00:07 raise your hand if you think you have a
00:13 okay i can see a couple of hands raising
00:15 so let me make it easy for you i'm going
00:16 to ask you an easy question raise your
00:19 hands if you think you have a bad memory
00:22 ah a lot more hands going up right now
00:24 and what about the rest of you did not
00:27 you forgot to raise your hand
00:31 well here's the good news it really
00:34 doesn't matter whether you think you
00:36 have a good memory or not because it's a
00:38 fact that you can train your brain to
00:41 remember better to learn faster and to
00:43 achieve mastery in anything you want in
00:47 and i'd like to show you something
00:49 really interesting here which actually
00:50 demonstrates to you what you can do if
00:53 you train your brain now i would request
00:56 any five of you any five people can i
00:58 have a volunteer to please come here and
01:01 write something on the flip chart yeah
01:02 we've got two volunteers right from here
01:04 so one two three thank you for thank you
01:08 okay i promise you you don't have to
01:12 so that's a good thing yeah okay so we
01:14 got one more person one more person
01:19 just one more person i want one more
01:21 person to come up yes sir please come
01:23 okay anyone it's fun
01:25 all right so we've got five so big
01:26 enough applause for all of them here
01:28 thank you very much for volunteering
01:33 this is what's going to happen so i
01:34 think you can start the nearest flip
01:36 chart so all you need to do is uh i'll
01:38 just open it for you so um
01:41 uh all you need to do is to write a six
01:43 one five write a six digit number on
01:46 this flip chart write it a little big uh
01:48 so everyone in the audience can see so
01:50 one line a six digit number and after
01:52 you've done this please pass the marker
01:54 to the next person you write the six
01:55 digits six digits six digits and
01:58 sir is it okay if you stay back after
02:00 you've written on the your digit because
02:02 i need a little bit more help from you
02:04 okay good okay perfect so
02:08 so i am going to go behind the flip
02:10 chart so because i'm not going to look
02:12 at these numbers for the next few
02:42 no you also need to write a six digits a
02:52 all right so if everything went well you
02:54 should be having a 30 digit number on
02:57 the flip chart is that correct
02:59 okay big one of the pros for everyone
03:00 thank you very much and please have a
03:03 except you uh can i know your name
03:06 angela so angela is here bigger plus for
03:08 angelo because he's going to help you a
03:10 okay now what's going to happen is i'm
03:12 going to stand behind the flip chart and
03:13 actually if you don't mind can you
03:15 please call these numbers to me out loud
03:17 one by one yes sir go ahead
03:41 uh sorry i think i just messed up a
03:44 little thing here so after you said two
03:47 what is the next number
03:48 four eight okay next six okay go ahead
04:40 right so thank you very much speaking of
04:41 applause for angelo here perfect thank
04:46 of course you're expecting me to do
04:48 something which is true
04:50 so what's going to happen is i'll try to
04:52 recall these numbers from my memory and
04:54 let's see how it goes
04:59 seven seven one seven
05:02 okay i messed up let's start again so
05:04 it's seven seven seven one two zero four
05:10 eight six seven three two zero three
05:14 zero seven seven three one nine eight
05:21 uh okay wait it's eight
05:27 should be it's nine
05:31 uh one six two five three four
05:40 what's the time right now so what's the
05:44 8 45 8 45 sometimes 8 45 is not the
05:47 right time for me i miss one or two
05:53 all right so what you've seen is a
05:56 demonstration of what anyone can do now
05:58 that's just a 30 digit number we'll come
06:00 back whenever some of you are wondering
06:01 you know how i memorize these numbers
06:03 i'll come back and explain to you how i
06:04 did it now one of my records is i
06:07 memorized a number consisting of
06:10 1944 digits it looks something like that
06:14 i memorized a deck of playing cards in
06:17 less than two minutes i also memorized a
06:19 deck of seven decks of playing cards in
06:20 60 minutes so for those of you who are
06:22 thinking of taking me to the casino i'm
06:27 or you can talk about the negotiation
06:28 later on and also i became a grandmaster
06:31 of memory many years ago and also broke
06:33 a guinness record in memorizing the
06:35 longest sequence of colors
06:38 now it is true that i broke a guinness
06:40 record in memory it was also true that
06:42 many years ago i used to hold a world
06:44 record in forgetting
06:46 it's not official if you ask my mom and
06:47 dad they'll tell you i had a lousy
06:49 memory in fact i still remember one of
06:51 those days when my 15 years old i my mom
06:54 asked me to buy something from the shop
06:56 i got onto my bicycle went to the shop
06:58 parked my bicycle went into the shop and
07:01 as i was going into the shop i totally
07:04 forgot i went there on a bicycle
07:07 walked out of the shop and started
07:08 walking back home and the most
07:10 embarrassing thing was i realized i left
07:13 my bicycle only the next day now for
07:16 those of you wondering what happened to
07:17 the bicycle well you guessed it i lost
07:20 so i had a lousy memory i went from a
07:23 person with a lousy memory to breaking a
07:25 guinness record and the good news is
07:27 anyone can train their memory anyone can
