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PROOF that painful memories are stronger – Texas Rangers World Series

The 2010 World Series was a very painful experience for me. One I will never forget. I had traveled to Tampa Bay, New York and then San Francisco all following the Texas Rangers magical playoff run. I even went to the second game in San Francisco which they not only lost but lost by a large margin. It was a very depressing night. The Texas Rangers were in an 0-2 hole to the San Francisco Giants in the 2010 World Series. We went on to win our first home game and then none other.

It was painful for me. Maybe more painful that your average super duper to the max die hard fan because during the 7th inning of game 5 after Edgar Renteria hit his go ahead 2 run home run over the center field wall my world started to collapse. I knew it was over, I was heart broken, devastated and crushed behind belief. At this exact moment, my girlfriend decided to pick a fight that had nothing to do with anything really. She was arguing that the fans weren’t as in to the game as they were the night before. What an irrelevant point at such a monumental moment I thought. Well, that irrelevant point ended up in an argument that ended that relationship.

For WEEKS I had dreams about the World Series. I was tormented beyond belief. I agonized daily and nightly over watch Cliff Lee or Josh Hamilton could have done different but after a few weeks the memory was gone a bit and I was back to normal. Although, the memory was so painful I could not watch a baseball game until May of 2011. I never sat through an entire game until July of 2011. Why? I had associated so much pain with baseball. The memory of the World Series was VIVID to me. Why? Pain = strong memory.

If you want to use this to your benefit then the key is to make the memories strong but not only strong…painful and you will recall them.

To further emphasize my point. This year (just a week ago as I type this), the Texas Rangers had made it back to the World Series. For me this wasn’t just about getting back tot he World Series. It was about redemption. It was about healing the pain of the last world Series loss. But you know what? The pain of the last loss was so deep I was still in agony. I had planned to go to St Louis to watch game 7 (if necessary) in the 2011 World Series but the pain was so strong I couldn’t. In my memory I kept replaying the events of 2010. It was such a force for me that I just sat and watched the tv with a few friends at a local bar.

I can barely bring myself to type this but the Texas Rangers this year (2011) were one strike away from winning the World Series….not once….but TWICE. Both times they missed it. It seems I am dreaming of this every night. I am replaying these innings in my head over and over. Why? Pain. What does pain do for your memory? It makes it stronger…..it makes it more powerful. I hate that I am having these tormenting dreams, I wish to be left alone, but the memories will stay strong as long as the pain stays strong.

It has been a week and I am not myself. The pain of watching the team I love lose for a 2nd consecutive year is crushing. I honestly am having trouble sleeping and took a few days off work this week. For you that may seem drastic for me it is just pain.

I recently made the comment that when I am 92 my grand kids will wheel me into the next Texas Ranger World Series (God forbid it takes that long) and they will say, ‘He has to see this. It is all he has been talking about for 60 years.’ Why? Pain. Pain cements ideas or events into your memory.

I can tell you ever aspect of Game 5 of the 2010 World Series and every aspect of Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. Why? Pain. I can’t tell you about the game I saw in mid June….heck I don’t even know who we played….why? No pain, no emotion.

So when you use my memory tips or memory method make sure you make the images painful or powerful and you may be amazed at how well you remember the information. Whether you want to or not……

Friday, November 4th, 2011 Tags: 2010 word series giants and texas rangers, 2011 world series texas rangers and st louis cardinals, forgetting painful events, forgetting painful memories, how to use pain to memorize, memory and emtoion, memory and pain, memory training, nightmares, painful dreams, painful memories, use pain to your advantage
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Memory Gym is FINALLY HERE!!!

I am soooo excited!!! I have been a fan of www.memorise.org for YEARS!!! This is one of the best sites on the internet to exercise your brain in a true memory gym format!

I purchased this website a few months ago and in the transfer to our wordpress based websites it caused some glitches in the games. GOOD NEWS!!! The glitches are FIXED and the Original Memory Gym is back up and running!!

Go directly to the gym page here http://www.memorise.org/memory-gym and play games to build your brain. We have

Flashing numbers – Select numbers to flash on the screen and then memorize them to be repeated back!! See if you can beat the computer!

Spoken numbers – digits will be spoken in intervals that you decide and see how many spoken digits you can recall. This is FUN!

