WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:01.259 Welcome back. 2 00:00:01.259 --> 00:00:05.093 In the last video, step three of the plan was: build a map. 3 00:00:05.093 --> 00:00:10.081 And a lot of people hear 'make a mind map', draw something pretty, and then never use it again. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.857 So in this video, we're going to build the map together, one decision at a time. 5 00:00:15.857 --> 00:00:18.212 Then we'll add the order you need for reciting. 6 00:00:18.212 --> 00:00:21.374 And then I'll show you how to actually use the map to remember. 7 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:24.132 First, the mindset. 8 00:00:24.132 --> 00:00:26.560 The map itself is not the goal. 9 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:31.019 If you copy a list, you read, you write, you read, you write. 10 00:00:31.019 --> 00:00:32.786 You never have to decide anything. 11 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:37.503 But when you make a map, every item forces a question. 12 00:00:37.503 --> 00:00:38.537 Where does this go? 13 00:00:38.537 --> 00:00:39.883 What is it connected to? 14 00:00:39.883 --> 00:00:41.361 Why there, and not over here? 15 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:44.709 That deciding is the thinking. 16 00:00:44.709 --> 00:00:46.800 And the thinking is what makes it stick. 17 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:50.093 So the question to keep asking isn't 'how do I remember this?' 18 00:00:50.093 --> 00:00:53.327 It's 'how does this connect to what I already know?' 19 00:00:53.327 --> 00:00:55.947 The paper is just the evidence that you asked it. 20 00:00:57.248 --> 00:00:58.351 Four rules. 21 00:00:58.351 --> 00:01:00.130 One: few words. 22 00:01:00.130 --> 00:01:02.185 Labels, not sentences. 23 00:01:02.185 --> 00:01:07.089 If you can't say it in two or three words, that's a sign you don't understand it yet. 24 00:01:08.384 --> 00:01:10.557 Two: position means something. 25 00:01:10.557 --> 00:01:13.009 Things that are related sit close together. 26 00:01:14.318 --> 00:01:16.419 Three: every line has a reason. 27 00:01:16.419 --> 00:01:19.472 If you draw a line, you should be able to say why it's there. 28 00:01:20.785 --> 00:01:23.090 And four: build from the center out. 29 00:01:23.090 --> 00:01:25.999 The most important idea goes in the middle. 30 00:01:25.999 --> 00:01:27.622 Details go on the edges. 31 00:01:28.921 --> 00:01:30.084 Okay, let's build it. 32 00:01:30.084 --> 00:01:32.909 Start in the middle, with the most important idea. 33 00:01:32.909 --> 00:01:35.169 For this du'a, that's the ask. 34 00:01:35.169 --> 00:01:36.250 Rescue us. 35 00:01:36.250 --> 00:01:40.721 Everything else on this page has to connect back to it, so it goes in the center. 36 00:01:42.025 --> 00:01:45.520 Next, the big branches: our three lenses. 37 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:46.794 Beyond everything. 38 00:01:46.794 --> 00:01:47.888 Over everything. 39 00:01:47.888 --> 00:01:48.789 Close to me. 40 00:01:48.789 --> 00:01:51.494 Notice, two or three words each. 41 00:01:51.494 --> 00:01:52.744 No sentences. 42 00:01:54.059 --> 00:01:56.088 Now we hang sections on the lenses. 43 00:01:56.088 --> 00:01:58.155 Start with the ones that stand out to you. 44 00:01:58.155 --> 00:02:00.054 Don't try to place all one hundred. 45 00:02:00.054 --> 00:02:02.326 Light, section forty-seven. 46 00:02:02.326 --> 00:02:04.189 Life, section seventy. 47 00:02:04.189 --> 00:02:07.350 'Greater than every great one', thirty-three. 