Quick Memory Map
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The Quick Memory Map
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The Quick Memory Map is very useful for quickly preparing speeches or to use as a guide when actually speaking. As you are giving a speech you can give a quick glance down to the Map to let you know where you are in your speech, talk or presentation, making it easy to deliver.
Only Words and Location are used to prepare a Quick Memory Map. Nothing else is put on the Map, no colour, no images or drawings, and no exaggeration.
On a Memory Map the combination of the Words and their Location is the most important thing in helping you deliver your speech or talk.
Words linked with their Locations on the Map will help you remember and know what you want to talk about and when you want to say it.
Using just words and location makes the production of a Memory Map fast, easy and simple and the linkage between the two makes your speech or talk easy to remember.
We have here a Memory Map that we produced to show you in detail how to produce a Memory Map, however, in this case we have removed everything other than the Words and of course the Locations for the words.
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The Memory Map that you can see is therefore a Quick Memory Map.
To make your Quick Memory Map the first thing to do is to draw a blank Map with the locations all in place. We have here a blank map for you to copy or you can simply print off a blank from this site.
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In the middle of the map you can see the centre location which is the place to put your main idea or point. This central location has the usual six locations surrounding it for the points you want to make in your speech. As usual these six locations have other locations linked to them for your sub-points.
At the Learning Well we like to put oval shapes around the central location and to mark out the six surrounding locations we like to put oval shapes as well, often dotted so that any words written down can be more easily seen. You can of course choose to do what we do and use ovals or you can use another shape or no shape at all.
In the central location in the middle of the page you should now write your main message so that it is a continuous reminder to you. This main message could be just a word or a phrase or a full sentence.
In our Memory Map that explained Memory Maps, in the six locations surrounding the central idea of Memory Maps, we used one word in some locations and two and sometimes three words in other locations.
If a few words are enough for you to remember what it is that you want to say then this is fine and if you want to put a phrase or whole sentence this is also fine.
The important point is that the words are acting as triggers for your memory so that you know what to say. If you want or need a sentence to help you remember that’s great.
If you so choose you could even write a joke in the locations if it helps you remember.
Here on the site we have an example of a map that uses words and their locations to help remember what I wanted to say when I gave a talk.
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The words were used to suggest an idea or point in my talk and helped me remember what I wanted to say.
You can see for each of the Locations the words used were sometimes single words, sometimes more than one word, sometimes a phrase and sometimes a sentence. These all helped me remember.
Now it’s your turn to use words, numbers of words, phrases and sentences and put them in their locations to help you remember your speech.
The important thing is to do what works for you!
You can use a Quick Memory Map as the baseline for a full Memory Map or a Video Screen Memory Map
When you have completed a Quick Memory Map you have a choice as to what to do next.
You can leave the map as it is.
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If you want to, you can enhance the map by adding colour, images, and exaggeration. If you do this you will have created have a full blown Memory Map using the other techniques available to you to help you remember your speech.
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You can use the Quick Memory Map as the basis of visualising a Video Screen Memory Map, one of the advanced techniques that you will find at the Learning Well. Visualise the Quick Memory Map onto a wall or imagined video screen and then visualise adding colour, still images, moving images and exaggeration, anything that helps you remember your speech.
Remember the important thing is to do what works for you!
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