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Sjur is the author of "How to Build a Memory Palace", and the discussion continues here. Including some bonus material that was left out of the book. This (Locals.com) is both a way to support an independent creator, but also to get your hands on great content on memorization and study techniques.
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We will also talk about efficiency, mind-mapping, and some sensational visualization techniques that memory palace techiques mysteriously leads into. I currently have five titles to be released over the next two years for smaller Amazon Kindle books, and I will discuss much of the content of these books here. One of the books is about how one may quickly memorize Tarot card meanings, and use the deck of Tarot cards as a memory palace in itself. This stems from another book on how to memorize straight playing cards, which is 90% finished. Next after that will be a book on memory maps, which is a type of mind map. Extremely useful for memorizing textbooks based on narrative, like history.
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Here are some links to older books, and other online content on memory:
1) De Umbris Idearum, Francis Yates https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/Bruno/pdf/180229040x.pdf
2) https://artofmemory.com/blog/giordano-brunos-memory-system-130.html
3) The Mind of a Mnemonist, https://shorturl.at/eiwxP
Here are links to posts you may find interesting:
1) The Major System, https://memorypalacetechniques.locals.com/post/498863/the-major-system-objects-1-to-100
Here are some external sites/pages on memory techniques:
1) https://www.academictips.org/memory/index.html
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And if you're interested, I am working on a course on memorizing Tarot card meanings. Check out the Locals page: https://learntarotcardmeanings.locals.com/
Post coming up today on exactly how to extend The Major System...check back a little later.
As mentioned in a few earlier posts I've recently had the idea of extending the Major System.
The Major System is one of the first systems of mnemonic we learn when starting. And it's a brilliant system as it can turn numbers into words, which in turn can be words that are easily visualizable so that we can use them to represent the keywords we wish to remember.
But the second use of The Major system has gone largely unused. And it has to do with using it as a memory palace with its pegs.
In The Major System, each number from one to one hundred is an object that is easily visualized. Each number represents a consonant/phoneme, and words are made accordingly.
By linking one of these numbers to an object representing a keyword you want to remember, you've created a mini memory palace.
The "room" is the number. By linking it (in a mnemonic visualization) to the object representing the number, you've created a mnemonic structure that is easy to recall. By learning all objects from one to one...
The first memory palace you make is typically of the house you currently live in.
The second, third, and fourth could be other houses you know your way around quite well (parents, relatives, friends). You could also start using memory walks. And you can even use walks that you've never walked physically.
Think about it:
One great way of creating more memory palaces is using famous cities that you not necessarily have been to. These days, Google Maps and many of the 4K walking-videos one finds on YouTube, can help in creating/calibrating memory walks. Imagine if you take, say, Paris, New York, and London...find ten walks in each city. Each walk with at least ten satations. They could be famous buildings, shops, landmarks, parks, etc. Just make sure you remember the sequence of landmarks/sations/loci, and you're good to go.
Here are some examples of the 4K walking videos that are on YT now:
London
1) Kensington side streets - Sanpo Stroll:
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