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Memory Techniques for Public Speaking 4.Speech Memorization Techniques
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Now that your speech is ready, you can begin to memorize it. The secret of making a good speech is not to remember the entire speech word for word, but the main keywords of your speech. Here are the steps for an effective memorization. Write an outline, including all main points of the speech. Use the structure from your mind map to plan your talk on paper. Draw a series of five large sections down the center of the page.

Each section represents an element of the talk. The first section will be the introduction and the comments that you will use to get the attention and to set the stage. The second, third and fourth section will be the key points that you intend to make. If you are given a longer talk, you can use more sections for the key points, and even use another page if necessary. The last section will With a wrap up and close tip. memorizing the introduction can be a good idea because knowing precisely what to say at the beginning of a speech can help calm you down and ease you into the setting.

Memorizing the conclusion is also helpful because it prevents you from accidentally falling into a concluding loop, in which you continually repeat information as you're trying to close. If for any reason your speech length is cut back because of changes in the schedule, at least you know how to end your talk you're going effective way. Second, split the speech into chunks, divide the speech into short manageable chunks that are between two and three sentences long. Three, use trigger words. The value of trigger words is that they become a shorthand way to recall a whole section of the speech. So when you go through your sections of your speech, you have read and under Line searching words and selecting them to be the triggers.

Once you are familiar with a speech throughout rehearsal and review, you can focus on remembering only deals triggers, you need to have them in a sequence, not just recall them. So you must use a technique for learning this words in order. Then, when you think of this words in that sequence, they will call up each section of the story. Now, you can begin to apply the memory techniques. For prepare a mental journey with specific storage locations in your memory palace or along your route, you will apply a memory technique called the loci method or the location method. The idea is to create a path in your mind made up of places that you know well and can easily visualize.

And then populate these places with images representing whatever you want to remember. You can select these places, either in your imagination or by actually taking a walk to see them Just pick up places that form a logical path as you walk around from start to finish. One of the ways of doing this is to write down all the landmarks that you can recall in order on a piece of paper. Fifth, form a picture of each chunk and then put it in a specific storage location along the journey. Key Points are translated into key images and placed along the simple journey. Create a mental image for each part.

The more absurd and unique the images, the easier it will be to recall it later. In your speech, you need to weave the mental images together. The easiest way to do this is to visualize yourself traveling along various locations of serving the pictures in order. Here you can use the link memory method six, improving the speech in your long term memory with a repeat and rehearse techniques. In the next movies, I will present you in detail each of these memory techniques

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