Chunking Is Not a New Dance Move!

# Chunking Is Not a New Dance Move! How is your memory recall? Would you love your audience to recall everything you share? This blog is about how we can build up the memory muscle and also apply these techniques to the content we offer out there to others in our memberships, courses, etc. My name is Nikki Cali and I'm the founder of Wisdome. I created this platform for my own needs and the needs of fellow membership owners, course creators and coaches. To share our wisdom we are recalling lessons we've learnt in our past and onto our audience. **But how do we share that information so our audience remembers it and appreciates it?** Let's begin with how we first learn to walk — when we learn to walk we may fall over a few times, but with repetition and revision we begin to strengthen our recall patterns. ## REPEAT Have you ever felt like you seem to be repeating yourself a lot in your content? In a recent interview I had with a guest on my podcast, we had a good ole chat about repeating our message. Keeping the main message and lesson on repeat is a must. If you are starting out, REPEAT is the number one tip! So do so through varied medium — through text, video, audio, even images. Consistency helps drive through your message. By repetition we are helping our audience recall our message in the short term. However **by helping our audience implement and evaluate the lesson, they are able to capture that lesson into a longer term memory.** ## RELATE According to neuroscientist Daniel Bor, author of *The Ravenous Brain*, chunking represents our ability to 'hack' the limits of our memory. Chunking is a kind of cognitive compression mechanism where, as humans, we have a natural tendency to see patterns. When we place things into chunks of memory we tend to recall that data easier. For example, have you tried to recall what you needed to buy from the grocers and had to recall a memory such as a conversation? That is you 'chunking' that memory so you can recall it later. ## HOW REPEATING AND RELATING WORK TOGETHER Repeating through rehearsal and strategic learning through implementation and evaluation can improve short term memory, and in turn help build that information into long term memory for your audience. Relating our information — such as offering analogies or relatable stories — creates links and integrates things into your audience's existing knowledge, which helps them retain your content. ## How Can We Share Content to Help Our Audience Recall? You can use a multitude of ways to deliver and engage with your audience: - **Videos** — Build in stories and analogies so your audience can relate, and repeat your message in different ways. - **Text** — Build in questions, break up your paragraphs into sizable chunks of meaning. - **Images** — Add emotion to inspire memories. - **Interact** — Get your audience involved by implementing the lesson through their own experiences. I hope this post helped you in some way, either by helping you build up your memory muscle with 'chunking' or offering a way to help you share with your audience.