How To Instantly Memorize Any 10-Item List (w/Joe Diamond)
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2022
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This video made by:
Brian Brushwood
Brandt Hughes
Bryce Castillo
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Edited by Heather Tayte - Jak na to + styl
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I was so certain that was your secret ESP antenna
@@alliedatheistalliance6776 possibly 😂
HOW DID YOU DO IT??
@@JoeDiamondLive WEAK MATERIAL
@@JoeDiamondLive PLEASE IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE
I'll never forget the old scam school. I say this, because after "Are we gonna learn this?" I immediately 'heard' Brian say "First, let's toast to our sponsor."
That is incredible. I had the entire list memorized after he gave the stories for them. The rhymes sticked immediately. I wonder if I can use this in every day life. Thank you so much for this. (From memory: Sand, oil, mint, commit, vase, base, tiger, worm, penny, opossum. Unbelievable. I'm infamous among my friends for my terrible memory.
No use for long term memory. Peg List reuse wipes the previous event.
For most people the ONLY way it works is if you use it often. Otherwise you'd be like Brian, "I saw this 10 years ago but..." Luckily, it's easy to re-learn, too!
It's funny how counterintuitive this trick is. 'You can remember these things better by adding a whole new bunch of stuff to remember'. But it really works.
I use it in my everyday life all the time!
@@waynerussell6401 You can use the same phenomena for long term memory though. If you associate more vivid/funny/emotional images/stories/events together, you can remember them much more easily. I remember in high school only remembering the history on the same pages as pictures in my textbooks. I remembered the pictures and could then recall information nearby. Everything else, a wash.
The way the mind reading works is: When he initially grabs the paper from her he puts some distance in between him and the paper saying "Look I can't see through it" and giving the impression that he's keeping his distance. Next he asks about her zodiac sign. She's caught off guard because it's a seemingly random question and takes a brief second to look up to the left as we often do when sifting through our memory, during this scene the camera is zoomed in on her but this is when he has the opportunity to switch the paper with another piece of paper. The reason he's using business cards is because they're all the same so it wouldn't cause immediate suspicion if the card was folded slightly different. The reason he has her write her zodiac sign on the outside and then says "So you can tell it's yours without the need to open it" that's because at this point in time the paper has already been switched, if she were to open it, then it would be blank.
With some sleight of hand, he now has hers in his palm, and she believes she still has her original piece of paper. As he's saying "Without us having to see what you've written" he is mimicking the action of someone opening a piece of paper creating the illusion that he's simply using body language to convey his message, but it's at the moment in time that he is actually reading her piece of paper that's been in his hand. Just like earlier this part is hard to analyze because the camera zooms in on her.
How does he get it back into her hand for the reveal? Something happened in the cut at 12:03. He must have switched it during that cut. Probably did some more handling of the paper and swapped it back. If you look at the jump cut between 12:03 and 12:05, the pen on the table is moved so anything could have happened during this time.
Then with a bit more flare and theatrics he finishes the trick off. It's all clever and I'm sure anyone would be easily deceived in person because he's a professional, it's also hard to analyze the moment things happen on here because they used some well timed camera zooms to keep those moments out of the video.
How did he return the card to her hand in the reveal?
@@rus.t I have edited my original comment to answer your question. On a side note as I'm analyzing this again, I wouldn't doubt if the guy took the position of the sun into account and purposely had them sit on that side of the table so it's harder for them to see. I know that part sounds a bit out there, but to sell a trick like this you really want to utilize any advantage you can.
I don't think there is a second card. He's the one that folds the card and there is stuff written on it that forces her to write the name in the right bottom corner. And since he folded it he knows (if he holds open side facing him eg the fold is away from him and to the left) the name is at the bottom 'page' and just has a peak at 11:46 and because he's been already been folding the paper multiple times beforehand and she's busy thinking of her star sign, nobody notices. I guess an easy way to peak is (as the name is written in right bottom corner) you make a thumb break in the bottom fold as you pretend to straighten the whole pack (so you just have 3 corners between your index finger and thumb, while your thumb opens up the 4th (which will have the name).
I remember they did this years ago and Brian said Florence nightingale
wow! now THAT's impressive!
classic. jim Carrey's left shoe
@@scamschool Remember how you did it?
If you're referring to the memory trick, here it is:
czcams.com/video/f5MVEXbBji4/video.html
But where is the reveal of the 2nd trick?
@@Finnec123
Thank you so much for sharing the video! I've been (lazily) looking for it on and off for months
For everyone wondering how Joe read Hannah's mind, Brian already gave away the answer in this episode: "It's not even a trick. It's a skill he has!"
😊🔮
6:01 The look Brian does when hearing mint grows on a tree. Lol
Can’t find the video, can you give more details or the link? Thanks
I cant find it either :(
@@alainischileno It's.... **this** video.
