I only know one of the first words (if not the first, I don't know) which is "Menin" that means "anger" and it is also the subject of the Iliad: Achilles's anger ;)
Thuy Nguyen I tried method too and it worked on my test. No I can't recite what I have learned now because I ionically have forgotten it. The reason being is that I stopped re-visiting the memory palaces I made which were made specifically for the test. I'm confident that if the Palaces are revisited regularly they won't be easily forgotten. Which would be no where near as difficult as bland rote memorization.
Guys, he memorized it word for word, that's why it took so long.... What people usually do when employing this technique is creating one or two images per paragraph to remember the main idea, which of course is much, much faster. I don't doubt people who say they've memorized more pages in less time than him, but I highly doubt it was word for word like he did.
Not really relevant, in my middle school and highschool years we had to memorize the definitions and explanations word by word, and it too less than 4hrs for like 90% of the subjects
I read an interesting book called 'Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering' about the history of memory techniques and the memory championships people compete in. At the end of the book, the irony was noted that, despite winning medals, these people forget the same things in the same amounts in everyday life as the rest of us unless they completely commit to preparing mind palaces in advance for whatever it is they want to remember.
No technique is perfect, memory palaces work well for long content that needs to be known by heart and where you have at least some time to remember it. You can see it as a tool, if your exams or work require you to know a lot of stuff by heart (eg. medicine, history) this might be something to think about. But it is also an expensive tool (requires time, effort, repetition, creativity) that's maybe not so useful for other goals, where other tools and mnemonics are more appropriate (or goold old testing yourself). Also, contaminations can occur (you could mix up your palaces or mental images) and remembering is still a long way from understanding & applying.
This actually works, I basically memorised 5 essays about 1200 words each (all up 6000 words) that were all cemented in my head. Through vigorous repetition it took about 1-2 hours to memorise one essay, and I did this through basically using a section of my house and assigning words to objects (similar to what he did) but more physical. After about a week the 6000 words were all in my head. The great thing about this is, you can pick up from any section of the essay/text without trouble. It helped me SO much in exams, and after the whole experimentation I was absolutely amazed at how much m e m o r y capacity your brain actually has. You can even remember certain things months after you’ve memorised them.
YES this does work, I used it to memorise all my quotes for essays in English during my final year. Also, in Chemistry class in my final year, I took about 40-50 minutes, using this technique, to remember all the cations and anions we had to memorise, and their charges (eg. Rubidium = Rb+, Nickel = Ni2+, Sulfite = SO32-). There were about 60 of these cations and anions.
c'mma in our current time and age if you want to come back to anything immediately，you just look it up on your phone，web or what stored on your personal cloud. (but if you're talking about recalling things in your dream，I've got no rebuttal for this LOL)
The next step up is called "Roman Rooms", essentially you create the location in your head, rather than using a real location, you imagine entirely fictional areas. I use it to solve larger size Rubik's cubes blind folded, (ie. 8x8x8 cubes).
Frederick Abel I am looking into beginning blindsolving 3x3x3s. right now, I know LBL and am getting into 45-ish 4LLL. do you have a preferred method? I just started learning about the memorization schemes today. also, do you have any videos that might help me?
No, I'm not. It took the guy four days to memorize 38 sentences. Back in middle school we had to learn and recite poems of that length on a regular basis, and of course it'd always be left for the night before.
You know poems are similar to songs in that they have a rhythm, or you can easily give it one, which can definitely make it easier to remember that as opposed to a novel or a chapter. Yeah, he used it to remember a page of text, but you gotta start somewhere if it's something new to you, like he said was new to him. And everyone has different methods to remember things as well as different abilities to retain information, so perhaps this doesn't apply to you, but I'm glad you let everyone know you're better than him.
This makes sense. I always pace around my entire house while studying for exams. now I understand why my method works so well. I can literally memorize anything in a matter of minutes to hours.
I’ve memorised blank verse and it didn’t take 3 to 4 hours every day. That sounds like a very inefficient approach imho. I use mnemonics, too, and have read extensively in such methods, though for poetry the basic approach is to first learn by rote each line. Harry Lorayne, a great memoriser, says we use mnemonics to aid the natural memory, not to replace it. Read each line, look away and repeat, then continue for every other line. Then read two lines, look away and repeat. Do the next two. Etc. Then three, etc. By the time you get to a sweep of six lines you should have it all. If that chapter is just a page and a half, I reckon I could maybe get it all in an hour. I did Shakespeare’s ‘Thrice the brinded cat had mewd’ full witches’ speech and it took about 30 minutes to memorise completely, with some testing the following day. I then like to revisit it during the week for fun and to really ingrain it. Writing it out, for ingraining the punctuation, is also recommended. (Normally I do a stanza each day, so it’s a fun process for memorising a poem or two each week, rather than a chore.) I honestly don’t need a memory palace or mnemonic after doing the above, but after the above method you can use a key image per line to fix it in mind. To be honest, the only mnemonic I use is to memorise what poems I have memorised...because the ironic thing is you can forget what poems you have stored away if you don’t place the beginning of the first line in your palace. But don’t memorise a book chapter; memorise poetry. Makes more sense. No one wants a book recited, and it’s more fun to visit poems in your mind.
I'm sure this would be great for learning things that you need to recall linearly (like the lines in a poem) But would it work for things you need to call off the top of your head?
Gawsome No, to best recall things off the top of your head, you would need to use retrieval cues (look it up for further detail) basically, they're details that help you remember things in your long term memory. If i say, fruit, you will most likely picture/recall an apple or orange, etc
Gawsome , yes. The version of this that uses a path or well known route is for linear recollection, but the version that references rooms in a palace leverages spatial memory to index the contents of the rooms. You don't go through the house linearly. You go to the room you need and look in the spot where you kept it.
rednax well you can create infinite ammount of rooms in your palace/memory place, the thing is how quickly can you get to then when you need them. Regardless if you need info now or later it always stays there.
@@OFFICALMENOFCULTURE wrong, the fastest way is to just think about it and go. When you repeat the process of remembering the path enough times you intinctively know where to look. Just like you know where your desk is in your office or refrigerator at home.
Sorry, but the point was that it was supposed to be efficient. Spending 3-4 hours per day practicing for 4 days does not sound efficient. That sounds like brute force.
Krombopulos Michael well maybe his example was not the greatest but it has been shown to work in other cases. The point is to link the sequence to a thought that is easy to remember.
To be honest I'm not sure, since I haven't tried it yet, but since you use pictures I would assume you could print out the pictures that symbolize the words. You could maybe even use objects in your home instead of pictures
"I forget somebody's name five seconds after I meet them." I have been living with my roommate for almost a week now but I can't remember his name and I'm too embarrassed to ask him his name.
