10x Your Memorization Skills: Top Strategies to Boost Retention and Recall.

If you want to memorize something ten times faster, this post will show you how.

You can recall information in two ways: words (verbal memory) or visuals (visual memory).

They are distinct mental processes that produce profoundly different outcomes. People seldom believe how extreme the difference is, so here's a challenge for you to prove it for yourself.

First, let us assess your verbal memory. I'll give you a list of ten words and see how many you can recall. Here we go, Piano, Elephant Truck, Bottle , Basketball, Chair, Pineapple, Dog, Painting, Trampoline.

Okay, pause the video and write down as many words as you can remember.

How did it go?

If you're like the average person, you could recollect five to seven terms, though not necessarily in the proper order.

So that was your verbal memory; now, let us test your visual memory. I'll offer you another list of words, but I'll include a brief story and a drawing this time.

To activate your visual memory, simply visualize what I describe and sketch. You can even close your eyes and simply listen to my voice. Here we go.

Ferrari - Imagine driving a bright red Ferrari with the top down. The music plays above the engine's throaty rumble, and your hair blows in the breeze. With a loud 'thump,' a giant chicken lands in the seat next to you. It's the size of a human, massive, and yellow. It must have fallen from the skies.

Watermelon: The chicken unlocks the car door and runs onto the road. As it remains there, a giant green watermelon rolls over it and continues down the road.

Barack Obama - You see the watermelon roll down the road, right into Barack Obama. The watermelon splits in half, leaving Obama soaking in watermelon juice.

Poodle - Obama picks up a passing poodle and wipes juice from his face. The poodle is white, but as it soaks up watermelon juice, it gradually turns vibrant pink.

Flagpole - Obama throws the poodle, which flies through the air and lands at a towering flagpole. The weight of the juicy poodle leads the flagpole to topple over gradually.

Cake - The flagpole crashes into a giant birthday cake with a loud and messy splat.

Icing, cream, and candles fly everywhere, raining down on anyone going by. A huge dollop of cream falls on the head of an obese Barbie doll. It causes an unusual chemical reaction, and the doll launches into the sky like a space rocket, her blonde hair trailing after her. Pizza - The doll launches higher, then as she begins to fall, a giant pizza erupts above her head like a parachute. Long strings of melted cheese bind the pizza to the doll.

Giraffe - The pizza soon falls to the ground, covering the doll, and a giraffe approaches and begins eating the pizza, bending its long neck and stretching its tongue to suck up the excellent cheese.

Skateboard - After eating too much pizza, the giraffe takes out a skateboard, climbs on it, and begins gliding down the street, dodging signs and street lights—cigarette - The skateboard coughs and stops, using one of its wheels to light a cigarette. The cigarette catches fire, and the skateboard throws it away. The flaming cigarette travels through the air, landing on the torch held aloft by the Statue of Liberty. Even the torch catches fire.

Ice cream - The Statue of Liberty comes to life, thrusting the glowing torch deep into a large bucket of ice cream. Cherry chocolate ice cream melts and begins to bubble ominously.

Fireworks - The ice cream explodes, illuminating the sky above the Statue of Liberty with colorful fireworks spelling out the words

'The End.'

Okay, pause and write down how many terms you can recollect from your visual memory. The trick is to imagine each image in the story mentally.

Did you notice the difference? And I did something sneaky: I gave you fifteen words rather than ten, but the average person would have been able to recollect anything from ten to all fifteen words, mainly in the correct order.

Comment below and tell me how your verbal memory compares to your visual memory. Although visual memory techniques have existed for thousands of years, most individuals are only familiar with verbal memory techniques. Verbal approaches include acronyms and acrostics, word associations and rhymes, and even songs, all needing tedious repetition. They can be excellent for a few words but do not tap into your visual memory's incredible ability.

Remember to leave your verbal and visual memory scores in the comments section below this post, and if you think this was a fun task, please share it with your friends to see if their memories are as impressive as yours. Thank you for reading; goodbye!