Constantly building new memory palaces is annoying

General Memory Chat
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Like mentioned @ywanm, doing this in rounds you could begin the process without doing the memory palace work beforehand.

We’ve got a thread going about memorizing the American presidents here, in which we’re done with the first step: Coming up with ideas for associations. Here’s my brainstorming, here’s that of Issa. It went super fast to come up with something, and then one would have to go to Google to find images that correspond. I’ve done that below, for the pre WWII presidents. Took me a little less than an hour.

The next step would be making a journey and pasting the mnemonic images into that journey.

# President Mnemonic Image
1st George Washington Washing board
2nd John Adams Adam (from the Garden of Eden)
3rd Thomas Jefferson T. J. Hooker
4th James Madison Mad-Eye Moody (he’s mad cuz he didn’t make the third prez)
5th James Monroe Marilyn Monroe
6th John Quincy Adams Dr. Quincy
7th Andrew Jackson Johnny Cash (he’s goin’ to Jackson!)
8th Martin Van Buren A van goin’ burrr
9th William Henry Harrison Harrison Ford
10th John Tyler Tyler
11th James Polk People are so happy to get a new prez, they’re doing the polka
12th Zachary Taylor Zapp
13th Millard Fillmore A mill that won’t be filled no more
14th Franklin Pierce Pierce Brosnan
15th James Buchanan A buck
16th Abraham Lincoln A Lincoln
17th Andrew Johnson A.J. (from the Sopranos)
18th Ulysses S. Grant Odysseus
19th Rutherford B. Hayes Jumping in the hay
20th James A. Garfield Garfield
21st Chester A. Arthur King Arthur
22nd Grover Cleveland Cleveland
23rd Benjamin Harrison A breast holder (bra)
24th Grover Cleveland Cleveland throwing away the bra
25th William McKinley A suit from McKinsey
26th Theodore Roosevelt A teddy bear
27th William Howard Taft A taffy
28th Woodrow Wilson A wood
29th Warren G. Harding Warren G.
30th Calvin Coolidge Kool-Aid
31st Herbert Hoover A Hoover
32nd Franklin D. Roosevelt A rooster
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