When this trick was first done, 6 was tricks like magic tricks, you could imagine the object coming out of a hat.
Nice idea
The last trick just reminded me that Joe isn't allowed at Josie's halloween parties because of his magic. If he peeked, I didn't see any moment when it could have happened.
😂 thank you!
There is also a method called "Journey Method" where you can put items in a particular place known to you for example :
sand in your bedroom, oil in your kitchen, mint plant in your garden and so on, and then you can create a story in your head while you are doing that, for e.g you just came from beach with sand in your shoes and entered in your bedroom first(you can picture sand on your bedroom floor), then you went to your kitchen to prepare chicken or anything with oil and then you went to your garden to pick mint leaves to prepare a mint sauce and so on and this way you can remember the list and it would work even for more than 10 items as long as you have enough places you know you can travel in your mind.
it's well know as the memory palace. takes longer to perfect though
This method is really cool and different from the one I learned which is more based in sequential memorising. The technique I learned was that you create an image between the two consecutive entries on the list. So for sand and oil, I would have thought of an oil spill on a beach, but if you asked me what they were out of order, I would struggle. Having all these images ready to connect to numbers makes it seem so much more impressive!
I use the anchoring principle from one of Harry Lorayne's books to memorize names of people (students, mostly) so that I have their names down cold by the end of the second class meeting.
I once had a teacher with a bad memory. He took a picture of the whole class and spend time at home memorizing our names. That was before smartphones were invented (yes, the wheel and the smartphone were invented by the same guy.)
@@Finnec123 I Know the Harry Lorayne list from years ago..Tea, Noah, May Ray Law Jaw Key Fee Bay Toes...Tot Tin Tam Tar, Tally, Taj Mahal, Tack Taffy, Tub, Nose. That gets you to twenty items just for fun. Note how from 11 to 20 the same letters are used for the final letters. (Tea...Tot,(t) Noah...Tin(n), May Tam (m) etc.
Brian learning this ten years ago was one of my very first Scam School videos
Yeah
Always love watching when Joe is here
Thank you 😊
That last trick definitely was impressive. I still have much to learn...
Not really
@@younesmohssen8158 Great. Awesome answer. Thanks for taking the time to write such an elaborate and comprehensive reply. My life is all the richer for it.
@@EelcoPeterzen hahahaha I was just messing with you don’t worry. If you want to learn it I’d suggest buying books like ‘practical mental effects’ by Annemann. If I remember correctly, in the first few effects there’s a method to do the same kind of effect as the final trick shown in the video, minus the ‘I feel it’ when Joe puts his hands near hers. The method used in the book is not exactly the same method used here but they both rely on the same principle
@@younesmohssen8158 thank you. I'll definitely look It up!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Reminds me of the old Kevin Trudeau Mega Memory infomercials from the 80s/90s that was made to look like a Letterman-style late night show interview. He used a 20-item peg list, which I've totally forgotten now. 😂
*40 seconds in* "Did he just watch that Scam School episode from almost a decade ago and decide he couldn't do 11-20?" *4 minutes in* "Yes, yes he did." Also, he wrote base and I was expecting a fort made out of sticks and then he was talking about turning up the bass...
But in all seriousness, that mind reading if not staged was one of the sickest tricks I've seen on the channel ^_^
Edit: For anyone who wants to be able to do 20 things, it's called "The Simple Trick to Become a Memory GENIUS!" Scam School episode 265 from April 10, 2013.
It is not staged 😊 I do that exact routine in my professional work all the time 😊
A dog driving with glasses while you wearing shoes instead of glasses. You have typewriters on your feet while cutting them with a knife. Anyone remember that.
I remember learning this on scam school, so it was fun to play along with joe
Agreed did the same!
Awesome! Thank you 😊
Wow! I'm glad Brian remembers doing this before, because I do too (I'll tell you why) and have been looking for (and failing to find) the Scam School episode where he did this before with someone else, which was legitimately almost 10 years ago. Except he didn't give them a list of things to associate with each number, just told them to think of the first thing that came to mind for each number, which ended up being most of the things on that list.
The reason I remember? Because when he did it, I tried it with most of the numbers from 1-10, picked at random by me and my brother and things I actually wanted to remember at the time (but only needed for like 2 minutes). *And I've been trying to forget those things ever since. They're still in my mind! It plagues me!!*
They're finally fading after almost 10 years since memorizing them, but I'll recite them for you.
