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Post by Sjur Midttun (admin) on Sept 27, 2024 14:58:21 GMT
WHAT IS A MEMORY PALACE
I asked Chat GPT:)
"A memory palace, also known as the method of loci, is a mnemonic device used to enhance memory by associating information with specific physical locations or mental "places." The technique involves visualizing a familiar place, such as your home or a well-known building, and mentally placing items or pieces of information in specific rooms or locations within that space. Later, to recall the information, you mentally "walk" through the memory palace and retrieve the details by revisiting the locations where you placed them.
Here's a basic process for using a memory palace:
Choose a Familiar Location: Pick a place you know well, such as your home, office, or a route you frequently walk.
Identify Key Locations: Mentally walk through the location and select specific spots, like rooms, furniture, or landmarks.
Associate Information with Each Spot: Place vivid, memorable images representing the information you want to remember at each location. The more unusual or striking the image, the better.
Revisit and Walk Through: To recall the information, mentally walk through the palace and "see" the items or images at each location.
The memory palace technique has been used since ancient Greece and remains popular in memory competitions today because of its effectiveness at improving recall, especially for lists, numbers, or sequences."
forza! Sjur Midttun
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Post by Sjur Midttun (admin) on Sept 28, 2024 15:53:59 GMT
One of my own definitions:
Memory palaces are imaginary houses in your mind, where you place images that represent that you wish to memorize. Imagine your own home from the entrance, into the hall, and through the different rooms. Note which objects and furniture are in each room and attach the mental images of objects that represent keywords you wish to memorize, like a shopping list. Place apples on the sofa, bananas on the desk, milk on the bookshelf, coffee in the arm chair, dog food in the lamp, etc, just to show the example of a list where keywords (of a shopping list) are ‘’linked’’ to objects of the room from a memory palace.
How do you start with memory palaces? Classically, a memory palace is a building or house or room.
Just visualizing the home where you live, or that of your parents, or a friend? Or a school, hospital, museum, airport or other institution?
Yes, that could be the case. But the truth about literal memory palaces is that you are limited to most people's homes, which are small for mnemonic learning.
In the old days most people could easily visualize their own farm, say (not that they did), but modern man now lives in three room apartments, or less - micro houses. So, perhaps only one to thirty rooms, in the largest villas, apartments and houses. A little more if you're a royal or a latin american dictator. You can add walks in your neighborhood as extensions to your memory palace. And you could add many objects to a room you have, of course, but larger objects are better in visualization, so space is a sought after commodity.
The way forward is going virtual.
-forza! Sjur Midttun
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