It's OK take it slow learn an ayah a day your memory will improve with time I'm assuming you're under 20. old age will ruin your memory so don't procrastinate lol
I've realised that I'm pretty good at memorizing things, and it's because when I'm reading something I always tend to visualise it effortlessly. So when I have to recall that bit of information, my mind simply brings up the image that I made up in my mind earlier, and I instantly remember what I had read!
3-4 hours for 4 days to memorize two pages? It sounds like time wasting technique. I think that students who use mnemonic technic to memorize, are better for the simple reason that they put more effort to memorize compared to other students.
Alexqndr , you don't think the studies he cited accounted for that? Also, he said this works for special ed students and for himself who claims to have especially bad memory.
The more you use it and get an understanding for it, the easier it gets. It's like if you're taking notes, after years of taking notes, do you find your self having a much easier time then when you first started? No one said it works for everyone, just that it does work for a good portion of people. It plays to the human's brains strengths, but is only useful if given time and effort. No one rode their bike the first day they got it.
People will cite whatever hack studies will back up their claim. Remember the studies that showed "brain-games" (luminosity apps) would improve memory? Until the scientific community had enough and did actual peer reviewed research with larger sample sizes? www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/ Anyway, 4 days to memorize 1 1/2 pages verbatim is borderline ineffective regardless of technique. If you work in an industry that requires such skills, editor, lawyer, etc you may have a hard time
Prince Blake , works fine for lawyers. Cicero was a successful lawyer who wrote about this method in his book, in addition to his time as Consul of Rome. The efficacy of this technique has been well established in the time since then.
I used this to memorize 115 places of pi for a competition in 6th grade. I’m about to turn 21 and I still remember 55 digits, so yeah it works pretty well, even in the long term, although some more complicated things might fade a bit over time without consistent recall
@Nicholas Pagano well why don't you memorize an entire book that's written in your secondary language and then we'll talk. Don't hate when you can't even do it
@@humanalltoohuman that's a wild assumption probably coming out of your hate for a religion and intolerance towards people who are different to you. You sound like a very bad person to be around.
Like: ZERROOOO EEEEIIIIIGHTT NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH
Step 1: clear schedule Step 2: prepare for loss of street cred Step 3: read the chapter a bazillion times Step 4: ask self why you wasted so much of your life on this task Step 5: stages of grief Rinse and repeat
That's nothing . I memorized 5 whole books for my final exams in Greece . They basically don't want you to understand what the book says but seriously just know the books by heart. And this is what we are evaluated upon .
We have an old saying in Greece. ''Repitation is the mother of learning'' if that can be translated well enough. So yeah , i kept repeting whole pages until i knew the by heart. Sometimes i linked spesific photoes that were either in the book or i was finding the on google with spesific pages too so that i could remember better where was what .Another thing . When a phrase was too complicated i used to make acronyms . Or i was reading out loud for me to hear what i should memorize later. everywere i was i carried one of those books and whenever i didnt remember something well enough i used to pick ou the book and read it again, even inside the bus. I seemed like a nerd.. I am telling you , this year was a true torture. And you want to hear the best one? I failed so have to try again this year . But now it si so much easyer... Wish me luck..
Not a perfect technique for textual memory -though it worked. But I used this technique in medical school and it was a god send. I learned all of my pharmacology by putting the medicatiions by class into different rooms in my house. In one short evening I was able to learn the entire semester of pharmacology. The amazing thing is that once you establish the spots in the palace you can add endless detail to the facts you know. At exam time I was confident that I knew EVERTHING they were able to ask. It works great for memorizing lists etc.
its all visual processing . the best mathematicians and scientists in the world see things as pictures rather then numbers or memorization. When they studied Albert Einstein's brain the part of his brain responsible for imagination and visualizing information was more developed then regular people. He visualized scenarios using formulas and ideas. All this is doing is using tricks to bring about memorization. I always thought this was regular way of memorizing things.
mk17173n , this isn't about synesthesia either. The mind palace is about leveraging spatial memory in conjunction with visual. This is because the spatial memory is powerful. Useful when wandering across the savanna trying to remember where that watering hole was you visited when you were a kid :) Elephants do that with their spatial memory, not visual, thus the "never forgets", but ours is also powerful.
That seems really elaborate to memorize something. Honestly, reading something over and over works just as well, or just have what you wanna memorize recorded and listening to it.
if you want to memorize anything (paragraphs and pages from poetry to scriptures) try this: First, take keywords from a text. second, make pictures for those keywords third put the keywords around your home fourth practice repeating the text a little bit fifth practice recalling the text about 20+ times sixth delete the images you made finally, you have it all verbatim memorized for a very long long time. (optional) spaced recalling/review/repetition.
ReviewTube You are missing the point. Memory palaces are not meant to be fast. It takes much time to create vivid imagery and virtual links, that's true. The goal of it is to memorize it long term and kind of brand it into your brain. It's not effortless or particular efficient, but effective.
I know, but he was using too many places and too many images for not a lot of information, aside from taking a really long time to learn it. All I'm saying is that the video is misleading, like you said, memory palaces should be used to memorize stuff long term and be able to use it whenever and the video presented that amazing learning power as something used to learn 1.5 pages of text in 4 days.
I watched this completely invested until I remembered that I've memorised and performed Shakespeare before. That's me ironically forgetting that I have good memory.
Good to see no one is asking any practical questions here. I don’t understand how to break up the chunks: one image for a whole sentence? Even if that gets you the key words, what about the exact sequence? How does the image help with that?
I will attest first hand that these memory techniques totally work. I have memorized one hundred Peg words, which took me a couple months. But now I can memorize a list of 100 objects in and out of order. Which is pretty cool.
Too bad I have no visual memory to speak of. I can't even recall my first girl friend's hair color, let alone anything about our first kiss. And although every room in my apartment has a different color, if you asked me outside of my apartment I would probably mess them up. On the bright side, I can still recite the first scene from Macbeth which I memorized by "brute force" in less than an hour more than a decade ago.
frankbauerful , you can still leverage the extreme power of spatial memory. The video is about the Method of Loci, which means location, as in spatial memory. It's only partly visual memory and emotional is the third thing you can try to mix in.
Different people can learn things through different means. The annoying aspect of this video that it didn't touch on is that this is best for the more imaginative people. There are other methods, that whilst similar, are more personalized depending on the person. You just have to find the one that actually fits your preferred learning method.