1. Hot Cross Buns
2. Marry had a Little Lamb
3. Amazing Grace
(I needed to remember those three things for our group when we went to a different room to practice playing them on recorder. It ended up being unnecessary anyway because someone else remembered them)
4. Convection currents
(Needed to remember that for a science test)
5. The Impossible Game
or
5. Herobrine
(Just random things to test the trick and see if I could put multiple things on a single number)
7. Dark Magician
8. Blue Eyes White Dragon
(Suggested by my brother to test it. We were very into Yu-Gi-Oh)
And nothing for 6, 9, or 10.
So yeah, if you have a weird brain like me, maybe stay away from doing this, lest it plague you with useless things to involuntarily remember for decades.
Thank you for listening to my TedTalk and letting me rant, and unfortunately reinforcing these associations in my brain, making me remember these things for longer.
If anyone shows up and sees this in another decade, ask me if I still remember them lol I'll be honest
Hope you can find the episode sometime!
@@hectorg5809
Thanks! I found a different comment that gave a link to the original video, so luckily I found it :)
Oh wow, I never seen this version before.
This is known as memory palace. It's very useful.
It’s very useful 😊
That's how I remembered it, but in a slightly different way. Very useful indeed.
HOW DID HE KNOW TRULA THO???
Love the look on Brian's face during that bit tho.
Right? He was so freaked.
@@JoeDiamondLive seriously tho... How'd you do that?
My teacher in middle school used this to help us remember our Roman numerals and to this day I remember 4 is IV because poison ivy but that has three leaves. He told me it wouldn't work but hey look at me now I remember one number and the goofy way our brain can remember stuff
I would always use mnemonic devices like that, and at one job I would tell new hires some of the ones I used when I first worked there. For example, we had a phone system that had a different series of buttons to log into them versus logging out of them, and people would often mix up the two. For logging out of the phones, you had to press the "feature" button which was labelled "FEAT", and I would tell people "Just think, when you leave, you use your *feet*! Just ... don't try to think about how you get here." Even though it was ridiculous, I had multiple people tell me that they still think of that example several years later every single time they log out of the phones.
Awesome!
I have absonolutely idea how Mr. Diamond figured out the name of that lady's (forgot her name) sister's name. Seems like real magic. But Brian has a video (I see in another comment) that reveals it.
Will check it out.
Thanks for bringing Josie along. Always a pleasure.
There’s a video that teaches the EARLY technique that inspired that, but not exactly what I did 😊 you’ll have to turn to the old books for that one!
@@JoeDiamondLive
Books, what is that? Oh, those with paper in them. 🙂 That's a neat trick too.
Anyways, thanks!
Ok we need to know how that last trick worked…
Honestly same.
Probably taught 2 or 3 times over the years on this channel.
@@borstenpinsel got a link to a video?
Not a trick, just psychic 🔮👻😂
…. Maybe 🤔
Only the stars know how to answer your question.
Love some good memory stuff! Surely a numeric alphabet for learning large numbers is next. Can do phone numbers at the same speed as this list for long term recall
Oh wow! And you got looong telephone numbers if you're an American! Here in Denmark we only have 8 numbers. 8️⃣📳
But no need to remember them since our phone does it for us. 🤷🏻♂️
My phone does it too but I've found it pretty enjoyable to just learn most of my contacts list, plus it means if my phone is out of battery or any other unexpected situation I'm still covered
@@nivlac945
Great! I would be screwed. 🙂
Can you explain this more and how I can learn please? :)
This is a fun mental exercise
Thank you 😊
Poor Joe Diamond, he makes pretty ladies feel awkward! 😆
(Just viewed the video again.)
It’s my job 😊
Don't put stuff (the list at 06:22) in the video that hides Josie. Her reactions are a big part of the show!
Thanks to Joe Diamond 💎 once again! He's great!
And Brian really cares about his kid! Good for you, Brian!
[How on 🌍 did Joe read Hannah's 🧠? If he did?]
I did 🧠Thank you 😊
I remember this on scam school and i used this trick once with my friends and its so fun. ^_^
Same. And the things have stuck in my head ever since and I hate it lol
It's like you're eating away at their minds like acid eats away at... things ;) . Good stuff.
Just by title I already know what this is rember it from last time
Did you use pen for 10 last time or did I just start using it? Rest of mine are the same
i remember the original episode! wow that was long ago!
Awesome!
Is that a Sharpie? Then change the weather, please! ☁️☀️⛱️
I'd prefer "blade" for eight, since it's visually very strong and gate and door is visually too close together. Just an idea.
Love your videos and podcasts!
Or Plate?
I hate sand
It's coarse
@@heavens.sorrow and rough
And irritating
And it gets everywhere
😂
Hey Joe! I think I figured out the secret behind your second trick. I am wondering if it had to do with something that you did here at 11:46 as you asked her to write down her Zodiac?
Believe whatever scares you the least… 😊
@@JoeDiamondLive It took me over a year, but I finally figured it out.
