I decided to do a series of posts on a number of useful memory strategies, and this is the first. It is one of my favorite memory strategies, as it is quite simple and very visual.
It's about your imagination and it works thanks to associate what you want with a trip that already know you remember. Visual Memory Strategies
1) Your own Memory Palace This is a fairly simple and based on a more lengthy process of remembering, as The Journey method is known. It is also called loci (pronounced Lo-Si), from the Latin meaning "Places" means. This particular memory strategy is also known as a memory palace. For this simpler version, you have this list of 10 words:
- Elephant
- Apple
- Light
- Bicycle
- Aircraft
- Johnny Depp
- Blanket
- Tree
- Swan
- Statue
The idea is to cover the list and then look through the items mentioned above and remind them ... But do not do it yet.
First you need to plan a route around your house or apartment. The ride around your house must be 10 'stops' on them - 10 different places you can stop to see or remember something. The locations must be in a logical sequence.
For example, I can start in front of my building (1), go up the stairs to the 2nd Floor landing (2), then I'm going to my front door (3), open it and go into the shower room to my right (4), then in my room (5) go, then on the desk in the guest room (6 ), then the window (7), then head to the bathroom (8), to living room (9) and finish in the kitchen (10).
Obviously, you will be quite different. Whatever it is, make sure it has 10 stops. Well this trip, stopping at each point. Here is where you get imaginative ...
At each stop, the corresponding image point on the left-hand list. So, this is outside my building an elephant. I go up the stairs to the landing, where a huge apple says hello to me. I go to my front door, which is illuminated by candlelight. I go to my apartment and in the shower but can not get there. In a bike in the way I go to my room and there are toy plane practicing stunts over the bed. I go to the store room and Johnny Depp sitting at desk, writing. I go to the window and see a woman shaking a blanket out the window. I go to the bathroom and there is a tree which is in the bathtub, television in the living room and a swan in the kitchen is Michelangelo's David statue.
Sounds crazy, does not it? Well, the more crazy the image, the more you are likely to remember it. That's what fun about memory strategies like this.
See how many of the words on the list, you can remember back to the list without a glance. 6 or higher is great to go for a first time. If you can do all 10, go and do something else and then again after an hour or two and see how many you can remember on your trip to the Palace memory in your mind. Of course, the memory palace is just one of a series of memorization techniques that are available to you now.
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