Thank you so much for the video! I used the technique of memory palace and it helped a LOT for me to understand a book that I am reading. I first read each chapter (which is 12 pages long) and tried to locate the most unusual or unexpected details in my home. Because my home is 3 stories, I was able to locate each chapter on each floor and the other chapter in the entrance of my home. Therefore, part 1 of my book was complete (there are three parts). I then repeated the steps with each chapter by using Google Earth, etc. Now I can build a clear summary of the entire book without having to do a lot of writing and visualize in a aspect that suits me.
What he should mention is that you will remember this information forever, this is not a ''memorize fast'' technique , its a ''remember this information forever'' technique, if you force yourself into learning something for a test etc. you will remember it for 1 or 2 days and then forget most of that information. But with this for example. he will remember these 2 pages on the fly for the rest of his life. It's like a photographic memory, but compared to people with actual photographic memory , its like they have a 2000$ canon camera, and you have an old fashion hard to use camera that takes forever to take a picture.
4:14 He still spent 3-4 hours a day practicing, and 4 days to memorize the whole thing. Pretty sure someone out there is able to learn the entire chapter without this memory palace
My mom would always make poems, songs, sayings, etc. I could spell Madagascar at age 4 because she taught me to remember the saying "Mad! A gas car?" like someone who's never seen a motor vehicle running on gasoline before might say. And when I had a spelling test in like 3rd grade and needed to remember how to spell island, she talk me to think of myself pointing from a boat on the ocean and saying "that IS LAND!". She even wrote a song about my cousins so I could remember all their names, as one aunt has 6 kids. That's just how me and my mom retained information. We would apply it to something unique yet familiar. Like the poem itself is unique and not like any other sayings, so I remember it for that. But I also remember it because it applies to something I already know. I can spell "mad" "a" "gas" and car. So I know how to spell Madagascar. I know how to spell "is" and "land" so I know how to spell island.
Using a slightly different method, I memorized this same text in roughly 3 hours. 1. KEYWORD IN LOCI- First, pick one keyword per line, and place them in your memory palace (as shown in the video). 2. PARAPHRASE TEST- Paraphrase each word by replacing it with another English word. Replace only verbs nouns adjectives etc. No need to paraphrase articles and prepositions like - the, and, of, they. THEN recall the real words while try looking at this (Tip: while attempting this, when you get stuck, use the FIRST LETTER TEST below as an hint, before checking the real text). 3. FIRST LETTER TEST - write out first letter initials of the text. THEN recall the real words while looking at this. 4. OFF HEAD - By now, it is very familiar and easy to recall by heart. Use the keywords in the memory palace to guide you. Practice, practice, practice. Start with something small and amaze yourself. For relatively short poems, You can even do it without the first step (ie. memory palace). Also, It works better if you put the FIRST LETTER TEST and PARAPHRASE TEST side by side ie. First line of PARAPHRASE on left side of a table, and first line of INITIALS on the right. Repeat one test till it becomes easy, before moving to the next test. Hope this helps. Cheers 🥂. Happy memorizing
I've memorized pages of pure textual information by using jingles and associations. Grouping similar concepts helps as well. Then assign the group a mnemonic, like a phrase or an acronym, and go from there. It takes more time to recall information this way, but it helps you store more information with significantly less work than going through this memory palace technique. Also, a memory palace only works when one wants to recall sequential information. It wouldn't be useful to me as a science student since I'm required to recall information in its bits and pieces as asked. But if you're an actor or need to present a speech, this could be a great way to ditch the cue cards.
I don't know much about techniques....but I always remember things like (for exam)....visualizing the pages....couple reading and when you see question that page can be visualized in mind...it's really easy studying diagrams....
In Vietnam, we have to study 4-5 pages from history textbook for tests, we don't normally use any kind of memorizing technique, the fear of the upcoming test just make us stressful but somehow it makes our brain works more efficiently and we're able memorized all the pages the night after the test.
Many Muslims memorize the entire Qur'an, it's commentary, volumes of Hadith, and other texts. Out entire methodology of education is based upon memorization or "Hifdh" (dh pronounced like th in the)
3thman xx , the śrutis of Hinduism called the Vedas were transmitting exact memorization of their knowledge from generation to generation thousands of years before the Qur'an existed. Many oral traditions of the world were passed down because their were nemonics built in, such as alliteration, repetition, assonance, and proverbial sayings. This video is about a nemonic used for memorizing data that has no such built-in nemonic. It's known as The Method of Loci, aka "Mind Palace".
the simple answer is to give meaning to whatever it is you're memorizing. the reason most of the time we forget is because our mind finds it currently redundant to keep the memory so if you give important meaning to it like how our semantic network works in our minds, then its easier to memorize.
Is this technique used by people who have memorized and can recite the Quran? For those not in the know, there are several people throughout the world, hundreds even, that have memorized and can recite 800 (ish) pages of Arabic scripture. Personally, I have been able to hear recitations and then recite said recitation but it only gets me so far...a page max for me. In proper Arabic recitation, you need to have proper enunciation...kind of like the ah, ih, eh, ou's of English. But still...800 pages?
I memorized an entire monologue and a page-long introduction to said monologue in two days. I read it over and over and listened to an audio recording of me saying it.
I like how this video actually shows how to memorize words and sentences instead of numbers like most people do. This helps a lot with people who have non-math related data to remember
Sixteen hours to memorize 38 sentences?? And you had to go through a crap load of mental gymnastics to do it? How long would it take to memorize a speech? 57 years?
Arthur King Say that to a live actor memorizing hundreds of lines out of Shakespeare! Personally, I'd me more impressed with someone being able to give an hour long speech without reading off paper vs. memorizing 38 lines from someone's favorite book. Just think about how many people have memorized lines of a music album word for word... it's not hard.
my friend does the memory palace thing! I've never been able to do it, but that's mainly because she does multiple languages, in which she has to memorize words and definitions, but my educational focus is on math and science, where you have to know how to apply things, not just memorize. If you want to truly understand something complex, ie the history of human understanding of atoms, the best is to try to teach it. explain it to your mom, draw out diagrams of it for your brother, hell, lecture your dog about Rutherford is you have to! if you can explain it to someone else, you understand it better.
I use hamilton songs in social studies, works wonderfully and I've actually gotten two questions wrong, but by listening to the song, changed them both to the write answers
this seems kinda funny to me :D Im an actress so Im used to memmorising pages and pages worth of text. This chapter would take me maybe two hours to know it by heart. I understand that some people just arent used to it, but it's still funny that he used mind palace for this amount of text and it took him 4 days. Mind palaces are incredible, but for this purpose I would choose to simply break it down, understand the words and repeat it many times in 3-4 sentence segments.
This worked in my room amazingly. I managed to memorize a 15-line paragraph for my Arabic aural presentation in under an hour. I didn't do the exaggerated imagery bit tho, I just assigned a random action (e.g. waving arms or squats) to each area in my room and repeated the gesture again and again when I'm in that area. Made me look like an idiot, but works like a charm.
