Building memory skills (& creating accountability)

[Lukelustre (Luke)]

Days 16-20:

ngl I’m on holiday so I’ve not done a lot lmao

Read Chapters 6-8 of Memory Craft while on the plane which was cool, while I definitely appreciate the insight and foray into different kinds of memory devices through cultures, I really take a shine to the parts that discuss using memory methods in modern contexts.

Also, I saw a really insightful point on a post about how they better remember abstract words:

@LociInTheSky

I’ve been improving at words a lot recently. I think if all of the words were concrete nouns I might be really good at the discipline, but trying to visualize the abstract words has always sucked up my time and if I memorize enough words I’ll forget the abstract ones anyway. I’ve recently been memorizing 2 words per locus which is how the top Words peeps usually do it, and I take in the two words as one, coming up with an image to encapsulate them both.

That changed the difficulty of trying to remember 26 items with my alphavet list somewhat - it’s still not easy per se, but giving a pair of words to a letter almost synergises the memorability of each aspect, which has massively helped.

Will try and keep up with memory-realted things while I’m on holiday, and looking to see if I can make some memory palaces for where I’m at.