Hello fellow memorizers,
I was listening to a very interesting interview with Mattias Ribbing and later another Youtube video with Simon Reinhard and was surprised to hear that both don’t use the technique of exaggerating violent, sexual, humorous stories to remember things placed on a loci. Instead they use very “simple” images and that is enough for them to remember the object placed on the loci and it is a lot faster and less taxing on the brain.
Examples: Mattias just sees a very large green 3D chair and that will be enough to remember the object that he places there. Reinhard gave the example that he wants to remember a tomato and his link is a couch. He will use the roundness of the couch and something red on the couch to remember the tomato. Instead of a tomato being smashed into the couch and covered with tomato-juice and pieces of tomato how I would remember it.
I thought that everybody was making stories that are pretty detailed and kind of long to remember otherwise it is very hard to remember what is placed on the loci. In all the books that I have read they always press the importance to make the pictures as vivid as possible and exaggerated. I would like to hear from the people here if just a short clue works for you and if this is very common in the memory world or are they the exception on the rule? Your thoughts and experience would be welcome.
This is a link to the Reinhard interview.
Impact Talks #26: Simon Reinhard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6BUs0B7vTY&t=13s
Mattias Ribbing interview.