CosmicJosh Gaming you should remember your own room...this can be your palace already...that room can have like 20 to 30 objects if it is big enough....
I memorized the first 10,000 decimal places of pi using the method of loci. It's actually ridiculously easy to do with numbers because you only need to use 10 different archetypal images. And not only could I recall them in order I could start at any place I wanted and even recall them backward! It'll make you fell like some kind of genius, lol. But I'd suggest that you put some thought into your images. I ran into a problem when I used words that rhymed with each number. For example, I used an image of a door for number 4. Then I found it easy to place 4s on the doors in each room. But that wound up confusing me when I didn't have 4s available when I got to a door or had a 4 shortly before a door. Using rhymes does help, just be careful not use things that pop up frequently. Another thing is to be careful when using things in your palace that pop up over and over like kitchen cabinets, windows, trees, ect. I would place things inside of the cabinets but wind up associating the images I placed in the 3rd cabinet with the images from the 2nd etc. One more thing, don't feel like you have to stay inside your palace. Venture out, walk around the yard outside or take a drive that you're familiar with to another palace or go to a familiar park. This is all about exercising your imagination so don't hold back. If anyone is really interested in this I would suggest they read Moonwalking with Einstein, it'll blow you away.
I think for some people, context (and not the context referred to in this video) is important. I could learn this chapter rote through repetition easier. However, a mind palace is absolutely fantastic for learning disparate, tangibly unrelated bits of information. A mind palace makes remembering the order of a shuffled deck of cards remarkably easy. Capitals of countries, it's not so effective. There are variations of the mind palace and those who use them all, understand the contexts which they should be used. And a good memory doesn't make you more intelligent. Oh, how I wish memorising pi to 20 digits made me smart enough to be able to use that info. The curse of mediocrity. Just smart enough to know I'm not smart enough.
I memorized 65 lines of The Iliad in Greek for a test using this method. i did it in 6 hours, got the highest score on the test. So this works.
nebbykoo then what? can you recite them now?
I only know one of the first words (if not the first, I don't know) which is "Menin" that means "anger" and it is also the subject of the Iliad: Achilles's anger ;)
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I did this for parts of Julius Caesar and it's been a long ass time but I can remember it clearly.
Thuy Nguyen
I tried method too and it worked on my test.
No I can't recite what I have learned now because I ionically have forgotten it.
The reason being is that I stopped re-visiting the memory palaces I made which were made specifically for the test.
I'm confident that if the Palaces are revisited regularly they won't be easily forgotten.
Which would be no where near as difficult as bland rote memorization.
I wish I could remember the entire Bee Movie script
EdenXIX are you her little...bed bug
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Ooh, black and yellow!
Let's shake it up a little.
According to all known laws of aviation...
EdenXIX You could watch the movie till you know all the lines? 🙂
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Too bad i won't remember this video later on
Not A Potato tf are you then??
so add it to your watch later thing like i did
william Murdoch dude it's a joke.
william Murdoch alright. You were just trying to help.
Not A Potato
Guys, he memorized it word for word, that's why it took so long.... What people usually do when employing this technique is creating one or two images per paragraph to remember the main idea, which of course is much, much faster. I don't doubt people who say they've memorized more pages in less time than him, but I highly doubt it was word for word like he did.
Not really relevant, in my middle school and highschool years we had to memorize the definitions and explanations word by word, and it too less than 4hrs for like 90% of the subjects
I can’t read
Maybe he should learn from the people that memorize the most memorized book in the world: the quran. Word by word by Millions from beginning to end
@@Badro29 my mom is trying to memorize it and struggling, I was explaining to her this method ans hoping it can help her
memory palace sounds like something from sherlock
The last episode of season 3 of Sherlock talks about it.
The series "mentalist" teaches it too. I learn it from there.
because it was in Sherlock :D At least in the BBC series.
SmartiePants hannibal too 🍽🍽
The memory palace was invented in ancient Greece. Probably by a poet called Simonides. It's not _from_ Sherlock. It is the other way around.
oh my gosh JUST 3 MORE DAYS UNTIL SEASON 4 OF SHERLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! :D
sorry lol i'm just a little excited
I read an interesting book called 'Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering' about the history of memory techniques and the memory championships people compete in. At the end of the book, the irony was noted that, despite winning medals, these people forget the same things in the same amounts in everyday life as the rest of us unless they completely commit to preparing mind palaces in advance for whatever it is they want to remember.
No technique is perfect, memory palaces work well for long content that needs to be known by heart and where you have at least some time to remember it. You can see it as a tool, if your exams or work require you to know a lot of stuff by heart (eg. medicine, history) this might be something to think about. But it is also an expensive tool (requires time, effort, repetition, creativity) that's maybe not so useful for other goals, where other tools and mnemonics are more appropriate (or goold old testing yourself). Also, contaminations can occur (you could mix up your palaces or mental images) and remembering is still a long way from understanding & applying.
Basically if it works it works. Don't think anything as easy, for that's a true student learner. Right, no technique is perfect.
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Um I don’t know what u saying me reading is bad so what about donkeys
This actually works, I basically memorised 5 essays about 1200 words each (all up 6000 words) that were all cemented in my head. Through vigorous repetition it took about 1-2 hours to memorise one essay, and I did this through basically using a section of my house and assigning words to objects (similar to what he did) but more physical. After about a week the 6000 words were all in my head. The great thing about this is, you can pick up from any section of the essay/text without trouble. It helped me SO much in exams, and after the whole experimentation I was absolutely amazed at how much m e m o r y capacity your brain actually has. You can even remember certain things months after you’ve memorised them.
Was anyone else thinking of Sherlock Holmes
sophie m just joking
sophie m yeah I was
huge nerd ,o
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Yeah
Memory Palace sounds like a Chinese restaurant
Dude what
Alex Pitti lol
good idea, someone should open a Chinese Restaurant with the name Memory Palace
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YES this does work, I used it to memorise all my quotes for essays in English during my final year. Also, in Chemistry class in my final year, I took about 40-50 minutes, using this technique, to remember all the cations and anions we had to memorise, and their charges (eg. Rubidium = Rb+, Nickel = Ni2+, Sulfite = SO32-). There were about 60 of these cations and anions.
Hahah of you have a table of mendeljev this is easy
word of advice: remembering everything with memory palace won't help you if you didn't understand the material in the first hand
Dragon377 exactly concept is very important.
In the first "place"...
c'mma in our current time and age if you want to come back to anything immediately，you just look it up on your phone，web or what stored on your personal cloud.
(but if you're talking about recalling things in your dream，I've got no rebuttal for this LOL)
Thank you Christopher.
