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What techniques do you use to memorize long pieces of documents?

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What techniques do you use to memorize long pieces of documents?

I recently found if I work with someone to memorize the document, we do one paragraph when i can see and one when i can't send then read what I've done so far and go to the next paragraph and so on. What do you do!?​
 
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I'm not sure I understand what your situation is, but I've had to memorize (or become very familiar with) rpreseentations before, and I usually break it into paragraphs. Obviously if it's something you wrote yourself, it's a lot easier to memorize...
 
Tiny little pieces and sections at a time. I go over 1 tiny little section reading it several times, then I put it away and repeat it back as best as I can, then I look back at the reference and wherever I made a mistake I go back over it extra. I do the whole thing this way until I have it right!
 
i just re-read paragraphs and test myself on them over and over
it works sometimes
 
i never memorize things, it doesn't work well for me. if i had to try to memorize a text i guess i would read it a lot and write it down from memory but that seems like a Giant bother tbh
if i am doing a presentation or speech or something for school i try to rely on key words and knowing enough about what i'm talking about so even if i don't remember exactly how i worded something while writing the script i can still say something that means the same thing.
 
back when i took latin and we had to memorize tons of verb and noun charts, my teacher would make us chant them out loud or sing them in a song. it worked pretty well, i can still remember some of them

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oh, and writing it down actually helps a lot
 
Usually, I try to memorize it one sentence at a time. So I'll memorize one sentence, then read the next. Then I will memorize those two lines, and then add the third, and so on :)
 
I've been memorizing passages for the youth organization I'm in since I was ten and a half, and my technique is that I just take one paragraph, and learn it sentence by sentence. I'll repeat a sentence about 10 times until I'm feeling pretty confident about it. If the sentence is long or complicated I break it into two or more sections.

Using that method, I've managed to memorize a lot of text over the years; probably around 20 regular sized pages of text.
 
I am trash at memorization and any kind of presentation gives me horrible anxiety. I think the longest thing I even memorized was a a couple of paragraphs for an initiation ceremony for a Freemason sub-group I used to be a part of, and I got it down ok but died during the presentation... Thankfully it wasn't in front of a large group since the initiations we're private. :D
 
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