Some recent studies show that using a virtual environment like a video game, or an arrangement of shops on a street, is as efficient as actual locations. A memory master can choose from 100 memory palaces or more… If you have a memory palace with 5 rooms, 10 locations per room and 2 people per location, you can encode 600 digits per memory palace. This person-object-method encodes 6 digit numbers in one figure. The people are in the corners of the room, or in other stations of memory palace.
Massive memory palaces also include people performing bizarre actions. Just how many locations can one generate within one house? The 2006 World Memory Champion, Clemens Mayer from Germany, used a 300-point-long journey through his house for his world record in “number half marathon”, memorizing 1040 random digits in a half-hour. In several passages in these books, Lecter is described as mentally walking through an elaborate memory palace to recall information, mentally escape unpleasant situations and enhance sensory perceptions. The technique is employed by fictional character Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal and Hannibal Rising (novels by American author Thomas Harris). In literature, we can sometimes see a mastermind hero walking through magnificent memory palace. His memory palace was intended to fill the mind of the practitioner with images representing all the knowledge of the world. Giordano Bruno, a true renaissance man, used to base his memory palace on signs of the zodiac and concentric circles. Some use physical locations, and others use more schematic approach. The process is almost effortless when using an imaginary itinerary. The dual coding of visual and special memory also allows connecting various visualizations. These techniques mix visual memory and spatial orientation memory. There are many mnemonic techniques that can be called a “memory palace”, or “methods of loci”. The system of ordered locations with images of things within these locations hence became known as the memory palace. According to Cicero, Themistocles wasn’t much impressed with the poet’s invention: “I would rather a technique of forgetting, for I remember what I would rather not remember and cannot forget what I would rather forget.” Then he explained his method: “Persons desiring to train his memory must select places and form mental images of the things they wish to remember and store those images in the places, so that the order of the places will preserve the order of the things, and the images of the things will denote the things themselves, and we use the places and the images as a wax writing-tablet and the letters written upon it.” His contemporaries probably used similar methods quite often. Nobody could identify the bodies until Simonides came and recreated from his memory where everybody attending his speech was sitting. There was an earthquake, and all people attending the speech were crushed by collapsed roof.
Once after giving a speech in banquet, Simonides went out of a dining hall to discuss his payment. Within the circle of his students, the most prominent story is the story of Simonides of Ceos, the guy who invented lyric poetry. Like geometry and music, the art of memory owes a large debt to Pythagoras. None of these arts was possible without memory training, and ancient greeks were masters of memory training. She was the mother of all muses, the power behind art, music, literature and dance. In ancient Greece, Mnemosyne used to personify memory. The memory palace is one of the main tools in an ancient art of remembering things. Anthony Metivier is one of this people, and I have a great privilege of personally knowing him. Read all about it here.Ĭan anyone reinvent something that has been with us for 2500 years using nothing but their wits and will? While unlikely, we see these amazing people who change our perception of things people have been doing for centuries. Also, this has been an amazing year for Dr.
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Anthony Metivier: the free memory improvement kit. This lecture also comes with a free valuable resource you can use from Dr. This is something new I want to try: in-depth discussions about some prominent figures in superlearning world and their tools.
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