48 00:02:07.350 --> 00:02:10.295 'Living, who never dies', thirty-one. 49 00:02:10.295 --> 00:02:13.972 Each leaf is a tiny label, plus the section number. 50 00:02:13.972 --> 00:02:15.427 That number matters. 51 00:02:15.427 --> 00:02:16.533 We'll use it later. 52 00:02:17.826 --> 00:02:21.273 Over everything: night and day, sixty-two. 53 00:02:21.273 --> 00:02:24.350 The earth, the mountains, the sun, sixty-eight. 54 00:02:24.350 --> 00:02:26.838 'Maker of everything made', ten. 55 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:31.847 Close to me: 'my provision in hard times', eleven. 56 00:02:31.847 --> 00:02:35.213 'He created me and fed me', sixty-six. 57 00:02:35.213 --> 00:02:38.146 'Support of the one with no support', twenty-eight. 58 00:02:38.146 --> 00:02:41.595 'Protector of whoever seeks protection', thirty. 59 00:02:42.896 --> 00:02:43.927 Now, your turn. 60 00:02:43.927 --> 00:02:45.081 Pause the video. 61 00:02:45.081 --> 00:02:47.196 Section forty-five says: 62 00:02:47.712 --> 00:02:52.770 يا أقرَبَ مِن كُلِّ قَريبٍ، يا أحَبَّ مِن كُلِّ حَبيبٍ 63 00:02:53.172 --> 00:02:54.804 'Nearer than every near one. 64 00:02:54.804 --> 00:02:56.847 More loved than every loved one.' 65 00:02:56.847 --> 00:02:57.821 Where does it go? 66 00:02:57.821 --> 00:02:59.239 Beyond everything? 67 00:02:59.239 --> 00:03:00.261 Over everything? 68 00:03:00.261 --> 00:03:01.210 Close to me? 69 00:03:01.210 --> 00:03:05.153 Actually make a decision, and have a reason, before you keep watching. 70 00:03:06.444 --> 00:03:07.139 Okay. 71 00:03:07.139 --> 00:03:09.146 Here's the part most people get wrong. 72 00:03:09.146 --> 00:03:14.615 If you said 'beyond', you're right: it's a comparison, nearer than every near one. 73 00:03:14.615 --> 00:03:19.062 If you said 'close', you're also right: it's about nearness and love. 74 00:03:19.062 --> 00:03:19.987 It's both. 75 00:03:19.987 --> 00:03:21.826 Don't force it into one box. 76 00:03:21.826 --> 00:03:24.266 Put it between them, and link it to both. 77 00:03:24.266 --> 00:03:29.206 Same with eighty-two: 'Near in His highness, high in His nearness.' 78 00:03:29.206 --> 00:03:32.475 When something doesn't fit, that's not a problem with your map. 79 00:03:32.475 --> 00:03:33.545 That's an insight. 80 00:03:33.545 --> 00:03:36.081 You've found the place where two ideas meet. 81 00:03:37.380 --> 00:03:39.012 Last, draw the echoes. 82 00:03:39.012 --> 00:03:44.385 Thirty-three and forty-five: 'greater than every', and 'nearer than every'. 83 00:03:44.385 --> 00:03:50.455 Twenty-eight and fifty-nine: 'support of the one with no support', and 'friend of the one with no friend'. 84 00:03:50.455 --> 00:03:54.517 Use a different kind of line, so echoes look different from your main branches. 85 00:03:55.814 --> 00:03:57.050 And that's version one. 86 00:03:57.050 --> 00:03:59.465 It's not complete, and it shouldn't be. 87 00:03:59.465 --> 00:04:01.376 You add sections as you meet them. 88 00:04:01.376 --> 00:04:04.393 The map grows as your understanding grows. 89 00:04:05.714 --> 00:04:07.106 One more placing tip. 90 00:04:07.106 --> 00:04:10.447 In the last video, we sorted sections by how they open. 91 00:04:10.447 --> 00:04:15.375 Here are three sections that all open the same way: 'Ya man', 'O He who'. 92 00:04:15.375 --> 00:04:17.286 He sees, and is not seen. 93 00:04:17.286 --> 00:04:19.041 He turns night and day. 94 00:04:19.041 --> 00:04:21.156 He created me and shaped me. 95 00:04:21.156 --> 00:04:23.813 Pause, and place each one on a lens. 96 00:04:23.813 --> 00:04:26.637 Same family, so same lens, right? 