Read some diaries on this forum, I liked the idea and decided to make one too, I think it will help me remember to maintain a routine. Now that I have a lot of free time, I will start implementing some projects that have already been planned. There will be days when I won’t be able to invest in these projects so I won’t update this topic daily, but I will update it whenever I do something notable related to the projects I will do here.
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Projects that will start this month:
The first thing I intend to do is memorize one palace a day, I will use an average of 1 hour a day to memorize new palaces, and if it is too big I will have to divide it and memorize it in parts, especially if it is a mansion with some dozens of rooms. If there is not enough time to accumulate enough palaces for future projects, I will increase a few more hours to memorize more palaces and try new techniques to memorize palaces more efficiently.
On the 10th of this month I will start another project which will be to start learning English, I will memorize a list of 5000 most used words in English with the IPA and organized in alphabetical order, I will use at least 1 hour a day to memorize this list, while I will study other things about grammar, expressions, everything necessary to be able to create dialogues and write some texts. Until I have a decent English vocabulary, I will continue using Google Translate.
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Thanks, I’m going to need a little luck, it has worked well for me to memorize palaces and then use some already memorized palaces to memorize anything, I usually keep a stock of empty palaces in case I need to memorize something or take a test, but I memorize palaces and I only choose where the loci will be when I’m going to use a palace to memorize something
Day 1
Today I spent about 50 minutes to memorize a total of 2 palaces, one with 3 rooms and the other with 7 rooms, and I used the remaining 10 minutes to interact with the palace and add some more details and see the ones I had forgotten, and thus I completed 1 hour dedicated to creating palaces, it took me on average 5 minutes to memorize a room with the most interesting and notable furniture and objects, and depending on the size I could end up taking around 7 to 10 minutes
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I forgot to do day 2 yesterday so I’ll do it today
Day 2
Yesterday I memorized 1 apartment that I saw on a tour on YouTube, it was a bit annoying since I had to keep taking screenshots or rewinding the video, so I think I’ll keep using more houses/apartments with 360° photos that are on Matterport , it’s less complicated and easier to look around, the floor, the ceiling. And I forgot to time the time it took me to memorize it
Day 3
Today, I memorized about 2 palaces, a total of 7 memorized rooms, and I did it in 47m and I used about 10m to interact with it and check if there was anything I forgot, and to check if I forgot anything I have placed my Alphabet PAO with D&D monsters and some animals and insects on the furniture and objects that I want to remember from that room, and this has made it a lot easier
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Day 4
Today I couldn’t do anything so I only reviewed some palaces when I was waiting for the bus.
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Day 5 (It would be yesterday around here, it’s around 3:40 in the morning)
I memorized just 1 palace and I started planning an organization of palaces to organize the words that I was going to memorize, first I counted how many words started with each letter (of course, most of those that have a large quantity I did a calculation to get an approximate value)
Number of words starting with each letter:
A 280
B 684
C 543
D 327
E 251
F 301
G 133
H 148
I 150
J 44
K 44
L 153
M 216
N 91
O 106
P 342
Q 22
R 267
S 603
T 312
U 60
V 72
W 182
X 2
Y 22
Z 9
It has an average of 5,364 words
And as after finishing memorizing these words, I gradually add other words as I see them in books, films, etc., I did the same with a dictionary of 20,000 most used words, I had seen on the internet that an adult native knows about 20,000-30,000 words, if things go well in the future I will continue putting words in my palaces, maybe I will try to memorize vocabulary from another language using the link method, but as I will only know later I will prepare a space to memorize up to 20,000 words (Not exactly but I want to leave a good space where you are more likely to have large amounts of words and not run out of space)
1,268 words
B 955 words
C 2,127 words
D 1,272 words
E 1,120 words
F 1,897 words
G 600 words
H 600 words
I 1,125 words
J 158 words
K 116 words
L 600 words
M 930 words
N 321 words
O 426 words
P 1,430 words
Q 122 words
R 1,105 words
S 2,092 words
T 855 words
U 526 words
V 343 words
W 429 words
X 7 words
Y 41 words
Z 18 words
In total, approximately 20,483
Note: I did a calculation to obtain an approximate value of words that begin with each letter in the 20k dictionary with most used words so that I can have an idea of how much space I will have to leave to memorize the vocabulary that I acquire over time.
If you compare the 20k dictionary with the 5k dictionary, it has a much larger number of words that start with A, especially those that start with the letter C, it has 4x more words, while B doesn’t make that much of a difference, I’ll have to think about how to organize when the difference is very large, as in the case of words that start with the letter A and C, maybe leave a space between the words that start with AB, AC, AD, AE…
Maybe this way I don’t have much space, and there is an astronomical distance between the words I’m memorizing, I can leave a smaller space and place some paintings or portals to take me to a smaller palace.
