day 10 : well I didn’t forget anything. That’s super good I can go back to memorizing normally and making slow progress everyday now . this is what i’ve been doing today. I memorized like 3 games so far with some theory. Memorizing theory is super annoying as I have to make my memory palace into sections for sidelines and main lines etc…
day 11: I’m getting better and better at memorizing chess games for now I memorized 50/364 pages of my smith morra book. My day ends in 5 hours but I’m pretty exhausted so I’m not sure how much more I’ll take. I’ll only keep getting faster and faster at this point. When I’m done with the book I’ll start doing words. edit: I got to page 60 that’s all I could manage
day 12: I feel terrible I think one of the drawbacks of the palace is that it’s extremely taxing. In the second book I’ve read by ron white I think he said that he’s training 2-4 hours a day and that 15-30 minutes is enough for the average person. yesterday I did do like 6-7 or something like that. I woke up fatigued with a huge appetite. it’s like I’m craving energy or something , usually I eat the same things everyday, it’s super rare for this to happen
Hi. How many images-words do you remember by Day?
yesterday I believe it was 300
day 13: I barely memorized a game (I forgot to write day 13 yesterday
day 14: same as day 13. Gonna start my studies tommorow so it’s back to verbatism and equations
day 15:couldn’t do anything my memory suffers a lot when I don’t sleep. I usually sleep at 6 now I have to wake up 6 so my sleep is terrible
day 16:same as day 15 but slightly better
Hi. You could sleep one Hour then to recover. And use relaxation techniques.
I tried doing so. I managed to get by
day 17: reviewed everything and memorized a chess game. There were some gaps I had to fill but I remember the gist of all the games. My sleep today was a bit better
day 18: I got tired after memorizing like 3 games. which are almost 60-70 images. I’ll see how much more I can push myself for the day
Hi. What you feel about so much work? You feel tired or more motivated? I havent memorized so many words.
I don’t think it’s much work at all. I think I should do a lot more. at least maybe like 3 or 4 hundred a day. But currently that’s too difficult for me. maybe on a very good day that’s possible but doing it consistently is too taxing. the way I motivate myself is visualizing myself becoming a genius everyday and listening to certain types of music. sure it helps getting me started. But the work itself doesn’t really motivate me. Sure improving is always nice but I don’t notice it because of the absurd amount of images u need to truly succeed at what you do. for chess I would say u would need to have at least 8000 images for a starting opening repertoire that’s half solid for semi-pro play. there’s no way I’m beating top level grandmaster’s opening preparation with 8000 images. And u need at least 1200 for tactics, there’s a book of tactics with all the patterns you need and in total there are 1200 problems. we’re saying 1200 images assuming you need 1 image for each solution even though some chess problems have very long sequences. So for chess I need a total of 9200 images. And it’s been 18 days, where am I at? page 70/360 of my sicilian opening book. yes i’ve done well do memorize so much, an average of almost 3 pages of chess notation everyday isn’t very easy. even though it’s just 15 games. Oh and I have my computer science degree which, if I wanted to get a perfect grade on each course and memorize verbally word for word I would need like 1200 images per course, cause lately a 30 slide Powerpoint only takes me like 60-90 images, and we get one of those every week for each course. and this semester there are only 2 courses where memory is essential. which makes it 180 images per week. 13 of those and u get about 2340 images by the end of 4 months. Oh and I had a goal of “memorizing 10 000 code forces problems” I saw some problems on average a problem would take me 10 to 20 images which is 200 THOUSAND IMAGES. which I will keep procrastinating on for a while cuz there’s no way in hell I’m touching that till I’m super fast. So coding aside I roughly need 11340 images.
which is about 114 memory palaces since I can usually fit 100 images in each palace. for now I only have 25 palaces. I’ve already used up 6 of those.so soon enough I’m gonna face the problem of making new palaces. So when I look at all of this. I’m not motivated or tired. I just feel the need to start and get this going
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I dont know how to use the palace well but maybe you could try to use an Image to remember 3 words or things . I dont know how to do it but I have ideas. This way youll need less palaces. Maybe is difficult or you cant do this but you could try.
day 19 : I memorized 3 pages of text pretty easily. That’s all I did, I’m not doing much lately but I believe in slow but consistent progress so this is all good
day 20: barely memorized like half a page of text. I was super busy today
it can work but it puts a tax on your rote memorization. which means more reviews. I’m not a fan of reviews so I prefer something I can place in the long term more easily.
Ohhh I thought It’s 300. How did you remember these? 