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Even if you close your eyes, you would still know where your monitors are, where your keyboard is, where your laptop is, and so on. You would know where your be
by JoshCole 4y ago
Even if you close your eyes, you would still know where your monitors are, where your keyboard is, where your laptop is, and so on. You would know where your bed was. Where the table where you eat sat and the number of chairs around it. If you want to have a better memory, put things into the part of you that handles remembering where objects are in the spaces you occupy.
To do that you need to be able to encode information into objects and decode objects back into information. You also need to put the encoded information in storage - a spatial context. Once you've written an object to this spatial storage, you can read it back out again by remembering that space. You can also move through the space in a predetermined way. Your mind will recall the other objects you told it were in that space. So you'll see them there as you move through the space.
There is literally a part of your mind dedicated to handling this type of spatial association. You will need to practice it so you can build connections to it so your memory can improve from it. You can get an MRI and see the difference between people who practice this technique and those who don't, because they have more connections to this region than those who aren't winning memory competitions.
The trouble is that the encoding and decoding step are hard to learn. You'll be really slow at doing that part until you practice it a lot.
You've probably heard of this technique of memorization by using your spatial memory. This is the method of loci or the memory palace technique. It was once more well known that it is now. Writing and reading supplanted it as the dominant way to memorize things.
- JoshCole 4y agoTo give a bit more contrast - a lot of the other methods people are sharing will definitely help your memory. Getting enough sleep is important. So is eating well. Yet if your goal is to improve your memory to an extreme - like lets say, fully memorizing every word in a large book or being able to recite a number to ten thousand places or being able to be repeat back card for card fifty two cards in a row - what you need isn't just to be rested and healthy. You need actual technique. The comparison I would use is sports. Yes - if you want to be good at sports, you should be in peak shape. However, being in peak shape is only a part of the solution. You also need the proper technique.