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Think 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 Ch

by achow 10y ago

Think 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 ago
even 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 ago
  I'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 ago
    How do you structure it? Do you have a palace ordered by months/dates with people placed in?
    - pps 10y ago
      No, 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 ago
The (unofficial) current card memorization record is 14.09 seconds on http://memoryleague.com/ http://memoryleague.com/

by achow 10y ago

gcb0 10y ago

even 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 ago
I'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 ago
  How do you structure it? Do you have a palace ordered by months/dates with people placed in?
  - pps 10y ago
    No, 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 ago

The (unofficial) current card memorization record is 14.09 seconds on http://memoryleague.com/ http://memoryleague.com/