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Actually sitting down to train my memory once a day. At a bare minimum I memorize the order of a pack of cards, but I try and work in other exercises when I hav

Actually sitting down to train my memory once a day. At a bare minimum I memorize the order of a pack of cards, but I try and work in other exercises when I have the time. I'm in the process of memorizing my first book. Super helpful if you're an IT guy and need to remember a bunch of different IP addresses, usernames, and passwords. Also people love it when you remember their name. Highly recommend taining your memory, it's very useful.

clarkey252 8y ago
You can remember the order of an entire pack of cards?!? Are you a wizard
madeuptempacct 8y ago
"At a bare minimum I memorize the order of a pack of cards, but I try and work in other exercises when I have the time." How long does it take you? Do you use any mnemonic techniques? Would your time not be better spent memorizing foreign vocab? Do you see an improvement? Have you checked for cross-task improvements? What got you doing this? What differences do you see?
- oregontechninja 8y ago
  I use video game locations as memory palaces. I use Pokemon to represent numbers. It takes me 10 minutes to memorize a deck. It took me two 20 minute training sessions to learn how. I will eventually use it to learn a new language. I read half of "Moonwalking with Einstein", worked out some exercises, and started practicing. By the next day, I could remember the order of the deck of cards! I can't believe I went my whole school career without knowing such a valuable technique. Can you expand on what you mean by cross-improvement? The differences are huge. One of the first things I did was make a memory papace for my current month and set up my schedule. Also remembering names is laughably trivial for me now. It feels like gaining a super power in the form of memory and litteraly everyone thinks you're a genius (even though they could just as easily learn the skill)
  - madeuptempacct 8y ago
    Cross-task improvements refers to improvements carrying over beyond the practiced task. For example, if I run every day, did I just get better at running or will I see improvements in my swimming, biking, and skiing? A HUGE concern with memory training of any sort is that you only tend to get better at the task you train on, i.e. memorizing cards. Cross-task improvements would be being able to memorize a phone number more reliably. A far cross-task improvement would be improved IQ.
ydnaclementine 8y ago
If someone wants to do this but a little more productive (imo), get anki (or similar flash card app) on your phone and memorize words in a foreign language that interests you
- oregontechninja 8y ago
  Flashcards are nowhere near the same thing, or as useful. I'm talking about cultivating your memory like a muscle. That way, when it comes time to use it, you actually can.
  - vinylkey 8y ago
    Do you find a correlation with being able to memorize a deck of cards with having a better memory with day-to-day stuff?

clarkey252 8y ago

You can remember the order of an entire pack of cards?!? Are you a wizard

madeuptempacct 8y ago

"At a bare minimum I memorize the order of a pack of cards, but I try and work in other exercises when I have the time." How long does it take you? Do you use any mnemonic techniques? Would your time not be better spent memorizing foreign vocab? Do you see an improvement? Have you checked for cross-task improvements? What got you doing this? What differences do you see?

oregontechninja 8y ago
I use video game locations as memory palaces. I use Pokemon to represent numbers. It takes me 10 minutes to memorize a deck. It took me two 20 minute training sessions to learn how. I will eventually use it to learn a new language. I read half of "Moonwalking with Einstein", worked out some exercises, and started practicing. By the next day, I could remember the order of the deck of cards! I can't believe I went my whole school career without knowing such a valuable technique. Can you expand on what you mean by cross-improvement? The differences are huge. One of the first things I did was make a memory papace for my current month and set up my schedule. Also remembering names is laughably trivial for me now. It feels like gaining a super power in the form of memory and litteraly everyone thinks you're a genius (even though they could just as easily learn the skill)
- madeuptempacct 8y ago
  Cross-task improvements refers to improvements carrying over beyond the practiced task. For example, if I run every day, did I just get better at running or will I see improvements in my swimming, biking, and skiing? A HUGE concern with memory training of any sort is that you only tend to get better at the task you train on, i.e. memorizing cards. Cross-task improvements would be being able to memorize a phone number more reliably. A far cross-task improvement would be improved IQ.

ydnaclementine 8y ago

If someone wants to do this but a little more productive (imo), get anki (or similar flash card app) on your phone and memorize words in a foreign language that interests you

oregontechninja 8y ago
Flashcards are nowhere near the same thing, or as useful. I'm talking about cultivating your memory like a muscle. That way, when it comes time to use it, you actually can.
- vinylkey 8y ago
  Do you find a correlation with being able to memorize a deck of cards with having a better memory with day-to-day stuff?