Hello,
Is there anyone here who can recommend me a good memory course, one that teaches you how to memorize books?
Thanks
Does it need to be a course or cost money? You can find information about most memory techniques1 on this site (over 10,000 pages of free content).
After you know the basics, like memory palaces and peg list systems, try using them to memorize parts of your notes (especially parts that are in lists), and if you get stuck on something, you could post it as a question in the forum.
1 If a technique is missing or you’re looking for a specific kind of guide, send me a message and I’ll see if we can add it. 
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I really need help with Pmemory if I can do all of the lessons I`m super happy a big worry is off my back and I can properly learn a tradecraft like accounting and make something out of myself
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I’m not very familiar with pmemory, but if you search the forum I think there are some people here who have gone through the program.
It still uses the same techniques like link method, Memory palace they just call it different. But I need to be able to memorize books. That’s the tricky part and maybe even algorithms I love computer programing just not very good and finding my own mistakes when writing in a new language. Anybody can help just don`t know if I can find people to do on regular daily basis for 2-3 months
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If the techniques are basically the same, I don’t know if a course is going to provide more than what you can find here on the site for free. After you know how the techniques work, it might be most effective to just try applying them. You can keep refining your techniques as you experiment with them.
What kind of programming languages are you studying?
I’m not an expert programmer, but I watch a lot of people learn how to code and have some thoughts on it based on watching which study strategies lead to the fastest progress. (I organized 500+ programming events before the pandemic.) If I can help, let me know.
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Hello,
I`m not studying anything at the moment. But I do want to know how to use JAVA, HTML CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySql. I fiddled with them in the past on W3SCHOOLS. But the number of mistakes I made while programming was astronomical. It was very tiring to find them
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I think most people find the first 1-2 years of programming frustrating. As long as you’re writing and reading code on a regular basis, it will get a lot easier.
I wouldn’t worry about making mistakes during the first 1-2 years. The mistakes are frustrating, but that frustration makes the solutions memorable. The more painful the bug, the less chance there is of making the same mistake again.
It used to cause me a lot of stress until I realized that fixing the bugs is probably the most valuable part of the learning process. It isn’t a waste of time to spend 5 hours on a bug and then find out that it was due to a small typo — that 5 hours is the lesson, and it’s often more useful in the long run than 5 hours spent watching videos or reading a book on the subject.
If you get stuck while you’re studying or are looking for more programming resources, let me know.
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Thanks a lot man I appreciate it
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I used to be a pmemory graduate and instructor when pmemory was live back in the days. Pmemory really wasnt a memory course but rather memory and mind training.
I agree. What I like about pmemory is that sets out a framework for things.
Let me give you an analogy. You can type with various fingers. But we learn to touch-type which means we AUTOMATE which finger presses which keys.
pMemory is like that. It’s focus is to not rope in all the memory powers of your head, but focus on visual connections, and then builds a framework around using it. And the exercises grind away till you have “touch-typing” abilities with it. That is my take reviewing it. I am now organizing and going to actually do it. I really liked MindAcademy’s free-ebook (which is based on GMS, but I converted it into English as I can’t read swedish!)… it helped clarify the MECHANICS behind memory and why to consider the GMS way.
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But as Kyle says, it’s no magic bullet. It’s like saying, can I touch-type 60 words a minute after learning how to touch-type? No. But you practice and implement it a lot. And then you build up to that where you can touch-type without even thinking about what you’re typing… it’s almost subconscious.
I think that’s the way the GMS method aims to structure memorizing. To automate with a structure and then eventually delegate most to your subsconsious. But be ready for a crap-load of work at the start, for the first few months.
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I have read a bunch of memory books and they generally all cover the basic sort of stuff.
Some of the older (1800) ones have some elaborate stuff like turning rooms into grids and memorizing things in those grids that dont appear logical to me.
However, many cover the basics of amplifying association (pulling in all the senses), the link method, peg method, Loci/roman-room system. Many offer good tips about getting yourself into that focused state, working on improving your visualization.
There was one book and I can’t recall where, but it used roman-room but they had one link in each room that was like a hyper-link to get you back to the main room … so it was a sort of advanced navigation method.
And then, the GMS method, that really focuses on a mechanism for how to attach images together (with zoom in on parts), and it’s equivalent to major-system (to allow word formation rules for numbers), still appears to be my desired system. The GMS/pmemory systems emphasis only using images and removing the other senses actually is unique to this system which none of the others seem to do. My understanding of this is that it’s attempting to build unconscious competence in focusing using the mind’s visual system to capture information.
I will report back as I achieve that level of skill. I am thinking of building out some teaching products along the way, as I anticipate that it’s going to be a lot of rote testing (building the “reflexive” memory recall).
I should clarify MindAcademy’s book is EXACTLY the GMS manual, so no new info. The actual GMS manual is enough.
I am attempting to buy the updated course by the actual Russian creator of GMS. He is accessible and teaches in Moscow. He claims to have some decent improvements since the 2006 timeframe when the Ruslan course was last updated.
Hello, I’m in Moscow.
I spoke with Kozarenko. Evil uncle mistook me for a pirate and banned me. I passed his old course. Kozarenko can be easily found.
I also took a course of Eidetiki from Matyugin I. and bought a course from him.
Hello Kyle can you be online on Skype again. I was trying to get a job so I wasn’t doing pmemory but that job oportunity Didnt work out so i need to get a job in the local administration and i need pmemory so if you are still out there i really need your help.
Thanks
that’s an ambitious list, but I can totally relate.