Flashing words – Be tested on random words flashed on the screen with over 4 different language options!

Playing Cards – Would you like to memorize a deck of playing cards? Well you can!! Test your ability to memoirze a deck of shuffled cards. My personal best is 1 minute 1 second! See if you can beat me!

I am so excited about my new website www.memorise.org and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. The website has been around over a decade and we just recently gave it this facelift. Enjoy the games and let me hear about your fun and success with the website!

Ron White, 2 time USA Memory Champion

Monday, October 3rd, 2011 Tags: brain games, brain gym, memorize spoken numbers, memorize words, memory games, memory gym, memory training
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Kirsty Dunphey Interviews Me in TASMANIA!!

Okay, so you thought the Tasmanian devil was just a cartoon? Well, okay it is…but a Tasmanian Devil is also a REAL animal!! I had no clue…that is until I taught a memory seminar in Tasmania (island just off the southern coast of mainland Australia). When I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007, I had the good fortune to become introduce to Kirsty Dunphey via email. She had purchased my Memory in a Month CD album. We corresponded while I was deployed and when I returned to the USA she sent me an email asking if I could speak for her group in Tasmania.

TASMANIAN DEVIL

Now the odds of me saying yes to this request would normally be low because that is 20 hours of flying one way to give a memory training talk. Yet, the stars lined up and coincidentally I was scheduled to give a memory training talk in Melbourne just 2 days after her event. So because of my good fortune I was able to meet with Kirsty and be a memory speaker for her group. Not only that here is the interview we conducted literally 30 minutes before my talk.

During my talk I also met the founder of Contiki Tours, John Anderson who was an incredible delight to speak with and get to know. Oddly enough in 2010 I was in an elevator in Sydney and guess who was on it with me? John Anderson!! What a GREAT guy. You need to get his book ‘Only 2 Seats Left’.

Here is the interview I did with Kirsty. Now in the interview I state I can memorize a 2000 digit number in one hour. In full disclosure I have never done this and may never be able to. I am not currently at that level. When I gave this interview I was training to do this at the World Memory Championship but I was never able to pull it off. Instead, I memorized an 800 digit number in an hour. Still impressive but short of my goal. With that disclosure out there here is the interview…

By the way, if you like the video it would help me out if you CLICK LIKE…the more people that CLICK LIKE the higher it gets in the ratings. Thanks in advance

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 Tags: australia keynote speaker, Australia memory speaker, improve your memory, Kirsty Dunphey, memory in a month, memory speaker, memory training, tasmania speaker
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Memory Speaker for your Next Conference

Are you looking for a memory speaker?

Why not book 2 Time USA Memory Champion and memory expert Ron White as your memory speaker?! He shares with you what you could expect in his talk:

Okay, you are looking for a memory speaker. This is what you can expect – Before the meeting begins (or before he speaking time at a break) I will mingle with the group and memorize up to 250 names in the audience! Yes, you read that right! 250 NAMES.

Then when I get on the stage I will have the people I met stand up. I will then walk around and one by one call off each of their names as they sit down. It will look like dominos falling! I may not get 100% correct but I promise you this…I will do really really really good ☺ I typically get between 95-100% of the audience names correct.

At this point, everyone should be on the edge of their seat thinking,’ Wow, I have never seen anything like that!’ I will then talk about the value of remembering names in business and how Zig Ziglar says, ‘People don’t care how much you know until they first know how much you care.’ I will give some memory tips that everyone can start using right away to improve their retention on names today, tomorrow or in six months.

Next, I will then have the group call out numbers. I will call on 25 people at random and have each person give me a 2 digit number. The group will create a 50 digit number that I will never see and only hear. Then I will repeat the 50 digit number forwards and backwards. I will guess that 100% of your group has never seen anything like that before in person!!

Hopefully, these two memory demonstrations will have entertained, inspired and motivated your group. After I most certainly have their attention the remainder of the class time will be spent teaching the group how they can use the same system that I use (yes I will teach them the EXACT system I use) to:

- Memorize chapters of books
- Give speeches without notes
- Recall product knowledge
- Memorize names and faces
- Improve test taking and grades
- Learn anything new in 1/3 the time
- Become a product knowledge expert over night!

