If you have been watching the National Geographic show Brain Games you might have seen me on

there and one of the demonstrations I did for the show is to memorize a deck of cards

and I want to show you how I memorized that deck of cards in the National Geographic Channel.

I used the tool called CHARACTER - ACTION -OBJECT and what that means is that for every

playing card have a person, a character might be a cartoon character or a real life person,

have a character, an action a verb and an object a noun. So character, action, object

for every single card. Let me go through three cards here and give examples. Jack of Clubs,

Jack looks like a person that reminds you of the Jack of clubs. I used Johnny Cash because

J and then clubs close to the C, JC. So I got Johnny Cash is the person or the character

for the Jack of Clubs. Now I have to think of an action that goes with Johnny Cash. I

think of that song, I fell into a burning ring of fire. So I think of that song for

Johnny Cash. So the person is Johnny Cash, the verb is igniting as if you are igniting

fire and the object is fire. Character, action, object, Johnny Cash igniting fire. My next

card Queen of Hearts, I had to think of a person or a character that goes with the Queen

of Hearts and I think of my mom. What could a verb for a mom be? Cooking. She loves to

cook and what could the object be, the stove. Mom, cooking at the stove is the person, action,

object and then finally the 3 of Diamonds, 3D. What is a good 3D movie? Spiderman. Spiderman

becomes a character, the action becomes climbing the building and the object is building. Spiderman,

climbing and building. So then you have your mom cooking at the stove, we have Johnny Cash

igniting the fire and you have Spiderman climbing the building. So basically I have a character,

action, object for all 52 cards. I memorize cards in groups of three. So let us say these

cards get played. This is the first card, Queen of Hearts. The person for it is my mom.

The next card to get played is the Jack of Clubs. Well the person for this is Johnny

Cash, but since it is #2 in the sequence, we take the #2 in the character, action, object

sequence. So #2 for this card igniting. So right now we have a mom igniting and when

the last card gets played, the 3 of Diamonds that is Spiderman, it is Spiderman climbing

a building, but since this is the third card in the sequence, we use the object, which

is building. So we have character, action, object, a mom igniting a building. So let

us say the cards were placed in this order and it was a 3 of Diamonds, the Queen of Hearts

and the Jack of Clubs. We will still do character, action, object. The character in that case

would be Spiderman, the action would be cooking and the object would be the fire. Let's say

they are played in this order. That's Johnny Cash climbing on a stove. So that's what you

do. So if you want more training on this in the description below, I have a much longer

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to my videos here. But the bottom line is you use character, action, object and then

what I will do is I will take this picture of Johnny Cash climbing a stove and I would

visualize that on the first piece of furniture on my house. Then the next three cards get

played, I do the character, action, object for that. I visualize that on the second piece

of furniture in my house. So Johnny Cash climbing the stove on the first piece of furniture.

Then when I want to repeat the deck of cards, I simply go back, think of my house and I

talk about what I see on each piece of furniture. Enter your email address at link below for

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