"Hack" your memory... Stop using that word!
cravenjooooooooooooo Ed
"I cannot hack my memory. I have no axe!"
When you tap into your brain's software to unlock functionality a common user wouldn't have, hacking is a pretty good term for it.
thorr18BEM you have sent a response to almost every comment I've seen
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It's a worn out term, the person is saying.
The next step up is called "Roman Rooms", essentially you create the location in your head, rather than using a real location, you imagine entirely fictional areas. I use it to solve larger size Rubik's cubes blind folded, (ie. 8x8x8 cubes).
Frederick Abel I am looking into beginning blindsolving 3x3x3s. right now, I know LBL and am getting into 45-ish 4LLL. do you have a preferred method? I just started learning about the memorization schemes today. also, do you have any videos that might help me?
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So... a mind palace, right?
Kittythecat No, similar, but different.
Ammm.. it would take me two hours to memorize that chapter without any palaces.
You must be a real genius
Phoenixpi Just like all my classmates and pretty much every person I know.
poohoff Are you being sarcastic?
No, I'm not. It took the guy four days to memorize 38 sentences. Back in middle school we had to learn and recite poems of that length on a regular basis, and of course it'd always be left for the night before.
You know poems are similar to songs in that they have a rhythm, or you can easily give it one, which can definitely make it easier to remember that as opposed to a novel or a chapter. Yeah, he used it to remember a page of text, but you gotta start somewhere if it's something new to you, like he said was new to him. And everyone has different methods to remember things as well as different abilities to retain information, so perhaps this doesn't apply to you, but I'm glad you let everyone know you're better than him.
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This makes sense. I always pace around my entire house while studying for exams. now I understand why my method works so well. I can literally memorize anything in a matter of minutes to hours.
Anyone thinking of the mind palace from Sherlock?
yap m8
I’ve memorised blank verse and it didn’t take 3 to 4 hours every day. That sounds like a very inefficient approach imho.
I use mnemonics, too, and have read extensively in such methods, though for poetry the basic approach is to first learn by rote each line. Harry Lorayne, a great memoriser, says we use mnemonics to aid the natural memory, not to replace it.
Read each line, look away and repeat, then continue for every other line. Then read two lines, look away and repeat. Do the next two. Etc. Then three, etc. By the time you get to a sweep of six lines you should have it all.
If that chapter is just a page and a half, I reckon I could maybe get it all in an hour. I did Shakespeare’s ‘Thrice the brinded cat had mewd’ full witches’ speech and it took about 30 minutes to memorise completely, with some testing the following day. I then like to revisit it during the week for fun and to really ingrain it. Writing it out, for ingraining the punctuation, is also recommended. (Normally I do a stanza each day, so it’s a fun process for memorising a poem or two each week, rather than a chore.)
I honestly don’t need a memory palace or mnemonic after doing the above, but after the above method you can use a key image per line to fix it in mind. To be honest, the only mnemonic I use is to memorise what poems I have memorised...because the ironic thing is you can forget what poems you have stored away if you don’t place the beginning of the first line in your palace.
But don’t memorise a book chapter; memorise poetry. Makes more sense. No one wants a book recited, and it’s more fun to visit poems in your mind.
I'm sure this would be great for learning things that you need to recall linearly (like the lines in a poem)
But would it work for things you need to call off the top of your head?
Gawsome No, to best recall things off the top of your head, you would need to use retrieval cues (look it up for further detail) basically, they're details that help you remember things in your long term memory. If i say, fruit, you will most likely picture/recall an apple or orange, etc
Gawsome , yes. The version of this that uses a path or well known route is for linear recollection, but the version that references rooms in a palace leverages spatial memory to index the contents of the rooms. You don't go through the house linearly. You go to the room you need and look in the spot where you kept it.
rednax well you can create infinite ammount of rooms in your palace/memory place, the thing is how quickly can you get to then when you need them. Regardless if you need info now or later it always stays there.
Fastest way is to have multiple floors with an elevator. :)
@@OFFICALMENOFCULTURE wrong, the fastest way is to just think about it and go. When you repeat the process of remembering the path enough times you intinctively know where to look. Just like you know where your desk is in your office or refrigerator at home.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223472535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895 (first 190 digits of pi) easy.
Sorry, but the point was that it was supposed to be efficient. Spending 3-4 hours per day practicing for 4 days does not sound efficient. That sounds like brute force.
Krombopulos Michael well maybe his example was not the greatest but it has been shown to work in other cases. The point is to link the sequence to a thought that is easy to remember.
Why don't you try it yourself and see if you like the technique or not?
Krombopulos Michael That would be about a half hour per line. That's pretty good, considering how complicated each sentence was.
Scratchyone Scratchyone Would this be a good way to learn basics for another language? I've always been bad in classes so I never learn enough
To be honest I'm not sure, since I haven't tried it yet, but since you use pictures I would assume you could print out the pictures that symbolize the words. You could maybe even use objects in your home instead of pictures
"I forget somebody's name five seconds after I meet them."
I have been living with my roommate for almost a week now but I can't remember his name and I'm too embarrassed to ask him his name.
4:00 Joss being bae af
Always
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There's a memory championship? I never knew!
I knew about it, but I forgot.
I knew that, but I forgot.
He memorized 1 and a half pages not a chapter.
George A. 2:10 is a chapter
A chapter is whatever the author says the chapter is.
Natai KO Yeah it's a chapter, but it's a little clickbaity. When you think of a chapter you think like 20 pages.
small font tho
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I need to memorize chapters of the Quran for Arabic school but my memory sucks so this better help me or else I'll be a disappointment.
Yusra l , one user of this method memorized Pi to 65,536 digits, so yes you could successfully waste your time memorizing religious texts with it.
Baron Sengir , haha, she gonna go bankrupt.
Baron Sengir i dnt get paid n ive dun 3 parahs... lyf hurts... but i dnt mind tbh 🙃
+thorr18BEM lol 2^16 what a nerd
It's OK take it slow
learn an ayah a day
your memory will improve with time
I'm assuming you're under 20.
old age will ruin your memory
so don't procrastinate lol
Memory palace? Mind palaces are cooler, cause, Sherlock.
they also have more drugs
I've realised that I'm pretty good at memorizing things, and it's because when I'm reading something I always tend to visualise it effortlessly. So when I have to recall that bit of information, my mind simply brings up the image that I made up in my mind earlier, and I instantly remember what I had read!
3-4 hours for 4 days to memorize two pages? It sounds like time wasting technique. I think that students who use mnemonic technic to memorize, are better for the simple reason that they put more effort to memorize compared to other students.
Alexqndr , you don't think the studies he cited accounted for that? Also, he said this works for special ed students and for himself who claims to have especially bad memory.