I have been a memory speaker since 1991, frankly I can’t believe it myself that it has been this long. Yet, I stuck with this career because I found a knack for it, plus I am good at it. I promise to give your group a memory training talk that they will NEVER forget!

If you are really considering booking a memory speaker, then I most certainly hope you give me and my memory talk some thought. Visit my link where I appeared on the History Channel’s Show Stan Lee’s Superhumans and get a taste for the amazing memory demonstrations that you are going to see!

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Tags: memory expert, memory guy, memory man, memory speaker, memory specialist, memory trainer, memory training, ron white
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The Hardest Part of the Memory Guy’s Job

What it is hardest part of the memory guys job?

Memorizing stuff? Nah….that is fun and over 20 years I have just gotten faster and better.

Being a two time USA Memory Champion? Well….yeah…that was pretty tough

Speaking in front of a group? Nope…enjoy that as well. I am more comfortable in front of 3,000 than I am 3. (seriously)

Getting speaking engagements/business? Well….that isn’t an easy thing to do in any business but luckily for me I have stuck in the same career for 20 years and have tons and tons of contacts and repeat business.

The toughest part of my job is convincing people that I don’t have a natural ability to memorize names or numbers. When they see things like I did here on the CBS Early show (below). They think…’WOW! This guy must have been memorizing French when he was 4 and playing the piano by 5.’ Not even close. I was a very normal student growing up.

So what do I attribute my ability to? I won’t suggest to you that I was a bad student or dumb student but I also don’t think I have some special memory aibility that the average person doesn’t have. Frankly, I have close friends who have better memories than me. They remind me, ‘Remember this person from high school?’ I think…’Nope.’

I put it this way – Do you think you could learn to speak a foreign language fluently if you practiced it every day at least 20 minutes for a year? I think most people would agree that they could. There may be a case where some pick it up easier than others but for the most part a person who practices 20 minutes per day for a year could get very very very good. That is all I have done. I have become fluent in the language of memory.

But getting back to it – Do I have some special ability? No, I don’t think I do. Yet, if I am to compromise a little with the people who suggest that my ability is the result of a natural memory and not memory training I would bend a little and say that if I have a special ability it is my work ethic. When I find a project (such as memory training) to work on my mind really wraps around it and it is hard to shake me off that focus.

So, my answer is that if there is some special ability it isn’t my memory it lies in the fact that I worked at developing my memory so diligently with good old memory training techniques. I do believe ANYONE can improve their memory….anyone.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Tags: how to remember, improve memory, improve your memory, memorize a poem, memory expert, memory guy, memory man, memory training, memory training website, ron white, usa memory champion
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Review of Memory in a Month – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Okay, now how often is it that someone writes a review of their OWN product and tells you the good, the bad and the ugly

Well, this is Ron White memory guy and I am going to write a very honest and candid review of my Memory in a Month program. Every word below I believe to be 100% the truth and yes, I realize I make my living selling this product but her are my candid thoughts I would tell my best friend if we were having dinner.

The good - First of all, I believe that Memory in a Month is the best memory training product on the market. I really believe that. I know one memory guy who says that he has some secret memory techniques that he uses and he doesn’t tell anyone. Really? Are you serious? You have some SECRET memory techniques that only you use? First of all, I don’t believe him. Secondly, if I did – how selfish is that of him? His goal is not to educate and help others but hold the best stuff back so no one has a better memory than him. In my Memory in a Month program I hold nothing back.

Next, I believe it is the best product out there because of the format. So many people get a CD set of any kind and they don’t know where to start. They are overwhelmed. Memory in a Month is divided into 30 sections to be done 10 minutes a day for 30 consecutive days (hence Memory in a MONTH). This format makes it easy for the student to complete an exercise a day and go on about his day. With that said, I have had students complete it in 2 DAYS!

Another positive quality of the product is that it starts of slow and very basic. This allows the user to ease into the memory program and build confidence as they progress instead of tackling a big memory goal off the bat and getting frustrated and quitting.

