My Memory Palace (for temporary lists with 60 items or less) is the apartment I lived with my parents when I was 17. It can be the house where you grew up, the school or college where you studied, the house of a good friend that you used to visit, or even the house you are living in right now. It can be any place that you remember extremely well – a place of which you know the exact layout. Now choose your very first Memory Palace.
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In the next article I will explain how to create a permanent set of pegs (which is the technical term for the images), for now, just get ten famous people and let us move on. If it helps, watch Jonas Von Essen, the 20 world memory champion being slightly embarrassed as he talks about his card memorization technique (at 0:48).Īlso, remember that you do not need to share the details of your Palace with any one, so have fun and experiment.Īt this point, don’t put too much effort into choosing the images, as those will be only used this time. I am completely aware that some people can be embarrassed with the prospect of creating such silly images and scenes. Try also adding people you hate in the middle, such as a politician, or people you admire such as an actor, singer, athlete, or an inspiring historical figure. If you only choose models, you will eventually mix them up. However, even though it is powerful, don’t overdo sex appeal. Sexual attraction is obviously a very powerful force, so you can choose some celebrity you find appealing. Since your goal is to elicit an emotional response, you will get a better result if you choose easily recognizable people about whom you already present some emotional response, even if mild. The human brain has a very strong reaction to other humans and, as far as how your emotional reaction registers in your memory, it does not seem to differentiate much between a person who is actually there and a person you imagine is there. So, what you must do is use images, often people (personally, I prefer public or famous individuals and not personal acquaintances), to increase your emotional responses, as emotions are much easier to remember. Moreover, random items are very hard to remember – so are letters, numbers and random words. The problem with just imagining yourself placing, say, a piece of bread on a kitchen table, is that the image of a piece of bread (probably) does not affect you emotionally – or at all. Unfortunately, back then information was much harder to find, and I had no idea how to actually use a Memory Palace. And then I would be frustrated beyond belief when I realized that while I remembered putting something on the table, I could not remember what it was. When I created my first Palace, I tried to store information by placing the objects I actually wanted to remember (and sometimes even writing notes!) somewhere in my Palace so if I wanted to remember ‘bread’, for example, I would imagine myself placing a piece of bread on a table. #MyMistake1: do not simply imagine yourself placing objects on the Palace. The basic idea behind the Memory technique is almost too simple: First you choose a place that you know very well, then imagine yourself walking around the place you chose and place objects that remind you of the items as you move around.Īnd, although that may sound too simple to register, I was able to completely screw it up the first time(s) I tried it.
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