He was learning how to memorize for the first time. I think it would work much better with each use.
The more you use it and get an understanding for it, the easier it gets. It's like if you're taking notes, after years of taking notes, do you find your self having a much easier time then when you first started?
No one said it works for everyone, just that it does work for a good portion of people. It plays to the human's brains strengths, but is only useful if given time and effort.
No one rode their bike the first day they got it.
People will cite whatever hack studies will back up their claim. Remember the studies that showed "brain-games" (luminosity apps) would improve memory? Until the scientific community had enough and did actual peer reviewed research with larger sample sizes?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/
Anyway, 4 days to memorize 1 1/2 pages verbatim is borderline ineffective regardless of technique. If you work in an industry that requires such skills, editor, lawyer, etc you may have a hard time
Prince Blake , works fine for lawyers. Cicero was a successful lawyer who wrote about this method in his book, in addition to his time as Consul of Rome. The efficacy of this technique has been well established in the time since then.
I used this to memorize 115 places of pi for a competition in 6th grade. I’m about to turn 21 and I still remember 55 digits, so yeah it works pretty well, even in the long term, although some more complicated things might fade a bit over time without consistent recall
Finally, I have found someone like me, who forgets people's names after 5 seconds of hearing.
Nothing big, many muslims have memorized the entire Quran
@Nicholas Pagano who said that's the only book they read?
@Nicholas Pagano Can you memorize a chinese book which consists of over 70000 words while not speaking chinese?
@Nicholas Pagano well why don't you memorize an entire book that's written in your secondary language and then we'll talk. Don't hate when you can't even do it
By brute force, really. Saying the verses over and over again. Not very efficient.
@@humanalltoohuman that's a wild assumption probably coming out of your hate for a religion and intolerance towards people who are different to you. You sound like a very bad person to be around.
I usually 'sing' the phrases in my head so I could remember stuff, like someone's phone number.
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Like:
ZERROOOO EEEEIIIIIGHTT NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH
Interesting...
Step 1: clear schedule
Step 2: prepare for loss of street cred
Step 3: read the chapter a bazillion times
Step 4: ask self why you wasted so much of your life on this task
Step 5: stages of grief
Rinse and repeat
My palace is a studio apartment. This teqnique is classist. I can only remember small phrases.
use your uni or your job or a street or what ever
use the objects in the apartment
Warmed up my heart seeing all of you Vox editors I usually see in separate videos, now in one single room smiling at you :) Great job!
That's nothing . I memorized 5 whole books for my final exams in Greece . They basically don't want you to understand what the book says but seriously just know the books by heart. And this is what we are evaluated upon .
In my school what ever the books says doesn't matter, we're tested on meaning and other devices.
pbananah1 what do you mean ? In Greece ?
Wow. That is extremely impressive. Did you do anything to help you memorize them?
We have an old saying in Greece. ''Repitation is the mother of learning'' if that can be translated well enough. So yeah , i kept repeting whole pages until i knew the by heart. Sometimes i linked spesific photoes that were either in the book or i was finding the on google with spesific pages too so that i could remember better where was what .Another thing . When a phrase was too complicated i used to make acronyms . Or i was reading out loud for me to hear what i should memorize later. everywere i was i carried one of those books and whenever i didnt remember something well enough i used to pick ou the book and read it again, even inside the bus. I seemed like a nerd.. I am telling you , this year was a true torture. And you want to hear the best one? I failed so have to try again this year . But now it si so much easyer... Wish me luck..
Sounds like everyone does that, unless you have synesthesia
Not a perfect technique for textual memory -though it worked. But I used this technique in medical school and it was a god send. I learned all of my pharmacology by putting the medicatiions by class into different rooms in my house. In one short evening I was able to learn the entire semester of pharmacology. The amazing thing is that once you establish the spots in the palace you can add endless detail to the facts you know. At exam time I was confident that I knew EVERTHING they were able to ask. It works great for memorizing lists etc.
so pretty much visual learning.
mk17173n , spatial memory is a different thing than visual processing.
its all visual processing . the best mathematicians and scientists in the world see things as pictures rather then numbers or memorization. When they studied Albert Einstein's brain the part of his brain responsible for imagination and visualizing information was more developed then regular people. He visualized scenarios using formulas and ideas. All this is doing is using tricks to bring about memorization. I always thought this was regular way of memorizing things.
mk17173n , this isn't about synesthesia either. The mind palace is about leveraging spatial memory in conjunction with visual. This is because the spatial memory is powerful. Useful when wandering across the savanna trying to remember where that watering hole was you visited when you were a kid :) Elephants do that with their spatial memory, not visual, thus the "never forgets", but ours is also powerful.
its a mind hack but it doesn't last or is useful in long term memorization.
mk17173n I'm a visual learner (at least I was told I was). Not a spatial person AT ALL.
That seems really elaborate to memorize something. Honestly, reading something over and over works just as well, or just have what you wanna memorize recorded and listening to it.
so thats the memory palace in sherlock holmes
Literally spacing out during the video... I wanna cry
its called the "method of loci"
HajoBenzin1 memory palace is for people who know the method of loci memory palace is good if u want to memorize much more things
if you want to memorize anything (paragraphs and pages from poetry to scriptures)
try this:
First, take keywords from a text.
second, make pictures for those keywords
third put the keywords around your home
fourth practice repeating the text a little bit
fifth practice recalling the text about 20+ times
sixth delete the images you made
finally, you have it all verbatim memorized for a very long long time.
(optional) spaced recalling/review/repetition.
3-4h a day for 4 days for 1.5 pages of text?!? Soooo useful...
ReviewTube well, he did say he had bad memory. For you it might take way less time than him.
ReviewTube FR, I would rather copy the whole chapter over and over again
ReviewTube exactly what I was thinking
ReviewTube
You are missing the point. Memory palaces are not meant to be fast. It takes much time to create vivid imagery and virtual links, that's true. The goal of it is to memorize it long term and kind of brand it into your brain. It's not effortless or particular efficient, but effective.
I know, but he was using too many places and too many images for not a lot of information, aside from taking a really long time to learn it. All I'm saying is that the video is misleading, like you said, memory palaces should be used to memorize stuff long term and be able to use it whenever and the video presented that amazing learning power as something used to learn 1.5 pages of text in 4 days.
I watched this completely invested until I remembered that I've memorised and performed Shakespeare before. That's me ironically forgetting that I have good memory.
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Good to see no one is asking any practical questions here. I don’t understand how to break up the chunks: one image for a whole sentence? Even if that gets you the key words, what about the exact sequence? How does the image help with that?
