Communications CoP: How to Memorize Anything --- "How to memorize a speech, names, and anything?"

Communications CoP: How to Memorize Anything --- "How to memorize a speech, names, and anything?"

This is a NCPMI Communication & Public Speaking CoP- NCPL Toastmasters Club Meeting. The Meeting includes prepared speech, table topics, networking, evaluations, jokes and multiple meeting operations roles. 

09-26-2017 5:30 pm -8:00 pm (5.30-6.30 Registration, Snack & Pre-meeting Networking)

Cisco Campus - Building 12 (Vienna, Warsaw, Madrid)

Speaker:  Zbigniew Kabala, DTM, Phd

Abstract:

A brief history of the decline of our memorization skills, due to increasing delegation of information to external devices--writing, recordings, computers, smart phones, etc,--will be presented. Five short scientific experiments on memorization of different types of information will be conducted and conclusions will be drawn. The ancient Latin document (2,000+ years old), Rhetorica ad Herennium, will be discussed along with the Memory Palace memorization technique that the document teaches. Justification of this technique will be given in terms of the findings from the presented experiments. An application of the Memory Palace technique will be given. If time permits, a variant of the technique for memorizing names will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives: after hearing the keynote, the attendees should be able

1. to classify different types of information according to their memorization difficulty,
2. to convert convert the hard-to-memorize types of information to the easy-to-memorize types,
3. to use the Memory-Palace technique to memorize their speeches and presentations,
4. to use mnemonic techniques to enhance the effectiveness of their Memory-Palace technique, and
5. to use a variant of the Memory-Palace technique for memorizing faces and names.

About the Speaker: 

Zbigniew, Zbig, or just Big Z, is a civil-engineering faculty member at Duke and does research on groundwater flow and remediation. He joined Toastmasters in 2010. Zbig served as a division and area governor and in multiple club officer positions. Sponsor and a Founding Member of this club as well as a member of 3 other clubs, he strongly believes in Toastmasters mission and preaches it to anyone willing to listen. Naturalized United States citizen, who was born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, Zbig cherishes freedoms and opportunities granted by this country. He follows politics with passion and occasionally writes about it on Mic.com. 

Please note the following:

1. This meeting is free for NCPMI & North Carolina Project Leaders Toastmasters (NCPL) members
2. Space is limited if you register and cannot attend, please update the Chairperson in order that your space can be allocated to members on the standby list. -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
3. Snack/Finger food will be provided
4. PDUs will be reported by NCPMI
5. PMPs are required to provide their PMI numbers in order that their PDUs can be reported
6. Please arrive on time in order that the meeting can start promptly
7. Please leave the facility in equal or better condition than you found it
8. The meeting will take place at Cisco in Building 12, 7200 Kit Creek Rd, Morrisville, NC.  Click on Location for directions.  When you arrive, PLEASE LOOK FOR THE NCPMI & North Carolina Project Leaders Toastmasters signs.
9. There are other Toastmasters clubs meeting at Cisco. Please ensure that you attend the correct meeting- NCPMI Communication & Public Speaking CoP- NCPL Toastmasters Club Meeting