I thought this book was very interesting and now I'd like to try using mnemonics to remember as much as possible of what I read. What does lit think of mnemonics and memory palaces?
Is that what this book is about? Just making mnemonics? How disappointing. Fifth grade science teachers give out the same advice, dude.
>>25234396Remember It! is a better book
to be honest i dont really get how this whole system can be used for anything useful like the card tricks I get but I dont really understand how can it be translated to something like physics or biology or medicine Plus they describe using your house as the place to put things in - houses have very limited space so eventually you just run out of place to remember shit
>>25234396>memory palacesmade-up bullshit for tv.
>>25234396I remember this book wasn't very informational, beyond a few tricks.It was a very fun read though. The author hanging out with bold but dorky college nerds was fun. Made me nostalgic for pre-modern times before honest intellectualism was replaced with slacktivism and oppression olympics. I loved how the author aggressivly shits on the guys he follows around too.
I've always thought I had a good memory, and in many ways I do. I recently sat an exam for example with 50 questions, and when I got home I was able to write down 47 of the questions. When I took them into work to show to a colleague who was going to the sit the same exam, he couldn't believe I had memorised it. However, recently I met up with some old friends from highschool. One of them kept referencing things from when we were 11-15 and I had no memory of some of the thing, and other things I could remember but would not have had he said them.
>>25234396I don't know about memory palaces, it's a widely accepted method, so there's probably a lot of validity to it, but it seems like bullshit to me. Something I've been doing to commit information to memory is to generate an AI song using whatever it is I'm looking to memorize as lyrics.It's even more effective when you use a common, popular melody.. Beethoven's 9th, Twinkle Little Stsr, etc.
>>25235587not really. was something practiced by renaissance era rhetoricians
>>25234396I read this book in high school and sunk a fair bit of time into coming up with a system to memorize a shuffled deck of cards for shitty magic tricks. I've forgotten it now, but the general idea was that each card was a person doing an action with an item, and you memorized the cards in chunks of three, and you put those into a memory palace. So like ace of spades/three of hearts/jack of clubs would become Michael Jordan eating a suitcase (on my kitchen table) etc. I had zero showmanship, so the entire trick would be me going>hey wanna see a magic trick>sure>shuffle this deck of cards and give it back to me>okay>alright, lemme check to make sure they're shuffled, now hold onto the deck again>what now>ask me about the trick at the end of school and don't reshuffle themand 2/3rds of the time they'd just forget to ask me lmfao. occasionally they'd remember and I'd rattle off the order and it was pretty fun to watch their faces after 10 or 15 cards in. But mostly I used the Foer book to "study" for tests
memory palaces are definitely real
>>25236921it was real in my mind
>>25235573>houses have very limited space so eventually you just run out of place to remember shitYou can use other locations too. And if that's not enough, you could always use the Link method.
>>25234396>initial read of thumbnail from catalog>Moonwalking with EpsteinI'm going to dial back on politics this summer.
a system to create the images + a system to associate those images with something in your long term memory.
>>25238682Basically this is all there is to it. Most books on mnemonics are just padding.