Why tho?...
rage comics lol
Jarl Ballin' U should be watching GamerPoop
Jarl Ballin' , to demonstrate his experience trying a mnemonic method to overcome his terrible memory.
you know what i'm sayin?
google trumps memory
I have my 1st semester exams in February. I'm so glad I procrastinated onto this video.
I'm disabled and get brain fog and this is how I got through high school lol and probably how I'll get through university
Emy Anderson what is that ?
Emy Anderson Post viral fatigue?
Sherlockians, where are you at?!
andslove88 Over here
andslove88 what is that?
Aye!
Sherlockians are having imaginary sex with themselves.
"Just 3-4 hours a day"
I will attest first hand that these memory techniques totally work. I have memorized one hundred Peg words, which took me a couple months. But now I can memorize a list of 100 objects in and out of order. Which is pretty cool.
Too bad I have no visual memory to speak of. I can't even recall my first girl friend's hair color, let alone anything about our first kiss. And although every room in my apartment has a different color, if you asked me outside of my apartment I would probably mess them up. On the bright side, I can still recite the first scene from Macbeth which I memorized by "brute force" in less than an hour more than a decade ago.
frankbauerful , you can still leverage the extreme power of spatial memory. The video is about the Method of Loci, which means location, as in spatial memory. It's only partly visual memory and emotional is the third thing you can try to mix in.
Different people can learn things through different means. The annoying aspect of this video that it didn't touch on is that this is best for the more imaginative people. There are other methods, that whilst similar, are more personalized depending on the person. You just have to find the one that actually fits your preferred learning method.
Thank you so much for the video! I used the technique of memory palace and it helped a LOT for me to understand a book that I am reading. I first read each chapter (which is 12 pages long) and tried to locate the most unusual or unexpected details in my home. Because my home is 3 stories, I was able to locate each chapter on each floor and the other chapter in the entrance of my home. Therefore, part 1 of my book was complete (there are three parts). I then repeated the steps with each chapter by using Google Earth, etc. Now I can build a clear summary of the entire book without having to do a lot of writing and visualize in a aspect that suits me.
"we can easily remember faces"
people with face blindness:
What he should mention is that you will remember this information forever, this is not a ''memorize fast'' technique , its a ''remember this information forever'' technique, if you force yourself into learning something for a test etc. you will remember it for 1 or 2 days and then forget most of that information. But with this for example. he will remember these 2 pages on the fly for the rest of his life. It's like a photographic memory, but compared to people with actual photographic memory , its like they have a 2000$ canon camera, and you have an old fashion hard to use camera that takes forever to take a picture.
DragTV definitely can memory fast if you are good at imagine things...easy convert and put.....
I've been using this technique without knowing 😂 I thought everybody did this...
😂😂😂😂 hilarious
4:14 He still spent 3-4 hours a day practicing, and 4 days to memorize the whole thing. Pretty sure someone out there is able to learn the entire chapter without this memory palace
So he studied anywhere from 12 to 16 hours... to memorize a single page of text?
idk but to memorize half of the periodic table in order, i took a 7 hour study session
you should have listened to asapscience's periodic table song. songs make memorization much easier
Gabriel Gutierrez yes, I memorized the first 20 in 2 hours with that song
One of the best books I read this year, Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer.
Love Vox! I actually learned about this reading the fantastic "Moonwalking with Einstein" a few years back - I encourage everyone to read it!
My mom would always make poems, songs, sayings, etc. I could spell Madagascar at age 4 because she taught me to remember the saying "Mad! A gas car?" like someone who's never seen a motor vehicle running on gasoline before might say. And when I had a spelling test in like 3rd grade and needed to remember how to spell island, she talk me to think of myself pointing from a boat on the ocean and saying "that IS LAND!". She even wrote a song about my cousins so I could remember all their names, as one aunt has 6 kids. That's just how me and my mom retained information. We would apply it to something unique yet familiar. Like the poem itself is unique and not like any other sayings, so I remember it for that. But I also remember it because it applies to something I already know. I can spell "mad" "a" "gas" and car. So I know how to spell Madagascar. I know how to spell "is" and "land" so I know how to spell island.
Using a slightly different method, I memorized this same text in roughly 3 hours.
1. KEYWORD IN LOCI- First, pick one keyword per line, and place them in your memory palace (as shown in the video).
2. PARAPHRASE TEST- Paraphrase each word by replacing it with another English word. Replace only verbs nouns adjectives etc. No need to paraphrase articles and prepositions like - the, and, of, they. THEN recall the real words while try looking at this (Tip: while attempting this, when you get stuck, use the FIRST LETTER TEST below as an hint, before checking the real text).
3. FIRST LETTER TEST - write out first letter initials of the text. THEN recall the real words while looking at this.
4. OFF HEAD - By now, it is very familiar and easy to recall by heart. Use the keywords in the memory palace to guide you. Practice, practice, practice.
Start with something small and amaze yourself. For relatively short poems, You can even do it without the first step (ie. memory palace). Also, It works better if you put the FIRST LETTER TEST and PARAPHRASE TEST side by side ie. First line of PARAPHRASE on left side of a table, and first line of INITIALS on the right.
Repeat one test till it becomes easy, before moving to the next test.
Hope this helps. Cheers 🥂. Happy memorizing
I've memorized pages of pure textual information by using jingles and associations. Grouping similar concepts helps as well. Then assign the group a mnemonic, like a phrase or an acronym, and go from there. It takes more time to recall information this way, but it helps you store more information with significantly less work than going through this memory palace technique. Also, a memory palace only works when one wants to recall sequential information. It wouldn't be useful to me as a science student since I'm required to recall information in its bits and pieces as asked. But if you're an actor or need to present a speech, this could be a great way to ditch the cue cards.
I know how something called "Time" which you certainly have
I don't know much about techniques....but I always remember things like (for exam)....visualizing the pages....couple reading and when you see question that page can be visualized in mind...it's really easy studying diagrams....
Like that key and peele skit in the parking garage.
In Vietnam, we have to study 4-5 pages from history textbook for tests, we don't normally use any kind of memorizing technique, the fear of the upcoming test just make us stressful but somehow it makes our brain works more efficiently and we're able memorized all the pages the night after the test.
People memorize the entire Book, I have chains that memorize the entire Quran, and God willing I will too one day.
Many Muslims memorize the entire Qur'an, it's commentary, volumes of Hadith, and other texts. Out entire methodology of education is based upon memorization or "Hifdh" (dh pronounced like th in the)
Any Sherlock fans?
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Shaggy Rogers tomorrow!
ThatClassy Girl I loved the first episode of series 4 did you?
I've been using memory palaces to cram for tests, and I've gotten 100% on most of them
There are a good number of Muslims who memorize the whole Qur'an.
it's all about practicing it in a daily basis.
