Hey guys Ron White here, two times USA memory
champion.
I used to hold the record for the fastest
to memorize a deck of cards in the United
States and I am going to teach you how to
memorize the periodic table of elements using
the same system are used to memorize a deck
of cards.
Basically to remember anything you need to
create a picture for it.
So for every playing card, all 52 cards I
created a picture for it.
The Ace spade was [inaudible 0:00:25.0], the
king of clubs was Elvis Presley, don't try
to figure it out, just take my word for it.
Have a pictue for every playing card.
Then I attach those pictures to a map of my
house.
Let us do the same thing with the periodic
table of elements.
For example, look around the room that you
are in right now and pick ten spots, the chair,
the desk, the bed, the TV, the refrigerator,
the stove, the microwave whatever.
Pick ten spots.
After you have those ten spots create a picture
for every single element and visualize that
picture on that piece of furniture.
For example, the first piece of furniture
in that room for hydrogen.
See a hydrogen bomb and it is exploding that
piece of furniture.
For the next element Helium see Helium balloons
tied to the next piece of furniture and they
are lifting the piece of furniture up.
So for the next one Lithium may be you see
a light because it starts with Li.
You see a light breaking on that piece of
furniture.
The next one Beryllium you see a bear on that
piece of furniture.
Boron may be you imagine that you are sitting
in that furniture and you are really bored.
Carbon, may be you have got carbon paper right
there.
Nitrogen, on that piece of furniture see a
laughing gas because it is nitrous oxide.
Oxygen, may be you see an oxygen tank right
there.
Fluorine, may be you see like tyre or something
and for Neon just visualize a neon light.
You could do that for each element on the
periodic table, all of them.
Then when you want to recall the list you
just mentally, close your eyes, walk by through
the room in your headand you see a hydrogen
bomb, you think of hydrogen, you see helium
balloons you think of Helium, you see light
you think of lithium, you see a bear you think
of Beryllium.
If you have a piece of furniture for every
single element then you could memorize the
entire periodic table of elements.
Use your house, your friend's house, your
mom's house and you classroom to memorize
the periodic table of elements using this
method.
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