August 13th, Daily Journal

We saw a video about how to triple our memory by using a trick by Ricardo Lieuw On, he taught us a trick that consist in get 30 seconds to memorize 10 words in the right order and after that we get 30 seconds more to write down what you remember and at the end we have 30 extra seconds to check the answers.

And he said how did we memorize this and if it was the best way to do it, and he said that the generation of his parents and grandparents, being able to memorize something like this was an absolutely essential skill, but nowadays, no one thinks that we have to remember a list of thinks that we can take a picture, with all the technology we have there is no reason for memorize and it seems that memorizing has somehow become less important.

He said that he flunked a grade twice in high school and it was hard to him to get his diploma, later when he was working as a bagger, he has the opportunity to talk to strangers and that year he discovered that he doesn’t hate learning, just the specific way of doing it. Then he decided to go and study psychology, finally he was learning something that he want but he passed the most of the time in the library and he started to experiment with different methods of reading and memorizing text, and he could figure out how to read one hour instead of three per chapter, so he was able to get another diploma and fall in love with learning. Then as an example he told a story very weird about thinks happening around our bodies and that was a method he used to remember ten presidents of the United States.

Later after the video we started to comment it in groups.

Then the teacher wrote in the board two questions that we have answer in groups and finally we said it to the class, that questions were: “Have you ever lost and/or found something valuable?”, “Have you ever been in a dangerous situation?”

And at the end we were working on the workbook on the Interchange 2 blue book from unit 9 to 16.