I am a beginner in using memory palaces…I have used Memory palaces to memorize vocabulary and I have successfully memorized 80 decimal places of pie.Today I was trying to memorize some vital Informations from some famous poets life story.But I am unable to memorize them because there is a huge amount of information like their birth dates, their famous books,works etc. So how can I organise this informations and place them efficiently in my memory palace?
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Could you provide a specific example of something you’re having trouble putting in a memory palace? People here could then brainstorm ways to approach it.
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I have the same question!
I intend to memorize a lot of historical information. I want to have hundreds of “major world historical events” in my head, with an emphasis on US history. But not exclusive the US. I mean, I most certainly will not leave out the first printing of the Gutenberg bible just because it happened in Germany.
Perhaps a different palace for each century would be useful, especially the closer I get to modern times where there are more events? But, let’s say I am working on the years around WW2. WW2 itself has many major events. Let’s say there are a dozen historical milestones in 1943. Would you attempt to throw all of the 1943 things together somehow?
Nafiz, I don’t mean to hijack your post. Hopefully we can both learn something from this discussion.
boulderKC
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Welcome, Nafiz!
My first piece of advice would be to collect/organize the information you want to memorize. You can always expand that later, but I think it will help if you establish some parameters right at the start; that way, you won’t be overwhelmed by all different kinds of information.
Create a document (I work exclusively on an iPad, but you may prefer a computer or paper) that includes the information you’ll memorize for each poet. Again, your list of poets—and the details you memorize—can grow over time, but now you’re just trying to focus the scope of your memorization.
Next, decide how you will organize your memory palace. If I were doing this, I’d make the poets’ last names the main information in each location, followed by dates, and then a list of their most famous (or most meaningful to me) works. I would want to have that information solidly memorized before adding details of their lives and, perhaps, their actual poems (or selected lines from their poems).
I’d recommend that you store no more than five poets per room in your memory palace. So choose or create a location that would provide enough space at the outset, with room to grow if you so choose.
Be warned that I’ve never attempted what you’re suggesting. So I’m just describing how I’d try to do it. (Note that I said “try.” If it doesn’t work, or I discover problems or benefits to other methods along the way, I’d change my approach.)
In each room, I’d store the poets’ names and images that would give me their birth/death dates (maybe where they lived too, if that would be of interest). Depending on your approach, this could already produce maybe 5-7 connected images (for name and then dates), depending on whether or not you’re including days/months or just the years. At this rate, I think your rooms will fill up fast. So I’d suggest thinking about adding dedicated palaces for each poet, where you can then store all of the related information you want. I guess I’m suggesting something like an “Index Palace” for names/dates, with all other information stored elsewhere.
I’d encourage you to search here on the Forum for additional information. Mayarra and Lynne Kelly have written extensively about building and maintaining very large palaces that can manage the kind of information you’re talking about. (Since they’re both actually doing this, I’d take their advice over my own any day!) In addition, Kelly has covered this topic in some detail (although I still wanted more!) in her book Memory Craft.
The links in this thread may help:
Bob
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Actually I have faced the same problem. A small thing that I have noticed that we should try to extend our journey. It’s too complex when we rush all those incidents or events in a single memory palace station. At this moment the only solution that I can come up with is to create more memory palaces. I think there are some informations that easily sticks to our mind. So we should spend a good amount of time to figure out the informations that are hard to remember from our own perspective and after that we can use the memory palace technique to place those informations.In some cases chunking can help.I mean storing informations that points to the same context. Placing these chunked informations in different rigions can help…
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Thanks for paying your kind attention. As an example lets assume that I want to memorize some biographies.
The biographies contain information like
-Birth date
-education
-Job
-Their contributions for the society
-Some incidents from their life
Etc.
So how can I can efficiently place these informations?
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