I created this CD album when I was 25 YEARS OLD! I can barely believe that myself. I remember sitting in a friends spare bedroom where I was staying because I didn’t have enough money to afford a place of my own and typing Memory in a Month on an old PC computer. WOW! I never imagined in 1998 that this product would eventually be sold all over the world. I really took the time to make sure each lesson was well thought and and prepared so that the average listener could benefit. My goal back then was not profit, my goal was to teach this system in an easy format to understand and I believe that I did that.

Finally, I believe it is the best memory training product on the market because it really covers all the bases of memory training from names, numbers, speeches, students, business people, math formulas, memory games, poems, scripture, foreign languages, memorizing chapters of a book, giving speeches without notes and more. It is very comprehensive and the best program on how to improve memory.

The bad - what would I do different if I had it to do over again. In fairness, in 1998 I didn’t know as much about memory training as I do now. If I was doing it over I would include lessons on CHARACTER-ACTION-OBJECT. This memory method that I learned in 2008 is POWERFUL for memorizing numbers 6 digits at a TIME! With the current method taught in Memory in a Month I think the listener would most likely only perfect 2 digits at a time.

I also didn’t include much about health in Memory in a Month because let’s face it. I was 25 years old and in great shape and just assumed I always would be and didn’t focus on it too much. Now, as I approach 40 – I see the value of good nutrition and exercise and I would have included more about this such as foods to eat and foods to avoid.

I think it would be fun in Memory in a Month to have a section on how to memorize a deck of cards and at the time I didn’t know how to do that either. (In 2009 I set the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards at the USA Memory Championship)

The ugly - There are a few mistakes in Memory in a Month. One is when I teach how to memorize the Bill of Rights. The 9th Amendment to the constitution in the Bill of Rights says, ‘The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.’ I had no idea what that meant and guessed it referred to amendments that come after #9 and it doesn’t. So my explanation of what that amendment means is wrong. The other error in Memory in a Month is when I teach SIN and COSINE and how to memorize these formulas. I goofed up and switched them in the program. But as far as I know these are the only 2 errors and the ugly in this program

Will one day I go back and make the improvements I have listed above? I believe I will. I think one day a new version is on the horizon. With that said, I still believe this product is without question the best memory training CD set on the market and I have no reservation or hesitation recommending it to anyone to purchase and use whether they are a student or a business professional.

Get your copy of Memory in a Month here.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Tags: how to give speeches without notes, how to memorize, how to memorize numbers, how to memorize playing cards, how to memorize poems, improve your memory, memorize a speech, memory expert, memory in a month, memory skills, memory techniques, memory training, ron white memory, usa memory champion
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What I learned from being the USA Memory Champion

Two time USA Memory Champion and memory training expert Ron White memory guy shares what it was like being the USA Memory Champion and what he learned from the experience:

I have done a few things in my life that I am very proud of and just as many that I am not so proud of. The things I am not proud of, I don’t make excuses for but instead make an effort to learn from and became the man I want to be in the future. The things that I am proud of are often a result of previous failures or mistakes that I learned from in the past. Good or bad there is always a lesson to be learned from life experiences.

My time as the USA Memory Champion from 2009 to 2011 was such an incredible learning time for me. I first intended to compete in the USA Memory Championship in 2007 – yet I was also a member of the US Navy and instead I was deployed to Afghanistan that year. In Kabul I would practice for the 2008 USA Memory Championship in my free time. Yet, looking back it was really unstructured training and I had no clue what the tournament was actually like. So my training was not adequate. 8 weeks after returning from Afghanistan I competed in the USA Memory Championship and came in 4th place. It was a good feeling but even more importantly I realized how close I had come to winning it and winning it became my goal.

In the time from March 2008 and March 2009 I hired a former US Navy SEAL, TC Cummings to coach me to become focused, disciplined and organized. I consulted with former USA Memory Champion David Thomas on strategy and researched articles written by another former USA Memory Champion Joshua Foer (who ended up writing a highly acclaimed book on the tournament, ‘Moonwalking with Einstein). In 2009 I was incredibly well prepared and seemed to almost coast to victory. When I walked in the room I KNEW the tournament was mine…I saw the trophy and knew within hours it would be mine.

