Vishen Lakhiani walks through Jim Kwik's technique for memorizing long numbers by converting digits to letters, then building words as anchors. He maps 9 to P or B, 2 to N, so 92 becomes "bone." A live demo shows how to lock in a 20-digit number using this system.
So I've been talking a lot about this guy Jim Quick lately. He is a memory coach, one of the top teachers on Mindvalley. And I've really learned a lot from him in terms of remembering names, remembering numbers. So what I want to demo here is how to remember a 20 digit number. And so Miguel, who's holding the camera here, is going to read out 20 digits. I'm going to do my best to remember it and you'll kind of get a sense of the technique. Go ahead, Miguel.
Okay, so five, six, that was leech. So I'm going to say the words associated with the numbers 5, 6 would be leech and then cave, that would be C and B, that would be 7, 8 and then lip, 5, 9 and then ma 0, 3 and then knob, 2, 9 and then catch, which would be 76. Did I miss that one? 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 7. Sorry, I got it wrong. 87 and then roll 45, then she's 60 and then bone 92 and then dish 16. Okay, so, so what was going on over there is so, so you got to learn this, right? So every number, every digit has a letter associated to it. For example, 9 is P or B. And so you're stringing these. You, you. It takes a while to learn, it takes about an hour. But then you are attaching mentally a letter to a digit and then you can combine digits together. So for example, 92, the letter for 9 is P or B, the letter for 2 is N. So you would create the word bone. This becomes your lock in word for the word 92. Likewise, some people remember three digit letters and then all you got to do is just string these together really, really, really fast and you can remember long list of numbers. And it's super useful if you're remembering dates. It's a fun party trick. At my peak, I could do like 50 digits backwards and forwards really fast. But. And I can still do it today, but it'll take me about maybe 20 minutes or so to review the list of words and numbers. So these are memory tricks. But the thing is, when you stack all of these different ideas together right by Jim Quick, you find that intelligence isn't fixed, that you can train yourself to do better at work, to do better at your job, better at your career, to get better grades. So I started learning this stuff actually before I met Jim. When I was 14, I picked up a book on how to develop a superpower memory. And at that point before that, I was really failing as a student. And I remember when I was 14, and I scored for nine out of those 11 subjects, the highest grades in my class, because I learned. I could remember a textbook, like paragraph for paragraph, I could remember dates so easily. But the thing is, anybody can learn that. Probably prior to that, I wasn't in any way a gifted student or a top student. And so the idea here is that memory is something that you can grow, that you can change. And if you find these ideas interesting, watch this free video that we put out. It's about 40 minutes long. It's like a mini documentary on Jim Kwik. It's called the Boy with the Broken Brain. And I think you guys are really going to love it. And there's some really powerful lessons there, and it's so going to inspire you. It's completely free. You don't have to sign up. Just click the link in the bio and just watch it like you're watching a Netflix film. So check it out. I think. Going to be really, really exciting. I was so excited to be the narrator in this mini document.