07:30 become a fast learner because today i'm
07:32 going to show you my formula of how you
07:34 can learn anything and master anything
07:37 in a fun easy manner so
07:41 i'm going to show you some pictures on
07:42 the screen as and these are some famous
07:44 people so who is this
07:47 thank you who's that
07:49 thank you very much and who's this
07:51 and then who's this
07:53 let's have a quick interaction here can
07:55 you please find a partner the person
07:57 sitting next to you by default becomes
07:59 your partner groups of tools to trees is
08:00 fine i'll give you 10 seconds and your
08:02 exercise is very simple can you please
08:04 turn your partner and tell him or her
08:07 what is common among all these people
08:10 your 10 seconds starts now go ahead
08:18 okay thank you very much that's about 10
08:21 seconds time thank you very much can i
08:22 have some answers please shout out loud
08:24 what is common billionaires thank you
08:29 of course they're rich they're
08:30 billionaires what else come on
08:32 americans are they oh so next time i
08:34 should change that thanks for pointing
08:38 celebrities what else
08:40 inspirational that's true now can i also
08:44 that all these people
08:46 are masters at their game
08:49 do you agree with that
08:50 well their masters at their game so you
08:52 know when i was a teenager growing up
08:54 when i used to read or hear about
08:56 successful people and their
08:57 extraordinary achievements i always used
08:59 to be fascinated by their stories i
09:02 always used to wonder you know what is
09:04 it that makes these people very very
09:06 successful now i'm talking about way
09:08 back 1990s and those days there was no
09:10 internet and if you want to do research
09:12 in 1990 what do you do
09:14 you go to library that's exactly what i
09:16 did i went to the library i fell in love
09:18 with reading books and i used to read
09:20 hours and hours and finally when i
09:24 a lot of these uh books i found out the
09:29 like most of you say i mean they're all
09:31 rich in billionaires but then most of
09:32 the common things like you know they're
09:34 passionate all these successful people
09:36 they are passionate they have clear
09:37 goals they are they have a good purpose
09:39 they are hard working they are committed
09:40 they are confident but one thing that
09:43 many people miss out
09:45 they all have committed to lifelong
09:49 you name any person who has achieved
09:51 extraordinary levels of success i can
09:53 tell you that that person has committed
09:55 to lifelong learning they keep on
09:57 learning new things on a regular basis
09:59 like oliver wendell home said a long
10:00 time ago a mind that is stretched by a
10:03 new experience can never go back to its
10:05 old dimensions and that is the reason i
10:08 say that your learning ability decides
10:12 your earning capacity
10:14 and there's also the reason why if you
10:16 learn faster you will stand out from
10:18 everyone else if you learn faster you
10:20 can go from underpaid to overpaid and if
10:23 you learn faster you can have an unfair
10:26 advantage over others so the question is
10:29 how do you learn so it all starts with
10:31 input now what i mean by input now most
10:34 people they just focus way too much on
10:36 input what i mean by input is they go to
10:38 seminars they read books they watch
10:40 videos they listen to podcasts they
10:41 follow blogs it's input input input
10:43 input and more input well there's
10:46 nothing wrong with learning the problem
10:48 is if you have too much of input with no
10:50 output what happens is you have shallow
11:00 is not shallow learning for example how
11:02 many of you had this experience where
11:03 you know some of your friends come to
11:05 you and say hey read this book
11:07 and then you go yeah what do you learn
11:09 from this book and then they go
11:11 uh it's a good book it's a good book
11:15 it's a very good book you know and then
11:17 you go okay like i understand what he
11:19 what he's saying but what's the take
11:20 away from this book for you and say i
11:24 you must read this book
11:28 well what's the point of learning
11:30 something if you can't implement it and
11:32 benefit from this that is pure
11:35 intellectual entertainment nothing else
11:38 we don't want shallow learning we want
11:43 and how do you do that
11:45 we do it it's very simple
11:47 for true mass free you need to focus
11:49 more on the output rather than the input
11:52 you need to focus more on the output
11:55 rather than the input so raise your hand
11:58 if you've heard this thing before
12:00 yeah thank you very much so use it this
12:02 is so true with learning
12:04 when you learn something if you don't
12:05 use it if you don't output it
12:09 so that's the reason why we should
12:11 become more of an output person than
12:13 input and here's my formula of how you
12:17 be a master at anything the first thing
12:19 is of course learn which is what are you
12:21 already doing now the interesting thing
12:24 when you are learning you must ensure
12:27 that the quality of input is really
12:31 you must be paying 100 attention but the
12:34 problem is when people are learning
12:35 these days what do they do they do
12:39 because of what because of the devices
12:41 that you're actually holding right now
12:43 because of the phones that we have
12:44 people do multitasking just imagine when
12:46 you're reading a book when you're
