Any good resources to learn how to get a better at ‘chunking’ information together?
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Can you post an example of what you’re trying to do?
If you want to chunk it “together”, I assume you mean combine unrelated information? Pure association.
Uh, my understanding is that chunking is about turning small disparate pieces of information into a compressed “chunk;” for this definition, one of the most trivial examples is words themselves; it’s easier to remember a word than the letters that make them up: that’s why spelling is harder than reading.
For memory, two extremely common systems for chunking are the Major System and PAO. In the major system, the digits 1-0-0 can be turned into the vowels t-s-s and imagined as the word “hot sauce.” With a PAO (person action object), you could do something like have 002 become s-s-n, “Susan,” “Seasons,” “Shoeshine,” so to remember 002002002, you would just imagine Susan seasoning shoeshine. This way, you could compress 9 digits into a single image, using only one loci in your memory palace.
Does this make sense?
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Sometimes common info, so it only has to be learned once
If I was to approach something like the periodic table, elements are already grouped, but some elements share traits across groups
It’s a good system
When I want to “chunk” information, so that several pieces of info get “grouped” together as one chunk, I use a technique I originally picked up from Marc Channon (I think his book “Improve Your Memory” is top-notch).
This is more of a “tried and true” method.
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Pick the information you want to be in one single chunk.
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Then review that information forwards and backwards over and over, while increasing imagery vividness. Once you can do it quickly both forwards and backwards, visualize it all together. The whole chunk happening at the same time.
Don’t poo-poo it.
Often I can “chunk” a complicated collection of scenes/images/information in under 5 minutes with this.
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Thanks! Really appreciate it
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