I need help with this doubt

Hello, I have been working on improving my memory and I have made significant progress, being able to memorize 300 numbers in 5 minutes. However, I noticed that this did not help me much in school. Fortunately, I have already solved this problem since I have good study methods.

Before, I spent about 2 hours a day, except for a day to rest, to train my memory. But now, due to my commitments to school and other activities, I only train one day for 4 hours.

I have decided to dedicate Sundays to learn new things, like a new language, to improve my learning and adaptation capacity. However, this will only leave me an hour to train my memory.

My question is: Is it more beneficial to learn new things to increase my capacity and speed of learning, or should I continue training my memory to achieve the same goal?

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Just be careful with mental fatigue… if it happens, it’s bad for your mental health, it’s less productive…

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Totally Anderson, I just finished studying a non-verbal language book, I haven’t even reached 3 hours yet, but little by little I’m going to increase the time and adding breaks of course.

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The thing with numbers is the information is already set.

To learn you need to encode new information, so numbers isn’t the best event to help with this.

Read, until you have a firm grasp on the new material. Encode in a memorable way to you.

Review as necessary.

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What Don said.

A question you might ask yourself (write down your answer on paper):

  • What specific things are you most excited about being fast at memorizing?

Be very specific. Microscopically specific.

After you scribble all your answers down for 120 seconds, take a breath. Close your eyes. And when you open them, read what you wrote.

Whatever you see on the page, your practice sessions needs to look like the type of knowledge you wrote down --and, of course, time yourself.

Regards,
Beau

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In my humble opinion, getting very fast at memory sports isn’t going to help you with school that much. A few things that would help more are:

  • Note-taking
  • Anki flashcards
  • Feynman Method
  • Mind maps

Memory Palaces can help you memorize big lists: list of events during a certain historical period, the periodic table, etc. However, after you have at least a 2-digit PAO and many memory palaces, I don’t think memory training will improve your learning by much. Since you can already memorize 300 digits in 5 minutes (!!!), I think that you should practice memory sports only if it is for its own sake, like a hobby, not school learning.

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I think he should practice Words. Seriously, just like 20 even. Just to get used to practice of encoding new things. His numbers are already more than capable for anything with stats or dates.

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agreed.

Words for sure.

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Hello Don Michael, in my case, I can memorize about 75 words in 5 minutes, but I think I still need more practice. I use a modified version of the zettelkasten method to study quickly. When I learn something new, I take brief notes and logically connect them with other notes I have taken, regardless of the topic. This method has helped me a lot because I absorb information like a sponge and understand the general concept better. Although it has worked well for me, I feel that I could improve. I also use spaced repetition and the examination method with active recall and self-explanation, but I still have doubts and want to improve my study method, including the use of mnemonics. And that’s why my doubt is whether mnemonics can help me a lot for studying, should I continue training it with that goal or should I train it more for a championship goal?

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Thank you very much Beau, that strategy you told me is quite interesting, I will definitely try it and include it here

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I understand, Maike, I started training memory sports to speed up my brain and it has fulfilled that. In the end, it is a demanding activity that requires concentration and mastery of a skill. My second goal was to improve in school and yes, I improved, but not precisely with mnemonics in a direct way.

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Woah! That’s good! What’s your technique?

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Only memorize 4 words for each space in my room up to 75 words, I try to make the connections between words as logical as possible within the absurd so I remember it much better

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Pls can you elaborate a bit more with some examples. I’m interested and want to learn more

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I would have gone with learning new things over repeating old things. But as has been pointed out, you do need rest.

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Mnemonics is for memorizing. If you can already naturally memorize nearly all info presented to you in class, then mnemonics will do little to increase your grades, and studying techniques emphasizing connecting information like mind mapping or Feynman’s method will be much more useful in increasing your grades further to you.

That being said, I found that in highschool, though I was able to naturally remember nearly all the info presented to me in class for exams and tests, none of it stayed in my long term memory and nearly all of it was forgotten after the class ended. Mnemonics was very useful for actually encoding stuff that I learned in my long term memory so that it didn’t fall out of my mind and remained a permanent part of my store of knowledge.

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Check out Dr Lynne Kelly’s Memory craft book or web site as she is using her memory system to slowly build up her knowledge. Also she is currently doing work in schools about memory.

Also Un-Stupiding Myself A Memory Training Journal is worth a read - journal of someone trying to remember their life and texts.

Do not want the hate however a sport is a distilled version of a task or skill so learning numbers fast is the sport and for school you want to use the skill for long-term learning.

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Decompose the general information into specific details, clarify them and put them back together in a single image, as if it were a hieroglyphic, statue, effigy, painting, etc… An image that encompasses more than words can ever say.

A character can bring a multitude of things to your mind, but this is because you have many fragments of information on a single head, because a subject or character may have been crowned, tortured, betrayed, in love, etc… All on the same head, but in different parts analyzed.

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Sure, if you’re talking about my memorization method, what I do is visualize the scenes and start linking them naturally. Personally, I don’t use any other sense apart from sight in my scenes. When I talk about logical connections, I mean, for example, if I want to memorize the word “incinerate” with the word “dog”, I imagine a dog trying to incinerate its paw. But I add a logical element: the dog wants to incinerate its paw because it’s dirty and it’s tired of cleaning it. I do this with all the connections, often very quickly and unconsciously.

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