by like 10.
When you're a comedian okay,because a comedian does not
share a script with somebodyelse.
There's no moments of actionwhere they're running across a
(00:21):
bridge and shooting at somebodyout of an hour, hour and a half
film, or something like that.
The amount of memorization thata comedian does is pretty much
like a single play, it's like aplay on Broadway, but you do it
all by yourself and I feel likeit's the highest level of
memorization, because there'snothing else like it that you do
in front of an audience rightNow.
(00:44):
There's other things, likebeing a doctor, medicine.
That's a different kind of likememorization, right, but to be
able to remember word for wordand go through dialogue and act
it out, that's a big difference.
So here's how you do it.
So, first off and probably lastoff, but anyway, there was this
(01:06):
one guy, sanford Meisner, okay,and he was an acting instructor
for some of the greats ever.
Okay, I'm not going to get intonames, I'm just trying to keep
it short, simple and to thepoint, right, but the Meisner
technique was basically one ofthis guy's many of several
(01:28):
techniques that he used formemorization, but I'm really
just going to talk about one fora moment, because I feel like
that's the one that's the best,and the Meisner technique.
What you're essentially doingis you're trying to memorize
dialogue.
Okay, and I say dialogue, butdon't get me wrong, you could do
this for a test, or you coulduse it for literally everything.
(01:49):
Ok, anything that's less thancomedy or even above or whatever
.
The technique isn't going to bedifferent, ok, but the
technique is basically this Onceyou start to learn your lines
or whatever it is information insome sort of a memorized way,
once you can actually kind oflike say them to yourself, or
(02:11):
even leading up to that.
It's a lot harder if you do itleading up to that, because
you're about to incorporateanother stage of difficulty.
Now, imagine if you're likerunning down, running on a track
field just straight, like ahundred yards.
Okay.
Now imagine there was all sortsof obstacles in front of there,
okay.
The Maser technique basicallysays that by giving yourself a
(02:33):
task, a small task, while you'retrying to memorize something,
you're essentially forcingyourself to think harder because
you're dealing with a directaction in front of you, such as,
uh, taking a long ball of yarnand tying it into knots, and
then another knot and anotherknot and another, just keep
going, keep going, right, and,as you're saying that, you're,
you're saying your dialogue,your lines, memorizing whatever
(02:54):
it is that you're supposed to besaying out loud.
Because, as you're consciouslyfocusing on the task at hand,
whatever this might be doesn'thave to be a ball of yarn, it
could be anything, okay, um, youcould do it while driving and
this, and that you, you'rebasically still in the
background, trying to memorizethis stuff.
(03:15):
So you're giving your physicalbody an action.
That's the key principle Givingyour physical body an action.
It's a task, and the moredifficult or, excuse me, the
more complicated, the better,okay.
But it has to be something youcan actually do, not something
you haven't done before.
You know what I mean.
You're not trying to learn anew skill, you're just trying to
problem solve.
You're trying to untangle thisball of yarn, or tangle a ball
(03:38):
of yarn, okay.
Or do it while you're puttingthe dish I do it a lot of times
when I'm putting the dishes awayokay.
But the key is giving yourselfan external task that you're
doing.
The more difficult, the better,and you can do it for multiple
different, diverse tasks, butthat essentially, will help you
to drill your um, your conscious, uh, task, the the actual main
(04:02):
goal that you really want tohave, which is memorizing
information.
As you're saying it out loud,you're drilling it past your
consciousness right and intoyour subconscious.
Past your consciousness rightand into your subconscious.
Okay, you're removing thethinking aspect of it and you're
essentially just drilling it toa subconscious level.
(04:23):
So when you're on stage oryou're talking, you're doing
your speech or whatever it isokay, you're no longer thinking
about it.
You're essentially on autopilot.
You know when sports players andstuff say that they hit a
certain state to where they justfelt like a lot of the guys
when they have the greatestgames they've ever had or
(04:43):
whatever in any sport, they saythey don't even really remember
it.
You've also heard of the phrasein the zone.
This is what will put thatlevel.
Okay, it will put you in thezone.
This is what will put thatlevel okay, it will put you in
the zone.
But you do it by getting yourmind directly off every single
letter, the word, what theletters look like, what the
words look like.
(05:03):
You go from removing it fromthe conscious level to drilling
it to a subconscious level.
Okay, no different than whenyou're potentially driving a car
and looking around for changeon your floor Maybe not the most
safe task, right, but you'reessentially driving.
You're not thinking about it,just like you might not walk and
(05:24):
think about it.
Your mind says, okay, hey, Iwant to go down my, down my
staircase, and I'm looking forsome, and I'm looking for my
pack of gum, whatever it is.
