I have serious hate for PAO, on principles. I used it for just 10 weeks, long enough to make it through my first championship and could not wait to set it ablaze and begin to rebuild. Actually, I stayed up all night the night before the USAMC starting to fill out hundreds of my 1000 digit objects because I was too excited to be freed of the shortcomings. That was 2013. Some people can use PAO well, but it is very difficult to do.
And your experience here looks like it might have a lot to do with the aspects of PAO which I assumed I’d never be able to overcome all that effectively.
Good work purposefully using loci as successful cues. It soubds like you’re pretty good at it. But why? Let me get the story straight.
Locus cues Rambo. This is good. It will have to be good. To draw the next action out of a deck at random is to commit to encoding infoemation that is at odds with the very obvious essential characteristics of Rambo’s identity. One part of a concept is how it appears, but the majority of its identity is the state of a vibey web of that freezes the relationships between it and its surrounding factors in a certain shape that would differ for anyone else. That is why PAO is so challenging. It is hard to visualize clearly at high speeds, and that would be fine if the intimation of A indicated P, and/or indicated O. If you don’t have that, then all you have to work with is what you’ve seen. Maybe an example would help. I haven’t seen Rambo, but I’m thinking shirtless, sweaty, gunning, I’m wondering, if he’s putting on sunglasses now, then how has he even managed to carry them until now. IIRC, he has two straps of ammunition crossing his torso in an “X”. I reckon that’s where the glasses were hanging from. Rambo has a way of carrying small objecta out of necessity which does not apply to anyone else. If you visualized him removing the sunglasses from the ammo belt by his collar, you might have remembered them better aftwr remembering Rambo. But if you remembered the glasses, and this remival, then you would certainly remember Rambo - Even if you never saw him. That is the key. And now you’ve identified a tendency that will pop up in certain situations now and again. Take that knowledge, and…
hang it on your belt for quick access when needed.
The “A” is reflexive. And then the “O” is…a retroactive modifier of P, of some kind, or something like that. Hm.
Above, I described a relationship between P and A,which, in the off chance it would pop up, makes up for a SIGNIFICANT amount of visual fidelity, which could be traded out for speed, where little memorability would be lost. The AO you described seems fairly opposite to this focus-on-interrelationship. I’m not even sure I comprehend how these elements map on to the “Action” and “Object” roles. What would make sense to me would be Rambo taking out the sunglasses from his ammo and placing them on the skateboard. Not idly, as if he just neeeds to free his hands, but as if he is “Dressing” the skateboard. The skateboard is “wearing” sunglasses. This way of handling the A seems pretty well generalizeable, and the relationships link in All directions. The act of “dressing” limits the possible Actions this might have been. From the point of view of someone who only visually locked in the skateboard, the state of “wearing” limits its possible immediate predecessors by the same token. That Rambo had to reach down, instead of up – for whatever reason – is limiting as well. Every P, and A, and O in your system is rife with characteristics which are either entirely unique, or which place it within a limited set of items that are also in that category. “Things that roll.” The more frequently and precisely you exploit these characteristics in your tableau, the more imposssible it becomes that any OTHER object might have been in its place. So you know what ot was. Even if you didn’t see it well. License to move quickly.
But thinking in this way is NOT quick. Probably, you should slow down a L O T, visualizing de k after deck (don’t bother with recall - memorization has nothing to do with this) and feel what it is like for every element in your tableau to be indicated in such a way that even if it were absent, the negative space of relationships would retain its shape, in a manner of speaking.
Building the skill of constructing tableaus with this characteristic-relationship mindset, is real, and it’s important. But that isn’t all.
Since you only have to deal with 156 elements, you will building an actionable repertoire that applies to each of your elements specifically. Outsource significant cognitive work to your former self, so that your present self can reach out and grab whatever you need in the moment off of the shelf where you readied it beforehand.
Hope this helps.