97 00:04:27.948 --> 00:04:28.847 Not quite. 98 00:04:28.847 --> 00:04:32.765 Section fifty: 'He sees, and is not seen.' 99 00:04:32.765 --> 00:04:34.460 That's beyond everything. 100 00:04:35.782 --> 00:04:39.301 Section sixty-two: 'He turns night and day.' 101 00:04:39.301 --> 00:04:40.683 That's over everything. 102 00:04:41.998 --> 00:04:46.262 Section sixty-six: 'He created me and shaped me.' 103 00:04:46.262 --> 00:04:47.356 That's close to me. 104 00:04:47.356 --> 00:04:48.738 Same opening words. 105 00:04:48.738 --> 00:04:50.217 Three different lenses. 106 00:04:50.217 --> 00:04:52.260 The opening helps you find a section. 107 00:04:52.260 --> 00:04:54.339 The meaning tells you where it lives. 108 00:04:55.665 --> 00:05:01.408 Now, you might be thinking: this is great for meaning, but when I recite, I need the order. 109 00:05:01.408 --> 00:05:03.090 And the map doesn't show order. 110 00:05:03.090 --> 00:05:03.800 Right. 111 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:06.360 So we add a second view: the order strip. 112 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:12.790 Across the bottom of your page, draw all one hundred sections as a line, and mark the twenty-five anchors. 113 00:05:12.790 --> 00:05:15.891 Each gap between anchors is a block of about four. 114 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.540 And here's why the section numbers on your leaves matter. 115 00:05:19.540 --> 00:05:21.752 'My hard times' is section eleven. 116 00:05:21.752 --> 00:05:24.925 So you can jump from the map straight to its place on the strip. 117 00:05:26.233 --> 00:05:27.300 Map for meaning. 118 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:28.466 Strip for order. 119 00:05:28.466 --> 00:05:31.964 Two views of the same du'a, linked by the numbers. 120 00:05:33.267 --> 00:05:35.861 Then turn each block into a tiny story. 121 00:05:35.861 --> 00:05:37.483 Take block nine to twelve. 122 00:05:37.483 --> 00:05:40.512 Nine is the anchor, the rhyming names. 123 00:05:40.512 --> 00:05:42.988 Mani', Dafi', Rafi'. 124 00:05:44.283 --> 00:05:46.468 Ten: 'Maker of everything made. 125 00:05:46.468 --> 00:05:48.932 Creator of everything created.' 126 00:05:50.250 --> 00:05:53.156 Eleven: 'My provision in my hard times. 127 00:05:53.156 --> 00:05:54.731 My guide when I'm lost.' 128 00:05:56.050 --> 00:05:56.853 Twelve: 129 00:05:58.322 --> 00:06:04.454 يا مُقَلِّبَ القُلوبِ، يا طَبيبَ القُلوبِ، يا مُنَوِّرَ القُلوبِ 130 00:06:04.862 --> 00:06:06.013 'Turner of hearts. 131 00:06:06.013 --> 00:06:07.287 Healer of hearts. 132 00:06:07.287 --> 00:06:08.285 Light of hearts.' 133 00:06:09.566 --> 00:06:11.054 Now look at the movement. 134 00:06:11.054 --> 00:06:11.955 Everything. 135 00:06:11.955 --> 00:06:12.725 Then me. 136 00:06:12.725 --> 00:06:13.746 Then my heart. 137 00:06:13.746 --> 00:06:14.900 It zooms in. 138 00:06:14.900 --> 00:06:17.905 Once you see that, the order isn't random anymore. 139 00:06:17.905 --> 00:06:19.491 It's a story you can follow. 140 00:06:19.491 --> 00:06:25.128 Do this for each block, and write the story in two or three words next to it on the strip. 141 00:06:26.438 --> 00:06:27.229 Your turn. 142 00:06:27.229 --> 00:06:31.628 Pause the video, open the text, and look at block thirteen to sixteen. 143 00:06:31.628 --> 00:06:32.746 What's the movement? 144 00:06:32.746 --> 00:06:33.815 What's the story? 145 00:06:33.815 --> 00:06:35.738 It doesn't have to be the 'right' story. 146 00:06:35.738 --> 00:06:40.402 It has to be your story, and you have to be able to say why it fits. 147 00:06:40.402 --> 00:06:41.688 That's what makes it yours. 