How to use memory palace technique|memory techniques| Tips to remember for long.

How to use memory palace technique|memory techniques| Tips to remember for long.

Our mind is not so good at memorizing the worlds, letters, and numbers in comparison to the images and the stories. It is easy to memorize the story of 1000 words but difficult to memorize and recall 20 words in series.

We see and do various things in our daily life again and again, due to this a large information gets stored in our mind irrespective of the complexity. For example- the map of our room, the things of your room, the sequence of the goods present in your bathroom and when you will think about it, you will get so many examples about it.

The memory palace method or also known for "method of loci" uses this ability of the mind to memorize things very easily and quickly and also allows you to retain it. It is originated in the nineteenth century and become more popular after Sherlock.


Some people who used it:
The eight times world memory champion Dominic O'Brien has used this technique to become the world memory champion.The champion of 2006 world memory championship, Clemens Mayer of Germany used this technique for memorizing 1040 random digits in half hour. Gary Shang has also used this method of memory palace to memorize the value of pi over 65536 digits in a row.

How does it work?
It is the method of association of what you want to remember with the very familiar location of your mind. Hence also known as the method of location. In this post, I will tell you to step by step to learn it and also give you an example to remember a list of words. Now it sounds very interesting, right?  so let us start:

How to use it?
Step1: Decide a base:-  First of all you have to choose one of the locations which are familiar to you. In the beginning, you should start with something very easy. Anything which is already remembered by you can be a base like:

• The sequence of the room of your house
• The sequence of your action after waking up
• The sequence of alphabets, solar planets
• The sequence of the building seen when walking from your home
• The way to your school
• This may be your video games as well.

For remembering more things you should select a base which is having more detailing or you can also select two memory palaces for the remember large things.

Step2: Selecting and finalizing the memory locations: Now, you have to select those locations of things which do not change their place and well remembered in your mind like if your base if your house, then the sequence of the rooms of your house may be the locations If your base is the way to the shop from your house, then it may be the sequence of the building come in your way.
Just you have to keep following things in your mind:

• It should not change its location easily
• You should be very familiar with those.
• The size of the location depends on how much you have to remember. If you have to remember a series of 50 words, the value of pi over 30 terms then you should select some memory palace to have more details of the location of things.

Step3: Association with the locations/things: In this method, we associate what we have to remember with the locations and things which we have selected and finalized for the memory palace. Association is done by creating the small story/statement. 

For example- If I have to associate my bedroom with the planet Mars then I may create a statement like- I paste some shining radiams of the solar system and the first planet which was close to the sun is Mars. You can make any statement you want according to your imagination and experience. You can add following things to make it better:

• The statement should be creative and funny
• It should not be too large
• It should not be confusing
• If your statement is related to your past experience then it will be easily remembered compared to the created statement.

Step4: Remembering the sequence: In this method, you have to get all the locations and the associations keep in your mind. If you have to remember some sequence, then remember the location in sequence like - in clockwise\anticlockwise or the sequence of the rooms from your bedroom to the main gate etc. 

If the sequence is not necessary, you can do it anyway. This step is the best part of this method. You can make it better in following ways:

• By visualizing the statements that you are doing this thing.
• By touching and feeling the locations if possible- it will trigger all the associated memory when you think about it.
• By revising it and revisiting it after some certain time intervals.

If I have to remember and revise things, then how the memory palace method is so useful?

Look, the remembering and the revising are quite different in the memory palace than your conventional/normal method.

Due to this method of uniqueness and a kind of hacks of association of your preexisting memory with the new things is the best way to remember fast. Also if you do so, this will let you remember things for a very long time.

Bye the way, when you revise and associate things in memory palace, then you will also enjoy which is generally not possible in the normal method.

How to use memory palace method to remember? (Example of how to use it?)

Suppose I have to remember a series of the 8 words for my exam, I show you that how would I remember it with the memory palace method.

Those words are- Species, Genus, Family, order, class, phylum, Kingdom, and Domain.

First of all, I will select a base for my memory palace-  and for that, I am selecting the sequence of activities I perform for getting ready for school after waking up in the morning.

Selecting and finalizing the things/location for memory palace:

• My sleepers
• Picture on door of my room
• Family picture in the corridor
• My dog house
• Kitchen
• wash basin pipe
• Mobile phone
• Scolding by mom.

Association of words with the location/things:

• Species- I woke up and then after looked towards my sleeper, There was an unknown insect (new species).
• Genus- I opened the door where I saw a pic of genius(genus) Einstein.
• while walking through the door I notice a picture on the wall, that is my family picture.
• Then I see my dod house. My dog listens to only my dad's order(order).
• Then I enter the kitchen for having a warm glass(class) of water.
• Then I notice the pipe of my basin having fungus(phylum) in it.
• After coming out of the kitchen, I start using my mobile phone and start watching the Game of Thrones(kings/kingdom)
• Then I get scolded by mom to get ready soon doing the main work.(Domain)

I have created this associations and stories based on my interests to get remembered for a long time. You must create something of your own interests which you are familiar with.

Make sure that the locations should not be repetitive of previous or other memory palaces.

In the next step, I will memorize these association and also try to feel it, imagine it and keep it revisiting again and again.

In the start, you should try something small and then as you practice more, you will be expert in it after some time.

I hope now you would have understood about memory palace method, if you have any query, leave a comment below.

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