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3C) Happy-Birthday-level memorized

When you get to 3C, you don’t just have the script memorized, you have it memorized

cold

. And that’s a

key

distinction. If you’re in a restaurant and your table starts singing Happy Birthday to someone you’re with, you can join in with them even if you’re simultaneously taking a picture of the birthday girl, moving some stuff out of the way so the waiter has a place on the table to put the cake, observing the other people in the restaurant looking over and wishing this wasn’t happening, and four other things. It’s no problem—you can still sing the lyrics. You can do that because the lyrics to Happy Birthday aren’t coming out of your conscious mind—they’re coming out of your subconscious. They’re coming out automatically, and your conscious mind can focus entirely on other things while you’re singing.

That’s how well-memorized 3C is.

The people at TED refer to two tests you need to pass to qualify as Happy-Birthday-level memorized:

1.

If you record yourself saying the talk and play it back at 2x speed, can you say it out loud while it’s playing and stay

ahead

of the recording?

2.

Can you recite the talk with no problem while simultaneously doing an unrelated task that requires attention, like following a recipe and measuring out the ingredients into a bowl?

Memorizing something to this degree might seem like a daunting task, but everyone who’s ever acted in a play has done it. It’s not as impossible as it sounds, because the human brain is able to engrave things to that level if you just rehearse enough and sleep on it enough times.

3C）生日模式

3C模式不需要你背任何东西，这是主要目的。好比在餐厅给你的朋友过生日，别人唱起了生日歌，你也会立即跟着和，同时给她拍照，摆摆桌子让服务员放上蛋糕，注意到其他桌人的注视，心里想着这些不会打扰到他们。这都没关系——你还能把歌词唱对。因为生日歌是下意识唱出来的，潜意识帮你在唱歌的时候做其他的。

这就是3C。

通过TED的两项测试才能让你去用3C模式演讲。

1.

用二倍语速大声地演讲

2.

脱稿演讲同时做另一件事，比如照着食谱处理食材放进碗中。

这看起来是一个让人望而却步的任务，但是表演过的人一定做到过。其实这并不难，只要你预先排练次数多到让你打瞌睡，你的大脑就能胜任之。

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每日一词
rehearse
vt. 排练；预演
vi. 排练；演习
[ 过去式 rehearsed 过去分词 rehearsed 现在分词 rehearsing ]

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Happy-Birthday-level memorized