3thman xx , the śrutis of Hinduism called the Vedas were transmitting exact memorization of their knowledge from generation to generation thousands of years before the Qur'an existed. Many oral traditions of the world were passed down because their were nemonics built in, such as alliteration, repetition, assonance, and proverbial sayings. This video is about a nemonic used for memorizing data that has no such built-in nemonic. It's known as The Method of Loci, aka "Mind Palace".
thorr18BEM Why are you copying the same comment here and there?
Yeah that's what I do to improvise my memorization. What do I use my memorization for? To memorize new ayat and surat of the Al Quran
the simple answer is to give meaning to whatever it is you're memorizing. the reason most of the time we forget is because our mind finds it currently redundant to keep the memory so if you give important meaning to it like how our semantic network works in our minds, then its easier to memorize.
Pretty shitty thing to force your co-workers to listen to you recite text.
was expecting everyone to fall a sleep at end xD
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LMAO
The method is also called the "loci" method, from the Latin "loci" for place, from where we get "location".
I'm going to memorize the whole "Robbie Rotten's Dream Team" Lazytown episode
Its a piece of cake
A room filled with some of the greatest Journalists and reporters of our decade. O.O flippin amazin and I applaud you guys for your works :D
Is this technique used by people who have memorized and can recite the Quran? For those not in the know, there are several people throughout the world, hundreds even, that have memorized and can recite 800 (ish) pages of Arabic scripture. Personally, I have been able to hear recitations and then recite said recitation but it only gets me so far...a page max for me. In proper Arabic recitation, you need to have proper enunciation...kind of like the ah, ih, eh, ou's of English. But still...800 pages?
Should have expected these kind of comments. Really stupid of me.
Hushoo 100s? More like thousands and thousands, Ik a lot of people who memorized the whole thing.
Baron Sengir the Quran is the scripture of the muslim god's will.
I memorized an entire monologue and a page-long introduction to said monologue in two days. I read it over and over and listened to an audio recording of me saying it.
I'd like to know the steps from remembering the images (John Waters etc.) to knowing each sentence word-for-word.
I like how this video actually shows how to memorize words and sentences instead of numbers like most people do. This helps a lot with people who have non-math related data to remember
Sixteen hours to memorize 38 sentences?? And you had to go through a crap load of mental gymnastics to do it?
How long would it take to memorize a speech? 57 years?
InvisiMan2006 You don't memorize a speech, you understand the speech and enounce it later, the words don't have to be exact
Arthur King Say that to a live actor memorizing hundreds of lines out of Shakespeare! Personally, I'd me more impressed with someone being able to give an hour long speech without reading off paper vs. memorizing 38 lines from someone's favorite book.
Just think about how many people have memorized lines of a music album word for word... it's not hard.
my friend does the memory palace thing! I've never been able to do it, but that's mainly because she does multiple languages, in which she has to memorize words and definitions, but my educational focus is on math and science, where you have to know how to apply things, not just memorize. If you want to truly understand something complex, ie the history of human understanding of atoms, the best is to try to teach it. explain it to your mom, draw out diagrams of it for your brother, hell, lecture your dog about Rutherford is you have to! if you can explain it to someone else, you understand it better.
Sherlock explained
I was really hoping the chapter would be:
"and methodically knocking people’s hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can"
Good for you. All I care is why, not how.
Yout Tuka to demonstrate his experience trying a mnemonic method?
I've first learned about this method in "Hannibal" novel. Dr. Lecter used it to remember everything he needed.
I memorise stuff using songs. It's pretty cool actually cus my teachers let us play music during a test
I use hamilton songs in social studies, works wonderfully and I've actually gotten two questions wrong, but by listening to the song, changed them both to the write answers
this seems kinda funny to me :D Im an actress so Im used to memmorising pages and pages worth of text. This chapter would take me maybe two hours to know it by heart. I understand that some people just arent used to it, but it's still funny that he used mind palace for this amount of text and it took him 4 days. Mind palaces are incredible, but for this purpose I would choose to simply break it down, understand the words and repeat it many times in 3-4 sentence segments.
I do this for school, it works
gojo bojo I try to not only create an image but like an interactive part of a story along the path in the palace
try to do that in college where u have to memorize 12 chapters full with their elements and boring details lel
This worked in my room amazingly. I managed to memorize a 15-line paragraph for my Arabic aural presentation in under an hour. I didn't do the exaggerated imagery bit tho, I just assigned a random action (e.g. waving arms or squats) to each area in my room and repeated the gesture again and again when I'm in that area. Made me look like an idiot, but works like a charm.
Yea, I know this technique. Thomas Jefferson actually used a similar way to memorize his speeches.
"We're good at remembering faces"
You don't know me at all.
Trueeeeeeee
but i cant remember 38 pictures
CosmicJosh Gaming you should remember your own room...this can be your palace already...that room can have like 20 to 30 objects if it is big enough....
I memorized the first 10,000 decimal places of pi using the method of loci. It's actually ridiculously easy to do with numbers because you only need to use 10 different archetypal images. And not only could I recall them in order I could start at any place I wanted and even recall them backward! It'll make you fell like some kind of genius, lol.
But I'd suggest that you put some thought into your images. I ran into a problem when I used words that rhymed with each number. For example, I used an image of a door for number 4. Then I found it easy to place 4s on the doors in each room. But that wound up confusing me when I didn't have 4s available when I got to a door or had a 4 shortly before a door. Using rhymes does help, just be careful not use things that pop up frequently.
Another thing is to be careful when using things in your palace that pop up over and over like kitchen cabinets, windows, trees, ect. I would place things inside of the cabinets but wind up associating the images I placed in the 3rd cabinet with the images from the 2nd etc.
One more thing, don't feel like you have to stay inside your palace. Venture out, walk around the yard outside or take a drive that you're familiar with to another palace or go to a familiar park. This is all about exercising your imagination so don't hold back.
If anyone is really interested in this I would suggest they read Moonwalking with Einstein, it'll blow you away.
3 or 4 hours everyday for 4 days practising? I could learn it in under that without a memory palace...
I think for some people, context (and not the context referred to in this video) is important. I could learn this chapter rote through repetition easier. However, a mind palace is absolutely fantastic for learning disparate, tangibly unrelated bits of information. A mind palace makes remembering the order of a shuffled deck of cards remarkably easy. Capitals of countries, it's not so effective. There are variations of the mind palace and those who use them all, understand the contexts which they should be used.
And a good memory doesn't make you more intelligent. Oh, how I wish memorising pi to 20 digits made me smart enough to be able to use that info. The curse of mediocrity. Just smart enough to know I'm not smart enough.