In 2010, my times were better and I had become a better Brain Athlete in the year prior. Yet troubles in my relationship and personal life distracted me the month before the tournament and resulted in me not sleeping the night before the tournament. In 2010, I walked into a mental tournament with some VERY VERY VERY smart people and on 30-45 minutes sleep hung on to win the tournament. Perhaps I am more proud of the win in 2010 than I am in 2009 for several reasons. Including the first 3 lessons listed here :

1. I didn’t have to compete again. Some will win the tournament and then not compete again so they can remain ‘undefeated’. Some who are looking to cash in on the victory believe it will hurt their chances of doing so if they lose. I on the other hand never competed for the glory – I competed for the challenge. So not defending my title was never an option. I am proud of myself for defending it. (As Chester Santos and Ram Kolli did)

2. In the months before the tournament I was sick (fever and throwing up) and my coach TC Cummings suggested I train despite the sickness. WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY?! Memorize cards between trips to the restroom throwing up!? But TC reminded me, what if you are sick the day of the tournament – this is perfect training for that. Turns out I wasn’t sick the day of the tournament but having trained while very ill was perfect training for competing on 45 minutes sleep. The lesson I learned in 2010 was train even when you don’t feel like it because when your ultimate challenge comes there is no guarantee that conditions are going to be perfect. I am proud of myself for being prepared for a competition with only 45 minutes sleep.

3. The devil is in the details!! Two weeks before the 2010 USA Memory Championship I posted something on my Facebook page. All it said was, ‘The devil is in the details.’ For me I was referencing the USA Memory Championship. In my mind it would all come down to the details. The smallest of matters. Every single detail of the tournament I had researched. I knew exactly how long it would take me to walk from my hotel to the event (yes I timed it with a stop watch), I knew the details of every single tournament (even the smallest of details). I had a gut feeling it would come down to details….and it did. In 2010, there were 3 left in the final round – myself, Nelson Dellis and Ram Kolli. Nelson was eliminated on the first card – not because of a memory challenge but details. He wasn’t aware of the rule that in the final event we start with the top card instead of the bottom. He was my toughest competitor and he eliminated himself because of a detail. I won that year. Lesson learned – the devil is in the details.

4. In 2011 I did not win. I was defeated by a very well prepared Nelson Dellis. Yet, in defeat I learned many lessons. The first being one that I knew but had forgotten. To my friends, family, coworkers and clients I was still a champion. The memory feats I have trained myself to do are still very impressive for them and in reality I wasn’t getting hired to speak because I was the USA Memory Champion. If that were the case the World Memory Champions would have more speaking engagements than me (they don’t). I am hired to speak not because of a titled but because of what I can teach others to do. While others may be impressed with the title, what they will pay you for is if you can teach them. Because of the success of Joshua Foer with his book ‘Moonwalking With Einstein’ many see the USA Memory Championship as a ticket to riches and fame. It is neither. The initial burst of PR after the tournament is nice – I learned to enjoy it, use it for marketing purposes but never let it define me.

5. Never allow yourself to be defined by a single day – good or bad. Instead, be defined by who you were in the time leading up to that day. In the weeks before the 2009 tournament I became very stressed and asked my coach TC Cummings, ‘What if I don’t win? What if I come in second and spent all this time training?’ He then reminded me the story of Rudy. The Notre Dame football player in the 1970 who never made the starting team but won the hearts of everyone with his dedication to that goal. He reminded me that the ultimate goal is not winning a starting spot on the team but who you must become in the process of competing. He reminded me that I, like Rudy, had busted my butt and in essence already won. That is how I would allow myself to be defined – not by the results of a single day. This was also a lesson I reminded myself of in 2011 after my second place finish.

So there you have it. Being Ron White memory guy is fun but being Ron White 2 Time USA Memory Champion was not only fun it brought many life lessons and these were just a few I thought I would share. I encourage you to find something to push yourself (maybe even the USA Memory Championship) not because you will take #1 but because of the person you must become in the process of competing.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 Tags: joshua foer, memory expert, memory speaker, memory techniques, memory training, ron white, ron white memory, usa memory champion, usa memory championship, world memory championship
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Bangkok Memory Training Seminar

Two time USA Memory Champion and memory training expert Ron White shares his travels through Asia teaching memory training seminars:

I just completed a memory training seminar in Bangkok that my friend Amin Rais hosted. Amin and I have been working together since 2008. He has brought me to Bangkok for 4 memory seminars in that time and a few in Malaysia. It is nice to be Ron White Memory Expert in the USA but it is even more fun to travel as the memory expert.

