Hello Art of Memory
Kozarenko, the only source that I have seen on practical mnemonics (the essence of mnemonics is in practical memorization, not just in sports hobbies).
You can try to understand the content through the translator. (2021)
I had read (2020) Dominic O. Bruen’s book before him, but it was shallow and without much practice. I looked through other books, but they were repeated in the content.
Therefore, I will make a kind of summary on mnemonics, which may not be completely clear at the beginning, but in the future the misunderstanding will go away.
-
The memorization speed can range from 0.5 to 6-8 seconds. With practice, you’ll get to 2-3.5 seconds, as well as 0.5-1.
-
Knowledge = neural network connections. Your head doesn’t care what you remember. Tables, hieroglyphs, summaries, etc.
-
The brain is able to connect objects in the imagination. Imagine a pen and connect it to a book, forming an outer contour between them. It’s like Photoshop, point. The overlap of two objects.
-
A person can manually create links for memorization.
-
Links can be grouped.
-
It is necessary to be able to encode information well enough into visual images.
5.1 You can train image coding on anything: verbs, adjectives, complex terms, abbreviations, medications, etc. -
Coding comes in many forms.
6.1 A word = a visual image in the head
6.2. Break the word into parts and add the left or right part to the image.
6.3. Sound substitution and word selection
6.4. By consonants
6.5. other ways that come to mind
Any complex word can be encoded. If it doesn’t work out, then sort it out and try to pick it up in 30-60 seconds. -
Train the memorization speed on 00-99 numbers. Reach 5-7 minutes for 100 numbers. For numbers, we need figurative codes for numbers and numbers.
This is necessary for training and preparation for practical memorization. To get into the habit of linking, encoding, and decoding. Memorize on location. + speed.
- The Simonides/Cicero method is a certain sequence of objects located in a location (rooms, streets, computer game locations, etc.). A sequence of objects that is used to store information for a short time.
Make an excel spreadsheet/notepad file or write 100-300 such places on paper. That’s not much! You can even start at 25-50 and try to remember them. Locations also need to be memorized to ensure flexibility and speed. It is necessary that the sequence from 1 to N images be smooth enough so that there is no difficulty in remembering locations.
You will encounter it in everyday routine and in sports memorization. (100 numbers in 5-7 minutes)
9. Mistakes are your assistants. If something doesn’t work out for you, then analyze it. And remember
Also, don’t be afraid if you memorized the location, but you didn’t remember it when you remembered it.
9.1 Either you’re at the beginning and the mistakes are related to the fact that you’re learning new things.
9.2 You have to correct something, maybe change the way.
- Practical memorization.
It is necessary to remember that your task is to study something systematically. That is, at the beginning, general knowledge, basic, patterns, and then details and facts.
If you know a set of facts, but you can’t explain their connections and properties, then it’s not good. It’s better to do it right right away.
This principle also applies to the choice of books.
Mnemonics do not always have to be remembered much in practice. Here at your request. You remember that you have the skill, and if necessary, you can figure out and memorize mnemonics in a week.
Remember what you think you need to remember 100%, or out of curiosity, experiment with the skill (can I remember this and what effect will it have?). For a mnemonist, the desire to learn and be inquisitive is important.
Practical memorization consists of all the same operations with encoding and linking (memorization), only instead of locations, we use the allocation of 10-12 details on the object and their further separation. It’s like a cabinet with shelves that have their own shelves inside.
(How to create 1000+ places to memorize any information in an hour or less?)
-
Prepare information for memorization in advance, writing it out separately or highlighting it. Whichever is more convenient. Or memorize it immediately as you receive information, for example, in a book or text. Here it is necessary to optimize the information and not overload it with encoded images. Because if you can memorize two images, then doing 7-9 will be unnecessary. I’m looking at the situation
-
Texts. We divide it into paragraphs, find the main meaning, present it as an image, and divide it into parts. For each part, we attach the facts we need, information for memorization.
We mentally recall and move on. Then you can combine the meanings of different texts (their images), it is compact and similar to flipping through pages where there is the necessary information on various issues.
-
The rest will be clear with practice. I’ve described to you the basis by which you can understand how to proceed. I can say that the approaches are the same everywhere, with only minor differences.
-
How to remember. You imagine in your head what you have connected (encoded images of information), recall the images in order, and try to say or write what information is contained.
In the beginning, the playback speed is low, perhaps something is not very memorable, or the image is not the most suitable. Correcting it
For automatism, it is necessary to mentally repeat (over the head) 5-7 days. The speed is increasing every day, if you think about it often.
The most important thing is not to be afraid to make mistakes in this case, because here any mistake can be eliminated quickly enough. And the result pays off.
Success all!