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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I memorize a poem or section of prose a day, but that’s kind of a lie. While it’s true I do memorize a poem or section of prose a day, it seems like I’m saying I memorize, from start to finish, in only one day. In reality, the process is different than that. But before
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It takes me five to six days to be able to memorize a poem, and about ten days to be comfortable with one. I average a little over a poem memorized a day is by working on ten or more poems at one time. The Method If the poem is long then break the poem
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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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A sleep-deprived morning at a local coffee shop turns into a deep dive into the tension between human ambition, divine mystery, and the artificial constructs of the modern crowd.
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