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"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

"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.

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"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

by madeuptempacct 8y ago

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.