To be honest, I know a lot more about spaced repetition than I do about creating memory palaces. My only exposure to the latter is from Foer's book, and while I

To be honest, I know a lot more about spaced repetition than I do about creating memory palaces. My only exposure to the latter is from Foer's book, and while I've begun using my house as a memory palace to easily memorize short lists (15 or fewer items) [1], I haven't been ready yet to devote the time needed to memorize specific paths through hundreds of discrete locations in order to memorize longer things like speeches or several thousand Chinese characters. The best advice I could give you is read Foer's book first, and then you should know what elements of the art of memory you should pursue further. Oh, after you finish Moonwalking with Einstein, you'll probably want to start building memory palaces, and this post has a good suggestion for creating new ones: http://www.michaelcorayer.com/2011/03/31/resource-for-memory-palaces http://www.michaelcorayer.com/2011/03/31/resource-for-memory... [1] Even without jumping into the amazing world of memory palaces, you can still take away a lot of little gems from the book, including seemingly obvious things that you probably never bothered to think of. For example, the author says, "Words that rhyme are much more memorable than words that don’t; concrete nouns are easier to remember than abstract nouns; dynamic images are more memorable than static images; alliteration aids memory. A striped skunk making a slam dunk is a stickier thought than a patterned mustelid engaging in athletic activity."