You're actually psychic! I'm right, aren't I??
I remember this from like 10 years ago back when it was Scamschool. Used to use it to impress people back during school.
Would love to see you incorporate this into Kim’s Game
Once you do this a few times, it gets easier. My sister and I used to do 20 items
Woah what kinda peek was THAT? Briannnnn you have to explain that last trick with the peek
Not a peek, genuinely psychic…. 😂🔮
But really, check out Annemann’s work to learn it
Why are we picturing digging under a gate like a worm, when the gate is covered with maggoty worms?
One mistake, he pointed to the guy when he said vase, but he chose base! Hah!
Penny ↔ Wine is easy, think of TBBT, Penny likes drinking wine
The ol' pk touch, I get, nice performance, but I wonder how he gets the name right. Maybe a force or switch.. nice one to figure out. I guess I have to grab my mentalism books again :)
I don't believe there was a peak
@@TeunVerhoeven correct 😊
Okay but how do I memorize a 10 thing list without joe diamond?
You can’t, you HAVE to take me to all your parties 😂
Nice 😊👍😊👍
Thank you 😊
I feel like the images Joe uses are a little too fill-in-the-gaps to work with a lot more than ten objects. Like that hen could be fighting anything at all. Maybe that’s just me? Still a good trick though!
Trying to come up with something to link to a former memorized list just does not work for me.
I'll stick with writing things down.
It is always great to see Joe Diamond on Scam Nation.
Thank you 😊
🍻
I bet a capricorn has something to do with the last trick. 😉
I just use the Joe Johnson Memory System.
I always did the nick nack paddy wack song
IT WORKED!!!!! :D
😊
@@JoeDiamondLive my brother didnt think it would work, tried to about 6 then saw it did work, then did all 10. I wonder how long it will stick in the mind. I did something like this for the ten general rules - moving my fingers ever so slightly to point at the ground for "take charge of this post", and other things like that - they changed them O_o; now there are 11 and they are slightly different.
Anyway, have you tried the bear on rollerskates or the "think of a tool and a color" (red hammer) for anyone or are those tricks to widely known?
Also, have you appeared on "fool us" and if so , what ep , and if not - when? :D
Lastly, you really got to teach Josie something to fool the bleep out of Brian :D
@@DeconvertedMan I’ve applied for every season of FU but I’ve never been selected 🤷 oh well, SN & MR are more fun anyway 😂
@@JoeDiamondLive aw man! Well, thanks for responding :) keep on keeping on as they say. :)
i believe they thaught the 2nd trick already, im not sure, anyhow i know how it works:
at exeactly 11:46 he fold the bottom flap of the paper down to read it, where he shows her where to write her star sign.
thats why the paper has this weird text on it, so she writes it only on the bottom right of the paper
HEY!! Where’s the teach? You are making me try to dissect it which I love doing anyways. I am going to assume that you didn’t cheat in post production and have video edits, but that is my first opinion. If there was a video cut, I see where you would have swapped out the card. But I didn’t see you having a chance to look at it before getting it back to her. Unless your ring or watch had a camera of some sort. It could be a special video pen. i know they make them. Oooorr.. could Josie have been in on the trick. I don’t think so. Good trick!
None of that is true. Good guesses though. I perform this as is all the time in my professional work, and unfortunately, WAY too complex to teach here…
@@JoeDiamondLive Joe, I must say, I have always liked your magic. You always add such awesome stories to your magic. Thanks so much!
This is just regular memory techniques. The list itself is not even needed if you use a memory palace but the idea he uses is thesame.
absolutely. though the initial list is easy to remember and gives you 10 easy pegs. I first learned using a "body list"
@@scamschool body list is a fantastic addition, thank you!
I have aphantasia and cannot form mental images, so a mental palace is not really a trick that works great for me. But being used to thinking in concepts the rhymes and little stories worked a charme.
I might try incorporating that in a routine at one point. thanks :D
I don’t have a memory palace, in my brain, I have a house of cards… cuz it can collapse at any moment 🧠♦️♠️
@@scamschool The list I use is from Dr. Bruno Furst. His words lend themselves to constructing other words up to 100 items, using the first letter of the 10 key words. They are tea, Noah, May, ray, law, jaw, key, fee, pea, zero. 11 would be tot. 12 would be tan. 22 would be nun. 65 would be jail. etc.
Is this a magic trick or autism? lol I remember similar study techniques from University, (making our own pneumatics/acronym tales) I'm bloody impressed either way, I hope there is a reference to this learning/retention technique on Worlds Greatest Con/season 3 . Shout out to Brushwood, and also Brian lol
Bass*
It’s a test of memory, not spelling 😂🧠
Predicting method of loci. Not going to finish this one though.