The first event he hired me to speak at in 2008 he really packed the house with 500 people. If you think it is hard to memorize 100 names in 30 minutes try doing it in Thailand! Ha!

Above is Amin and I with his wife in a taxi in Malaysia a few years ago. This year, the number of people wasn’t near 500 but it was a fun and successful memory training seminar. We had a room full of eager learners with names like

Ashesh (I visualized ashes), Roonpecht (I visualized a ‘wrong pet’) and Suweddi (I visualized sewing a wedding dress). During the seminar I played a video of a 6 year old little girl using my memory system to memorize the presidents of the USA. It really is the cutest video on the planet of the cutest 6 year old on the planet (I am biased…she isn’t mine but I couldn’t love her more if she was).

After I played the video I said, ‘If you have children and you don’t get my memory training CDs for your children your kids need to be taken away from you and given to someone who loves them!’ Everyone laughed and then I got serious for a minute and said, ‘You know why I taught Kailey that memory method? Because I love her….’ Of course I followed it up with, ‘….and if you don’t love your kids that is okay don’t get my memory training CDs.’ Ha! Luckily they saw it as funny too and even luckier they did buy the CDs!

After the seminar I got out of my suit as soon as possible and relaxed and went shopping for some folks back home. I had been given the mission of purchasing a Bento box (don’t worry I didn’t know what it was either), only to find out after hours of searching it is a Japanese tray and I was in Thailand. No Bento box was found

Now I head to Malaysia where once again I will be introduce as Ron White memory expert and will teach a 90 minute memory training class. The exciting thing for me is that one of the other speakers at the event is Lou Ferrigno, the Incredible Hulk!

Hope your week is going well in whatever part of the world you are in and DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER!!!

Friday, May 27th, 2011 Tags: amin rais, asia memory seminar, asia memory speaker, bangkok memory expert, bangkok sales seminar, how to improve memory, improve your memory, malaysia memory seminar, memory expert, memory seminar bangkok, memory techniques, memory training, national memory, ron white memory, thailand memory champion, usa memory champion
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Ron White Meet INcredible Hulk

Two time USA Memory Champion and memory expert Ron White shares his journey from Moscow to speaking with the Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno, in Singapore and Malaysia.

When I was asked to speak in Singapore a few months ago I had no idea what an incredible adventure it would be! It was an adventure for many reasons. First of all the speech in Singapore was Sunday May 22 and I had a speech in New Orleans on Friday May 20th. This means after my speech ended I headed straight to the airport and was on my way to Singapore via Moscow! How interesting it was to land at the airport in Moscow. In the last few years, I have been to Japan (the country my grandfather battled in WWII in the Pacific) and no Moscow the country my father stood against in the Army in Korea (indirectly as the Soviets were backing N Korea). Isn’t it amazing how time heals wounds?

My layover in Moscow was about 2 hours and I walked around but in reality an airport is an airport and you don’t get much of a feel for the country. Back on the airplane for me and the memory guy was off to Singapore now. 24 hours after I left New Orleans I landed in Singapore and a few hours after that I was standing on the stage in front of 1500 ready to teach my memory training seminar.

I had not slept in 24 hours but I really poured my heart into a 90 minute talk on the power of a trained memory and how to use memory techniques to improve grades, memorize names, recall poems or anything else. I memorized a 50 digit number live on stage with no sleep and was cruising along. Then the moment of truth arose….do I sell a product package for $500? or go for the biggest product package sale of my life and sell a 2 day seminar for $2,000 per person? In this decision that I am sure will shape all future speeches I give, I sold a $2,000 per person 2 day seminar and then walked off stage not knowing what to expect……

In a 15 minute period that confirmed the value my memory training brings a line longer than I ever imagined formed to enroll in my 2 day event. The value for this training is there. The value of this memory training is $2,000 per person and I am going to hit a HOME RUN in delivering the event to these lucky folks.