148 00:06:42.974 --> 00:06:44.402 Now, the most important part. 149 00:06:44.402 --> 00:06:46.890 A map you only look at is just a nice picture. 150 00:06:46.890 --> 00:06:48.777 You have to use it to test yourself. 151 00:06:48.777 --> 00:06:50.424 One: point and say. 152 00:06:50.424 --> 00:06:54.558 Cover the text, point at a leaf, and try to say that section. 153 00:06:55.874 --> 00:06:57.074 Two: walk the strip. 154 00:06:57.074 --> 00:07:01.100 Pick a block, say its story, then recite the block from memory. 155 00:07:02.408 --> 00:07:06.817 Three: when you blank, and you will, don't just reread the text. 156 00:07:06.817 --> 00:07:07.958 Ask why you blanked. 157 00:07:07.958 --> 00:07:09.124 Is the label weak? 158 00:07:09.124 --> 00:07:10.302 Is a link missing? 159 00:07:10.302 --> 00:07:11.829 Is it in the wrong place? 160 00:07:11.829 --> 00:07:13.115 Then fix the map. 161 00:07:14.408 --> 00:07:15.319 That's the loop. 162 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.927 Test, find the gap, fix the map. 163 00:07:17.927 --> 00:07:19.983 The gaps are where the learning happens. 164 00:07:21.308 --> 00:07:26.390 And every week or so, take a blank page, and redraw the whole map from memory. 165 00:07:26.390 --> 00:07:27.940 Version one will be messy. 166 00:07:27.940 --> 00:07:31.318 Gaps, things crossed out, arrows everywhere. 167 00:07:31.318 --> 00:07:32.267 That's fine. 168 00:07:33.575 --> 00:07:36.842 Version two has fewer gaps and better labels. 169 00:07:38.175 --> 00:07:40.132 By version three, it's clean. 170 00:07:40.132 --> 00:07:44.302 And more importantly, it lives in your head, not on the paper. 171 00:07:44.302 --> 00:07:45.564 That's the real goal. 172 00:07:46.875 --> 00:07:48.423 The key is the order. 173 00:07:48.423 --> 00:07:49.962 Draw from memory first. 174 00:07:49.962 --> 00:07:52.365 Only then look at your old map and compare. 175 00:07:52.365 --> 00:07:54.913 If you look first, you're just copying again. 176 00:07:56.211 --> 00:07:57.699 Quick list of mistakes. 177 00:07:57.699 --> 00:07:59.634 One: too many words. 178 00:07:59.634 --> 00:08:02.819 If your map is full of sentences, it's just a list again. 179 00:08:04.145 --> 00:08:06.342 Two: everything at one level. 180 00:08:06.342 --> 00:08:11.150 If there's no center and no branches, you haven't decided what matters most. 181 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:14.526 Three: no cross-links. 182 00:08:14.526 --> 00:08:17.699 The bridges and the echoes are honestly the best part. 183 00:08:17.699 --> 00:08:19.634 That's where the deep connections are. 184 00:08:20.949 --> 00:08:24.264 And four: making it pretty instead of thinking. 185 00:08:24.264 --> 00:08:25.382 Colors are fine. 186 00:08:25.382 --> 00:08:27.028 But the decisions are what count. 187 00:08:28.349 --> 00:08:29.368 So, recap. 188 00:08:29.368 --> 00:08:35.907 Build: the ask in the center, three lenses, leaves placed by meaning, then bridges and echoes. 189 00:08:37.216 --> 00:08:44.004 Add order: a strip of all one hundred, with the twenty-five anchors, and a tiny story for each block. 190 00:08:45.316 --> 00:08:49.040 Test: point and say, walk the strip, and fix the gaps. 191 00:08:50.356 --> 00:08:54.416 Rebuild: a blank page, from memory, about once a week. 192 00:08:55.732 --> 00:08:57.665 Go build version one this week. 193 00:08:57.665 --> 00:08:58.794 It will be messy. 194 00:08:58.794 --> 00:09:00.153 That's exactly right. 195 00:09:00.153 --> 00:09:01.703 The mess is you thinking.