Memory Palace

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http://litemind.com/memory-palace/

 

Has anyone experimented with this?I just made a 19 step walk through my house and then remembered 19 random cards with only looking at them once. This technique is awesome.

[PotshotPolka]

Sounds like power animal bullshit to me. It's just mnemonic devices, the only effective method I've seen that's deliberate is attaching memories to motor functions, making it mechanical memory, I know a guy who does it, but he looks like a complete moron during tests.

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dumb thread is dumb

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dumb thread is dumb

 

How dare you :o

[Im a Jackass]

thanks I can remember my name now

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thanks I can remember my name now

 

Glad I could help, feel free to send me money as a thanks.

[Zealot]

I have a midterm tmrw, will this help?

 

[Bob Loblaw]

I put a ton of effort into this with my friend. I used my highschool and associated numbers with certain items that were familiar in certain rooms.

 

Heard about it from Derren Brown since he uses it to count cards, and since they use 4 decks at casinos, he has 52 items in his memory palace, with 4 stickers on each, and he keeps track of how many stickers are on each too (when a card comes up he removes a sticker from that item). It's ridic.

 

I never got around to putting it to real use though.

[Kuro]

sounds really impossible to me.

[SpaZMonKeY]

I put a ton of effort into this with my friend. I used my highschool and associated numbers with certain items that were familiar in certain rooms.

 

Heard about it from Derren Brown since he uses it to count cards, and since they use 4 decks at casinos, he has 52 items in his memory palace, with 4 stickers on each, and he keeps track of how many stickers are on each too (when a card comes up he removes a sticker from that item). It's ridic.

 

I never got around to putting it to real use though.

 

Being a magician myself, I have read a lot of Derren Brown's work, and this is exactly what he uses. He actually teaches in one of his books different methods of memorization. The Memory Palace method is by far one of the more technical. It usually helps to imagine a routine you do almost on a daily schedule. I would use myself driving home from work, entering my home, putting certain things away, and getting dressed in some regular clothes. I do it every night, so going through it by memory and attaching objects to certain events makes memorization easy.

 

It's quite brilliant really.