As if it wasn’t enough to hit a home run with a great speech and then sell out on my 2 day seminar at $2,000 per person I got to meet the speaker who followed me. Who would that be you ask? LOU FERRIGNO THE INCREDIBLE HULK!! Now how cool is that!? Someone I grew up watching on television was now standing beside me about to go on the stage I just left. To make the story even more interesting, The Incredible Hulk was created by Stan Lee and Stan Lee is the host of the new show I am on called ‘Superhumans’. So in essence two of Stan Lee’s creations were meeting for the first time in Singapore!

Today I am in Bangkok preparing for my talk here and then I head to Malaysia to share the stage with The Incredible Hulk once again in a few days. This has been an incredible trip in terms of the travel and getting to see Moscow (even if just the airport). It was incredible because of delivering a great speech on no sleep, raising my level of belief in my memory training product package and of course meeting THE INCREDIBLE HULK!!! What an awesome experience!!!!

Monday, May 23rd, 2011 Tags: how to improve memory, improve memory, improving memory, incredible hulk, keynote speakers, lou ferrigno, memory expert, memory techniques, memory training, national achievers congress malaysia, national achievers congress singapore, ron white, ron white memory, stan lee superhumans
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Memory Training in Africa

Two Time USA Memory Champion and memory training expert Ron White shares his account of his memory training tour through Africa:

I was set to deliver 8 memory training talks in 4 countries over a period of 12 days and I was determined to make it a positive trip and…oh wow! Has it ever been positive!

My first talk was in Kenya where I was greeted by my friendly host Hasit. He had arranged for me to speak for students in the day and then teach memory training that night to his organization. At the event there were 80 people and 75 had Indian names I had never heard! Much to my own surprise I was able to flawlessly recall all 80 names! (Examples : Darsham, Rajesh, Kalpesh, Minesha)

Next up was Zimbabwe and I had a heck of a time getting through customs. When they heard I was speaking for YPO they asked what that was and I said, ‘Young Presidents Organization’. This sent a panic through the customs agents as that sounded like a political organization and with the tension in Egypt and Libya they didn’t want anything political. Much to my delight Kalpesh (from the Kenya event) was on the same flight and he came to the rescue and explained my situation. The event in Zimbabwe was a pleasure with about 80 people all there to learn how to improve memory. The ‘old’ currency in Zimbabwe was hit with TREMENDOUS inflation and I purchased an ‘old’ 100 Trillion dollar note for $4!!! I actually left Zimbabwe with over 300 Trillion dollars! In old Zimbabwe currency that is…but it is nice ‘kinda’ being a Trillionaire

In Cape Town (my 3rd stop) I woke up to see the beautiful Table Mountain outside my window and also a HUGE Lego statue!

We had a great event in Cape Town where I taught my memory training seminar for a group of about 50 students and amazed them as much as I could as a ‘ memory expert ‘. After the students it was on to 200 of the world’s top business leaders and when I say that I don’t mean casually…I mean very successful men and women.

My next stop was a place I had never heard of in my LIFE before I arrived. A small island nation called Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a 4 hour flight from South Africa as you pass over Madagascar…and all I can say is WOW!! Sure I came here to teach a memory training seminar but memory training has been the furthermost thing from my mind since I arrived. WOW! I am staying at a resort called ’20 Degrees South’ (The Latitude line here) and it is magical!

Almost reluctantly I taken from my hotel to the event I was asked to speak at as a memory expert and conduct my seminar on how to improve your memory. The event was held at what residents of Mauritius refer to as a ‘castle’ I think in the USA it would be more of a plantation home or a mansion. Regardless, it was INCREDIBLE! It was constructed over 300 years ago by a Russian man and it is still in his family today. Yet, today the family has turned it into a place open to the public for tours and events. Incredible home!

Now, I am still enjoying 2 more days of beautiful Mauritius before I head to Johannesburg (or Jo-Berg) as they call it to teach my final memory training seminar of this Africa trip and then I head home! I will get to spend 40 hours at home in the month of April and it will be next weekend and then off to teach memory training seminars in Indonesia, Bangkok, Malaysia and Singapore. But for now, I am going to enjoy Mauritius and try not to think too far ahead….don’t want to miss too much of this beautiful ‘hidden’ island….

Sunday, April 10th, 2011 Tags: EO speaker, how to improve memory, improve your memory, kenya, mauritius, memory expert, memory system, memory techniques, memory training, ron white, ypo, ypo education chair, zimbabwe
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