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 hundred, effectively you have created a memory palace with 100 loci, or pegs. Not bad, as this feat can be learned by any beginner in a matter of hours.
However, The Major System can be expanded even further. And this is something I haven't seen other writers on memorization techniques talk about.
The thing is, when we visualize objects in The Major System, in 60 to 70% of the cases you will also be easily able to associate a place with your image. It has to do with the images that your own/true memory serves you as you try to actively visualize objects. If you use this, as mentioned, you will relatively quickly be able to associate a location for each of the objects from one to one hundred.
And each of these locations, in themselves, could have 10, or more pegs themselves.
Meaning...
... that most beginners of memorization techniques could have a giant memory palace with 1000 pegs spread out over 100 rooms, which can be sorted and memorized in floors to easily know which type of data is in which rooms!
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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:
2) ...