12:47 watching a video you have your phone
12:49 nearby and while you're reading while
12:51 you're learning while you're
12:52 understanding and the phone message goes
12:54 off there's a notification goes off what
12:57 of course you attend to it when you
12:59 attend to it what happened what you just
13:00 did you killed your momentum
13:04 you messed up with the quality of input
13:06 now here's the thing your quality of
13:08 input determines the quality of
13:12 how well and how long can you remember
13:15 information it also affects the quality
13:18 that's the reason why my suggestion is
13:20 if you are learning something at least
13:22 for the time you're learning you should
13:24 be doing not multitasking but the exact
13:26 opposite of it which is
13:28 single tasking do one thing at one time
13:31 especially when it comes to learning
13:32 stay away from distractions pay 100
13:35 attention and then you'll be well on
13:37 your way to mastery that's the first
13:38 thing the second thing is of course
13:41 is reflect now many people are in the
13:43 rush to learn new things which is good
13:45 but the problem is you don't you also
13:47 need to reflect what i mean by that
13:48 after you learn something pause for a
13:50 while and ask yourself hey what's the
13:53 takeaway from this thing
13:55 and how can i use this information in my
13:58 life how can i use information in my
14:00 work in my family when you pause when
14:03 you reflect when you ask these questions
14:05 that's how learning solidifies otherwise
14:08 it's all just wasted and after reflect
14:11 the next step is implement and this is
14:13 where the magic happens and
14:15 unfortunately many people miss out on
14:18 what they do is they go on learning new
14:19 things they get excited and they feel
14:22 good they feel inspired and they're
14:23 going to learn something new you just
14:25 messed up now the problem is if you get
14:28 into the habit of just learning without
14:30 implementation you know what you get you
14:32 get illusion of competence
14:36 you feel you've learned it you feel
14:38 you're competent but it's not competence
14:40 at all because you haven't implemented
14:42 it so my suggestion is when you are
14:45 stop write down what are the few things
14:47 i can take action on schedule it in the
14:49 calendar and take some action because
14:52 this is what my one of my mentors told
14:54 a lousy action is better than no action
14:58 do you agree with that
15:00 thank you very much and of course the
15:03 is share raise your hand if you heard
15:05 this thing before the best way to learn
15:07 something is to teach it
15:09 thank you you all heard that and that is
15:10 so true when you learn something
15:13 just output it just share it with other
15:14 people now if you don't know if you
15:16 don't want to teach you could just share
15:18 it you could just discuss it but what
15:20 happens is when you share things with
15:21 the people what you're doing is you're
15:23 helping your brain to pay more attention
15:25 and then you will be on your path to
15:28 mastery so i have not seen anyone who
15:31 became a master at something just by
15:35 they all became masters by doing the
15:38 input and more of the output so i have a
15:41 question for you when you're learning
15:43 something new how much time do you spend
15:45 on learning and how much time do you
15:47 spend on reflecting on implementing and
15:53 and if you're not spending more time on
15:54 input in output that's not a good thing
15:56 now coming back to the numbers i
15:58 memorized i'm just i know you're
15:59 wondering how i memorize these numbers
16:00 now for that i have a simple system it's
16:02 called visualization and association now
16:05 how many of you believe that the brain
16:06 remembers pictures better yes that's the
16:08 reason why we always say i've seen you
16:10 somewhere sorry what's your name
16:13 do you ever say hey i know your name
16:19 doesn't happen because that's the way
16:20 the human brain works so what i do is i
16:26 visuals for every two-digit number so as
16:29 angelo was calling these numbers to me
16:30 so what i did was i tried to uh you know
16:34 convert those into the number visuals
16:35 that i already have and i use
16:37 association to link them up together now
16:39 if you're wondering how do you do so
16:40 fast that is where implementation comes
16:43 when you practice when you implement it
16:45 that's how you become a true master now
16:47 in fact when i do these workshops people
16:49 can do this at the end of one day or two
16:51 days it's not that easy if you know the
16:52 right technique now coming back to this
16:58 a simple solution for you before i close
17:02 if you're spending x amount of time on
17:06 my solution is at least spend 2x amount
17:12 and when you do that you are well on
17:15 your way to be a master at achieving
17:18 anything you want now because i messed
17:20 up a couple of digits i want to
17:22 challenge myself i got inspired after
17:24 monarch speech i'm going to challenge
17:25 myself and turn out my fear and face my
17:29 and what i'm going to do is
17:31 just take one more minute
17:33 i'll try to recall this number one more
17:34 time after speaking for 20 minutes
17:41 if this doesn't go well just cut this
17:43 out from the youtube
17:48 okay that's good okay good so
17:51 that's true so let me see if i can
17:52 recall these numbers
17:55 in the backward sequence
18:00 challenging myself who knows
