Hello.
My name is Sébastien Martinez, I am an engineer,
and I became champion of France of memory.
I became champion of France of memory,
with two secrets:
first secret is to know the keys, the techniques.
And second secret is training.
And yet, just yesterday, I arrived in my kitchen,
and there, I did not know why I was in my kitchen.
It has already happened to you.
What did I do ? I turned around,
and there, arriving in my living room, I saw the sofa and I said to myself:
“Yes, it’s orange juice I needed. “
So, I went back to get my orange juice.
You see this memory, this frustration,
you have all experienced it before and it happens at any age.
We will call this memory, memory of goldfish.
What you need to know is that we all have it in us.
However, we all have another memory.
You know, there are always details of our life
who come home and do not want to go out anymore.
I remember very well,
the first time I danced the macarena,
I had a red t-shirt with a troll drawn on it.
I have nothing to do with this information,
and yet, I’m sure she’ll stay in my brain
until the end of my days.
This elephant memory, which is frustrating,
it is that we have the impression not to control it,
to not be able to release it when you really want,
because she is sort of chained.
And what I’m going to share with you is a key that I discovered,
which allowed me to release this elephant when I really want to.
And when I started, when I was a student,
I did not necessarily have an exceptional memory,
I had favorite areas like everyone else,
so, in my case, it was the sciences,
I loved math, physics, it came back alone.
on the other hand, everything that was more by heart,
like French, English, history,
impossible.
And very quickly, I discovered strategies,
and these strategies allowed me to arrive today to transmit them.
Because today, what drives me is really to transmit them,
and I transmit them through conferences,
to trainings, even, to books,
but what is important, if there is one thing to remember,
it’s this key that really changed my life,
this key is imagination.
When I tell you imagination, redefine the term a little.
There are many possibilities :
first possibility, the definition of imagination.
According to the definition of Petit Larousse:
“It’s the faculty we have to represent ourselves in the spirit
a real or unreal object. “
It’s really this faculty
that I will invite you to use together.
And besides, very often, people who tell me:
“How to have memory and general culture? “
In France, we are fond of general culture,
and for example,
let us challenge ourselves to memorize capitals of the countries of the world.
So, there are 100, take Albania, it’s Tirana.
If we ask our imagination, Tirana, me, it makes me think of what?
Phonetically, it reminds me of piranha.
So, I’m going to let you imagine a piranha in your mind.
Do you have this piranha?
And now, we’re going to connect it with what’s next,
that is, Albania.
So Albania, phonetically, there may be the term banish,
to be banished.
So we have this little piranha who is part of a clan,
and he is banished from this clan.
And there, you represent yourself in your mind,
this piranha who is banished.
And let yourself be guided by this imagination
and associate a maximum of meaning.
From the visual, perhaps, there is a tactile sensation,
hot, cold,
imagine sounds.
More this information will come alive in your mind, in your imagination,
and more it will anchor in your memory.
You understood ? We will continue with other very concrete examples.
We will continue on the imagination, on the general culture:
Albania, it’s in Europe, it’s border with Greece,
and you see the form, it can make us think of a carrot,
you see, all in length,
and we will associate this form with a carrot,
and we will add it in our sketch, in our mind, our imagination,
and in our clan, with our [piranhas] who eat a carrot.
Let’s continue this adventure, now other people say to me:
“How to learn vocabulary and learn a language? “
Take something poetic, in Albanian, say, “I love you,”
it is said: “Të dua”.
Of course, I do not speak Albanian,
but, we must remember this translation: therefore, “Të dua”, your fingers.
Me, I imagine my darling,
and I’m caressing him with two fingers on his face.
So “Të dua”, fingers: to say I love you.
Let these images come into your mind,
and it will anchor in your memory.
We will continue with other examples, always in one language,
there, this time, the Chinese
which is a little more complex with the forms.
If you see this form which means a person,
this shape can make you think of a hat, maybe chopsticks
or maybe to legs.
And if you imagine a person’s legs,
always in your mind, once again, it becomes imbued.
Come on, another example in Chinese.
This form reminds me of a window, a ladder
or to a chair,
and if through this window you imagine a sun,
you have the translation: a sun, the day,
and you hold him back.
One last thing that is very frustrating,
and that was very frustrating at home,
it’s remembering the names and faces of people.
Same, we can still use the imaginary,
this key to wake up this elephant.
And if I take this young man named Thomas,
personally, the name Thomas reminds me of a tomato.
You see ?
And on that person’s face, let’s take a detail that drives us,
take for example his beard that comes out, imagine that it is a little rough
and there’s a tomato slipping on that beard.
You have this association, this image that is created.
So, one more last, and after, we will test ourselves together:
Catherine.
Catherine who saw a hair, that falling hair,
and Catherine makes me think of a cat,
you see: “cat”, Catherine a cat,
and we will put in our mind a cat on Catherine’s head.
And when we imagine it, it can make us laugh,
it’s good, we anchor it.
Now, let’s try to revisit this imaginary,
these associations that we have created.
We had on a geography map a shape that looks like a carrot,
which was eaten by Albania.
After, we had this shape,
Public: The people.
SM: The people, very good.
After, we had this young man with a tomato: Thomas.
Tirana which is the capital of Albania.
Public: The sun.
SM: The symbol of the sun. Bravo.
I love you.
Public and SM: Të dua.
Public and SM: And Catherine.
SM: Obviously, a subtlety,
it’s more these associations you will be personal
and you will be clean,
the more powerful they will be and will last in your life.
Tomorrow, when you return to the jungle,
in this zoo of information that is propelled to you,
you have two choices:
be easy and let this red fish wake up,
or else, to wake up this potential, this elephant which is chained,
this elephant memory.
At this point, do not forget to take out your key,
your key to the imagination,
but be careful, because this power a little bit of this elephant memory,
you have to think, it opens a lot of doors.
And all these doors, it’s up to you to choose which ones you will take
and what meaning you will give to your life.
And that sense, I let you imagine it.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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