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I took the Jonathan Levi Superlearner course on Udemy about a year ago and the Loci method is a key part of this course. I highly recommend it for anyone who i

• Moshe_Silnorin 11y ago
  >I can say that it's extremely useful for remembering lists of things, but I haven't had a lot of success in using it to retain or organize abstract information. I think the fact that these techniques have died out is some evidence that they are not actually very useful.
  • edanm 11y ago
    Just as a counterpoint, in the book "Moonwalking with Einstein", the author talks quite a bit about the fact that many of these methods survived for a long long time, and people in the past considered memory an incredibly important proof of someone being educated. The methods seem to have been "lost" mostly when better options for external memory (e.g. writing and printing) became more universal. (iirc - i'm probably messing this up somewhat).
    • schoen 11y ago
      Yeah, it might be harder to convince people that classic memory techniques are important when they carry smartphones. But the classic memory techniques may still work just as well as they ever did!