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How easy is it to reuse the memory palace? Ultimately I'd like to use this technique to remember played cards during a card game. I can remember most cards qui
by emerongi 10y ago
How easy is it to reuse the memory palace?
Ultimately I'd like to use this technique to remember played cards during a card game. I can remember most cards quite easily, but often when it comes to the last 3-8 cards, I can't be 100% sure what they are.
Though I'm not sure it's worth my time. I already remember more cards than my usual opponents.
- achow 10y agoThink remembering birthdays is difficult? Try memorizing two decks of cards in five minutes or less. That is what Joshua Foer did to win the 2006 U.S. Memory Championship... “Moonwalking With Einstein” does just that: It takes the reader on Foer’s journey from memory novice to national champion. http://www.salon.com/2011/03/06/foer_moonwalking_with_einstein/ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/06/foer_moonwalking_with_einste...
- gcb0 10y agoeven the opening of the article is misleading. memory palace is great for silly memory competitions but I've never seen anyone mention they used it to remember birthdays.
- pps 10y agoI'm using it for that, I have database of all my friends and family. You can use memory palaces for everything. Just remember that you need to use spaced repetition as with every other thing you want to know forever.
- summarite 10y agoHow do you structure it? Do you have a palace ordered by months/dates with people placed in?
- pps 10y agoNo, I have these people standing in locations on the journey. Each person have information stored in parts of their bodies. Place for scenes encoding birthdays is on their heads, I need to "zoom" there to see it. E.g scene on my girlfriend's head: Joanna Jędrzejczyk (01) is standing in the heap of chestnuts (october), while Adam Nowak (19) is stomping dynamically (71) on something. I'm using PAO ( http://artofmemory.com/wiki/Person-Action-Object_(PAO)_System http://artofmemory.com/wiki/Person-Action-Object_(PAO)_Syste... ) with Dominic System ( http://artofmemory.com/wiki/Dominic_System http://artofmemory.com/wiki/Dominic_System ) which gives me ability to store up to 6 integers as one image, but I encode months symbolically and not as numbers.
- JoshMnem 10y agoThe (unofficial) current card memorization record is 14.09 seconds on http://memoryleague.com/ http://memoryleague.com/
- greeneggs 10y agoJoshua Foer never explains how to forget and reuse. I've never understood it. I can still remember the shopping list I memorized while reading his book six years ago.
- wodenokoto 10y agoThere is a passage in the book about cleaning up the palace before the last competition. He mentally walks through all the rooms and imagine them empty and clean. I think he spends a day or a weekend to thoroughly clean up before the championship.
- JoshMnem 10y agoThere is some information on this page on reusing memory palaces: http://artofmemory.com/wiki/Memory_Palace http://artofmemory.com/wiki/Memory_Palace