How do some public speakers memorize so many statistics when speaking on stage?
11th June 2013
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It’s really not hard. If you’re memorising a complete speech, remembering a few statistics is easy in comparison. Also, the stats you use in a speech should be meaningful (otherwise thy include them at all?) which means the have a built in mnemonic.
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