I wanted to share a method I use for visualization. Sometimes, when I have difficulty forming clear images in my mind, I describe the scene to a tool like Grok and generate an image from it. Then, I use those generated images in Grok again to turn them into videos.
The main reason I prefer Grok is that it can produce a large number of images in different styles very quickly, and then convert them into videos just as fast. On top of that, it is free. I just wanted to share this approach with you all, and I would be very open to any suggestions you may have for improving this process or for alternative tools.
This has been a norm these days. I always saw highest use case of A.I. Music is easy to remember: AI can make song from paragraph, incomplete stories are engaging: A.I creates that. We will have to realize that almost all of things which aid in memory can be created by A.I as digital reality.
This provides breakthrough in starting with these techniques so much that a person can get used to them in matter of days which is a tremendous thing.
The next logical step is however to train the brain so that these image creation becomes implicit and almost predictive. People do not realize that what we are actually trying to do is be able to run these methods in background and take our whole attention to learning which was always our goal, reducing any kind of cognitive load.
Many experts have always criticized A.I for being too dumb, increasing survilliance, feeding unrelated data, not providing the next relevant path to take, provide diffused answers, providing too much answers, manupulation(A.I exploits our most primal passive learning mechanism which is social learning and A.I is not neutral) and many more. I see myself that to be the case.
I have this bias towards A.I that it’s use helped me created proper knowledge base(gained through research, books, journals and formal education) with better web of connections.
I am happy that people can now learn memory methods without having to be trapped by writers who take the original idea and add newer names to it and publish 20 books. I have always harshly criticized those.
The only thing I would suggest you to realize that all of them will ease your way to getting started but you will have to eventually know about memory principles and make these memory methods implicit almost like motor skills(like driving, swimming, walking) and invest your bigger portion of time in learning which is of greater importance.
At the moment, these skills are not yet automatic for me, so I still rely on AI from time to time. However, it is very helpful for learning and gaining knowledge. Like you said, it helps me recognize when a technique is just an old method repackaged under a new name. I may also use it later to create new mind palaces once my current ones are full.
How effective is this for you ? Compared to not using it ? Cause implementing it myself after reading multiple articles saying that coming up with your own visualization is what makes it memorable (I very well have agreed that this is true and how after practice it gets easier and faster), but coming up with an idea for it, then typing it and a tool generating it is an interesting approach id love to know more about. What do you think about the long term effect progress? Because as you get more creative and quicker with the visualization, more easily you can memorize things quicker. Thank you !
Yes, sometimes I place them in specific locations in my mind palace. Other times, I link them to pegs. In that case, I make a video that combines the peg with the information or concept I want to learn.
Actually, I do my own visualization, but I use this method when I cannot picture it clearly in my mind. It is also helpful sometimes when I have difficulty associating certain things with emotions.
Apologies for my assumptions, so it is more to clear the visualization in your head at times and not full dependence. It was intriguing because some people have a very very hard time visualizing things (not you), and if the creativity for an idea without visualization was just as effective.
I do this as well, but in a little more complex way.
Basically I come up with an aesthetic guide that is related to the topic at hand. For example, if I’m learning French, I’ll use Impressionism. If I’m learning Russian, I’ll use Kandinsky.
Then I use Midjourney to create images in that style of the thing I’m trying to memorize. So I’ll make a drawing of a cup in the style of Kandinsky, if I want to learn the Russian word for cup.
This is called the picture superiority effect, btw.
No it’s not free anymore. The cheapest plan is $10 I think. But you can find other free AI apps to make images.. Midjourney is probably just the best one IMO.
No worries. Thankfully, I don’t have any trouble visualizing it. As far as I can tell, the reason for the lack of clarity is that I haven’t worked on the visuals enough, so they aren’t permanently etched in my mind. For this I am gonna try the picture superiority effect method suggested by @KS-memory
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