I believe that the human brain can do a few extraordinary things when it is forced to them and If I can remember correctly then Kim Peek’s brain was known for its speed in transferring short term memory to long term memory,
Which I suspect is a major reason due to which he had an exceptional memory and I want to know how to force my brain to increase the speed by which it transfers my short term memories to long term memories and I believe that it can also work for others
There is a chemical in the brain called Myelin which **increases the speed of information passing in the brain by at least 20 times to maybe 200 times but not all the nerves in the brain are Myelinated and because of this I think that they are greatly slower than Myelinated nerve cells **
And if I remember correctly then the Memory Palace method uses already strong connections(or maybe nerves) in the brain which I believe are Myelinated and those connections may also release a lot of dophaime which affects memory and I also believe that nerve cells which are used a lot are Myelinated and connections which are used a lot in the brain become strong and maybe Myelinated,
And I also believe that the Memory Palace Technique uses Myelinated nerves which increases the speed of the transfer of information contained in them,
And forcing the Human Brain to Myelinate all its connection which are used for memory can maybe increase recall and its speed.
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Hello there,
I am not a mnemonist. I am only a fan of this fabulous site and the world of memory. After reading numerous books on memory and watching the top mnemonist in the world, here is my take on the question “How to force my brain to increase the speed by which it transfers…” -
Repetition
The only secret sauce for long term storage. By the way, Kim Peek was a savant. He was wired to have an incredible memory. He probably was able to make neural connections on the fly and could retain them without repetition.
But for mere mortals like us - whether you use rote (which is Alex Mullen’s first choice! Believe it or not) OR memory palace/loci/whatever); unlike you repeat the information, your brain won’t keep it in long term memory.
Note: I learnt an interesting hack which may be useful while repeating the information that you want your brain to keep in the hard drive instead of RAM (computer lingo).
You may want to follow this strategy:
If you do this kind of circus 
for two or three times, your brain probably will atleast give the information a chance to get into the long term memory space.
Prescription probably will be:
Rx
2/3 times above strategy for 3/5 non-consecutive days
Unless you are a savant in some memorization, note for instantaneously the event must jarring, good or bad
This is still not enought, because Rote remembering is required
For example, 9/11 was a jarring event, but the date of the “jar” comes from hardly going a week without coming across this date linked to an event
Ditto, December 7th, but do you as easily remember the year “this date in infarmy” happened? Why? Seldom do we see the added year, but on December 7th, the date that will live in infamy
Pseudo-jarring helps, as for example, making your Memory Palace or Linking, etc absurd,pornographic, or anything else you would not dare share with others. If you can share, I suggest your object to remember is not jarring and, therefore, more rote will be needed to burn it into the one or more brain cells needed
Repeat
As has been said, I think the best (and probably only) way is revision/repetition…the brain behaves as if to sort irrelevant from relevant(necessary to survive) information, so information it deems unnecessary is lost or removed…so you basically have to keep telling your brain to remember what you want it to not forget…ergo, revision.
Lack of elaborative encoding gives some savants their memory and when ever I did not use elaborative encoding to learn something I was able to learn it around 3 times quicker but I was not able to understand anything,
I believe that most savant do understand what they have learnt and it may be due to lack of elaborative encoding and may be new types of encoding can help in getting short term memory quickly transferred into long term memory.
Maybe some savants have great memory for 2 to 3 subjects because of lack of elaborative encoding but Kim Peek had a great memory for 15 subjects and I suspect that lack of elaborative encoding without the corpos calloseum which I think slows the speed of information traveling in the brain are one of the reasons of him being able to transfer his short term memories to long term memory very quickly and these may be parts of the reason of Kim Peek having a very great memory.