Hello everyone.
My name is Zachary. I think it's important that you consider me, not only a real person, but a sincere one, and one of your friends
I took the course last year, I started in August and finished in the end of November. There are a few things that I hear over and over and over that I want to address. I hope I don't sound contentious, I don't ever mean for it to be that way. The reason I'm posting this is because GMS has dramatically improved my life, and I want to share that improvement with other people.
'Does it work?'
Yes, it works
Every kind of information is covered in the course, so by the time you graduate, you've already memorized foreign alphabets, foreign words, foreign phrases, medical terminology, law code, names, phone numbers, addresses, terminology, tables, etc, etc...
'The Loci method is available for free at wikipedia. Why do they sell techniques?'.
All of the techniques used in GMS are free, too. You can find them in the
GMS Manual. Yes, some of them are similar to techniques you might be familiar with, and that has to do with how the course was developed. Proven techniques were implemented together with newly developed techniques to create a modern, master system.
Let me say this again: The course is not about techniques. If all you want are the techniques, read the GMS manual, but I promise you, it will do you very little good compared to what you will get from the course. Knowing the techniques isn't good enough. You need to make them natural to you. You need to have the visualization ability, attention control, and mental capacity to sit down for hours at a time and have all of your focus be on the images you are connecting. Otherwise, you will *never* see the potential of your memory. It's like the difference between buying a book about workouts, and having a personal trainer that is there to guide you, not only at the gym, but in your nutrition, attitude, etc...
'So you learn to memorize phone numbers... How is that useful?'
Ironically, the best part about my phenomenal memory isn't that I can memorize books. It's that I never have to worry about forgetting someone's name, or their number/birthday/address, etc. That's because I care more about how I interact with people than just about anything else. BUT... anything can be memorized with GMS. Like I said above, medical terminology/anatomy, law code, textbooks, foreign phrases... anything
'Memorization is useless... Understanding is key'
This is a very good point. If you memorize the phrase 'bom dia', but you don't know what it means, what's the point? In GMS, the simplest, fastest, and most effective way to memorize something, especially in complicated textbooks, is to understand it. However, if there is something that you don't understand, you can still memorize it. Think of it this way. You can take the part of your textbook you don't understand, put it in your mind, and carry it with you. Then you can mull it over, think about it, compare it to other data you have memorized(you'll never, ever make connections between information if you don't have any in your mind). Also, looking at things from a very visual point of view can help tremendously in the learning process.
Another point to the understanding aspect is foreign words. If you encounter a new foreign word, you don't understand it. When you memorize the word and it's meaning(both are memorized together in GMS), you understand the word. The process of encoding data into visual images is based off of understanding.
'Ok then, what have you memorized lately?'
I'm happy to share my experiences. I started up a blog, and I'll be updating it with the projects I'm working on. Even though right now I only have about an hour a day to spend on studying, I'm getting a lot out of it. If you want to talk about how it's working for me, the effectiveness of it, or anything else, check out my progress at:
Memory-Improvement Blog