Memory Training:Day 4

We’re starting to get into the meat and potatoes of this Ron White‘s Memory in a Month system.  This lesson is similar to the previous lesson in that he continues to explain how the mind makes associations between facts and images.  White gives an illustration of a lemon.  While he was instructing the listener to follow a certain course of action, I found myself physically reacting even though  the lemon was imaginary.  I found this quite fascinating!  He uses this illustration to explain that often the mind cannot tell the difference between a real event and an imaginary one.  Guess that explains why horror movies, as fiction and harmless as they are, can scare the crap out of us.

White ends the lesson with an action step.  He only touches on the significance of this step and the listener is left to wonder what does this step have to do with improving one’s memory.  He reassures the listener that it’s okay not to know what’s going on.  If I did, I wouldn’t need the rest of the course.

I haven’t abandoned my Chinese studies, especially with 15 days left in my Chinese challenge.  Everything is progressing.  That’s what matters most to me.