This document provides techniques for memorizing speeches and presentations using visual memory techniques. It recommends breaking speeches down into key points and using the link/chain method to turn those points into vivid mental pictures linked together. Specific techniques include picturing abstract concepts, substituting words for images, and using one's imagination. The document also suggests rehearsing speeches while visualizing the key points in order to effectively memorize and deliver presentations.

1. How to memorize speeches
and presentations
Use proven visual memory techniques to memorize the key points of
your speeches.
Alan Walsh

2. Introduction
• With these steps you can easily learn to memorize the key points
of your speeches in just a few minutes.
• The aim here is to memorize key points, so you can use them as
cues for speaking, rather than memorizing the speech word for
word, which will usually sound over-rehearsed with poor
delivery.

3. Memory techniques
• We are going to use some powerful visual memory techniques.
• These may seem bizarre at first, but give them a chance, they are
incredibly effective!

4. 3 Steps
1. Organise your speech into key points
2. Commit to memory
3. Review and rehearse

5. Organize
• Break your speech down into key points.
• People usually write these on cue cards, but many experienced
speakers still depend on these. The following techniques will enable
you to memorise them.
• Give yourself at least 1 - 1.5 minutes for each major point. If you have
facts or figures to remember then add these as sub-points.

6. Memorize
• Your mind works by association, paint mental pictures of what
you are trying to remember, and it will be quickly committed to
memory.

7. Link/Chain Method
• This is where you turn your words into mental pictures and then use your
imagination to chain them together
• E.g. You are going to deliver a short speech about your hobbies, and you
want to remember the following points: Soccer, Swimming, Travelling
• You could link these together in your head... e.g. start off by imagining a
soccer player kicking a ball into a swimming pool, a man overburdened by
a giant travelling backpack while swimming catches the ball in the pool!

8. Turn anything into pictures
• The previous picture seems very silly, but it's memorable. You can
even remember abstract things using this method:
• For example: The Number 7 - Use rhyming. Seven = Heaven. Imagine
something related to your mental image of heaven!
• or Use shapes. Look at the shape of the number, it could look like a
cliff face, use that in your mental picture.

9. Turn anything into pictures (continued)
• If you're trying to remember a word that you cannot picture, then use
substitution, or a paint a picture that you will quickly be able to link
to:
• Microsoft - Imagine Bill Gates, or a Windows computer, or a SOFT ball
in a MICROwave oven, etc.
• Apple - Imagine Steve Jobs, or the fruit, or an iPod/iPad, etc.
• Accountant - Imagine a cartoon style impression of a person
overburdened processing receipts, or a person writing numbers into a
giant floating spreadsheet.
• The number 8 - Picture a snowman

10. Use your imagination
• Remember, pick an image that is personal to you. Something which
will help YOU remember a point may not work for anyone else but
you! Try to use:
• Your own experiences
• Stereotypes
• Inside jokes
• People or celebrities
• ...or anything that will help you remember!

11. Take memorization to the next level
• Use the simple, but extremely effective Journey or ‘Loci’
technique to remember a virtually unlimited amount of
information.
• It is the method that almost every memory champion uses to
demonstrate amazing feats of memory.
• Get your free course on how to use this for your public speaking
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walk-throughs, and exercises.

12. Review and Rehearse
• Key Points: Begin and visualise each point as you are rehearsing your
speech, use this as your cue to begin speaking.
• Time your speech: You can use a phone for this.
• Record it and listen over it: Try to rehearse it enough to minimise
hesitations.

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