You're all around the house,but you're not thinking about
breathing, you're not thinkingabout walking, okay, you're just
really searching for this onething, but you're really doing
tons and tons of other things.
Now, what if you could actuallytake that subconscious level of
(05:47):
knowledge okay and have it berefined in a skill?
That is the brilliance of theMeisner technique.
That is how you memorizeabsolutely and literally
everything to an infinite degree.
And the more you do it, themore you do it especially if you
have a job that has to do withmemorization the faster you'll
be able to memorize stuff.
(06:07):
So you know how you go to thegym to work your muscles.
This is a way of working yourmind in a very particular way,
to where you're always learninghow to remember more information
, more and more and more andmore and more.
Right, you ever seen those girlsthat, uh, they're like trying
out, uh, for some sort of like aBroadway show and they have to
do certain steps, right, uh,they could just watch the
(06:32):
instructor say, hey, this iswhat we're going to do, left
foot here, right foot there.
And uh, if, because they'vebeen doing that for so long,
it's like a language to them,okay, so they can memorize those
.
They just see a dance once andthey're like, okay, I got it, so
I just twist here on this lastsecond minute of this
complicated step pattern, yeah,that's it.
They're so used to just seeingthe body movements and turning
(06:54):
their body into a dancinglanguage that they can do that.
That's because they'vememorized stuff with their body
so many times.
Well, what I'm referring to isno different.
Okay, it's just not dancing I'mtalking about specifically with
dialogue, but it could beanything, so anything that you
have to remember.
Whether you are a doctor, anurse, a MMA fighter, it doesn't
(07:15):
matter.
If you give yourself somethingthat you can do, preferably
something it's not.
Uh, preferably if the thingyou're trying to memorize, okay,
is not physical, because thenyou'll be doing the act, you
will remember it without anyreservation.
It'll always be there for you,right?
So if you're an MMA fighter andyou want to learn how to punch
(07:39):
a guy correctly, or somethinglike that, this is not going to
work for you, okay, because ifyou're trying to punch the guy,
that is the action that you'redoing.
So you can't really place anaction within action.
The whole point is to memorizesomething in your mind, but if
(08:00):
the thing that you're physicallydoing is an action, okay, it's
going to be a lot like you'rekind of defeating the whole
purpose, right, because you haveto give yourself an action as
the distraction, which meansthat what you're trying to
memorize itself, therefore,could not be a physical action.
It has to be dialogue orinformation of some intellect
(08:24):
that you're trying to instillinto your subconsciousness.
So now, on the physical side,there's different things that
you could do for that, right,but that's not what the Meister
technique is.
The Meister technique wasspecifically designed, right,
and I love it, I use it and Imemorize everything.
Right, to get your lines down.
(08:44):
There's different techniquesand styles.
You can try whatever you want,but if you really want to
memorize something, if youreally want to learn it, like
another language or dialogue, oragain being a doctor or
whatever.
Give yourself a task.
Give yourself a task.
It's simple, okay, and you cando many different things doing
this exact concept, like doingthe dishes, or while you're
driving, trying to say yourdoctor information out loud Okay
(09:07):
.
And then, whenever you feel likeyou have to look back at your
maybe like a book or somethinglike that to see what the
information was, again, asyou're still trying to memorize
it, as you're going through thisprocess and a period, okay, of
learning, you're going to stopthat task, look at it and you're
just going to continue, okay.
And then you realize, the moreand more that you're trying to
memorize this, the less you'reactually, uh, you're making it
(09:30):
harder on yourself becauseyou're doing something in front
of you that you're looking at,you're trying to take apart,
while verbally saying somethingout loud, right, and uh, the
more that you memorize yourinformation, the less you're
going to have to look at thatbook or that text because you're
adding layers of difficulty toit, right?
So it's brilliant, I love it,it's amazing and it works a
(09:54):
hundred percent, a hundredpercent, 200%, it'll always work
.
So that is how you memorizeeverything.
That is a major technique.
If you want to try it out,please by all means give
yourself just as an experiment.
Like I said, you could do itwhile driving or anything.
But just get a shoelace and tryto memorize material, but
(10:14):
you're saying it out loud.
Just take that long shoelaceand just tie one knot and then
tie another knot until you'retying the whole thing into a
bunch of knots.
And as you're doing that, besaying the thing that you're
trying to, that you're workingon memorizing.
Okay, it'll work.
I'm telling you to work and ifyou know you get that done, then
(10:35):
try untying it.
Okay, it'll work.
Y'all have the best day.
Memorize everything.
This is what I use as acomedian.
It is fool proof.
This has been Joel Dunn.
Have a beautiful day, check meout.
Peace.
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