A memory sticks much better as an image in your head, and even better as two images, or a poem and an image, or a poem, a song, and an image. The more ways you can create a sticky environment for a memory, the better the memory will stick. Acrostics and Fictional Characters are a […]
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My friend, Dr. Matt Coombe, is memorizing entire books of the Bible. He’s not doing it verbatim, but by using a system of memory that includes acrostics, mnemonics, and a structure of thinking unfamiliar to many of us. I’ve been talking to him about this for weeks, watching him internalize the Gospel of John, and
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For many of us, Scripture memorization is filled with ambitious, hopeful starts and faceplant failures. Can I get an amen?! Even when I’ve managed to memorize entire passages at length, such as when I memorized the Sermon on the Mount or the book of Philippians, the minute I stop practicing is the minute I begin
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