So far this was the best idea I’ve had, if anyone has any ideas for organizing space to memorize a good amount beyond 5k I’d love to hear it, it doesn’t necessarily have to be an organization that has space to memorize 20k words, I just want to avoid problems with lack of space to memorize vocabulary after memorizing the 5k.
Agora que fui perceber que você escreveu em português, mas tinha achado estranho o “Ae bixo”, “Fica ligado”, entre outras expressões virem numa tradução de algum idioma kkkkk
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Day 6
Today I took off, but it will only be this week, I will train and study this Sunday and then I will take Sundays off since for me it is the best day for that, I was doing research related to study, memorization and I have often seen people say that it is good to take a day off a week, and they said that this would bring benefits for learning, well-being and other things that I don’t remember well, I still have to research more, but I will make a comparison to see if I notice any difference
Day 7
I couldn’t do anything
Day 8
I memorized 1 palace and due to many unforeseen circumstances I had to postpone my project of memorizing vocabulary a little longer
Day 9
I couldn’t do anything because I slept poorly, and also because of a pain in my arm, it wasn’t strong but it was a constant pain, I couldn’t concentrate on anything thanks to it, and it only went away the next day.
Day 10
That day I also couldn’t do anything related to memory, generally I memorize palaces at night or in the morning, that day I went to do it at night but there was no power around here, there was a huge area without power, I couldn’t even see any place with a light on. Thanks to this event, I’m thinking about leaving some prints of tours, or videos saved in my cell phone’s memory in case something like this happens again.
Day 11
Today I memorized 1 palace and trained my PAO system that I made to memorize the IPA of English words
Day 12
I memorized 1 palace
Day 13
I didn’t memorize any palaces, but I practiced my visualization of thermal sensations for about 40 minutes, it was fun to try to visualize a fire in my hand and try to visualize the feeling of heat, but my visualization of these things is still very bad, they are terrible
Day 14
Today I memorized 1 palace that I trained my visualization of perception by walking in my imaginary palace, which I created in my mind without using parts of rooms I already know, it is still a huge challenge to leave the perspective of the normal place when walking, for some I still don’t know why , it is much more difficult to imagine changing the perspective of things while walking in a scenario that I created than in a scenario that I memorized, I have to try new things to get perspective, I think that maybe the structure of the scenario I made could cause me problems, so the day after tomorrow I will try to create another imaginary palace, but paying more attention to creating each detail, I think I’ll make a sketch of the scenery and where some things will be, so I can add the details and build my palace little by little, perhaps what causes this problem of perspective is related to the poor creation of the palace, so perhaps if while I am creating my palace every now and then I stop to visualize it in its entirety from a distant perspective, as if I had in my hand a transparent cube from which you can see all the edges, even the back ones.
Today my flu symptoms increased a little, but I’m already taking medication and I hope it doesn’t get worse and could end up interfering with my studies and mental training (mental calculation, memorization, visualization) in some way.
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Day 15
Today I didn’t have much time so I trained my thermal sensation visualization using a candle in real life, this time I tried to visualize the lighting too, which was quite challenging, especially trying to visualize the heat and lighting without forgetting to visualize the space where I was, and I ended up forgetting about trying to create a palace from scratch that I had mentioned.
Day 16 – I made an imaginary mental palace, and it took me a long time, I spent about 2 hours to make just 1 room and do some simple tests, and with this imaginary mental palace I managed to solve the problem I had when walking through the other, and I realized that my errors were:
Error 1 – Leaving some very large spaces without anything very notable along the way, and this made some places not have an exact size, the proportion itself was ridiculous, for example, imagine there is a wall 10m long, if I tried to walk from one end to the other I would have only walked 10m, but if I were to walk from one end to the other without using the wall as a reference point I could end up walking about 30m, but that’s because I wanted a large space with grass, some trees to practice visualizing things related to vegetation in a quiet place, and I made a not very straight place with some slight irregularities in the ground and almost all the ground was covered with one type of grass, and there were some scattered trees, most of them trees are not necessarily important to know what each one looks like and where they are, there are some areas where I only imagine trees scattered randomly, there are only a few specific trees that I knew most of their details, which were the ones I memorized and used in some training and tests, because these parts are very similar, it ended up generating this problem when I walked through it as a result.
Mistake 2 – In places where there were things like shelves, tables, candles or torches, I built the place around them very poorly, so much so that I could only remember the objects well and some parts of the landscape, at the time I hardly reviewed the palace, I only visited from time to time when I wanted to test some things or memorize more things on the boards, but I stopped using the boards very quickly when I saw that it wasn’t working.
My solution with creating my new imaginary mind palace:
My mistakes were pretty stupid and quite obvious, although it took me a while to realize it, maybe because I did almost the same things every time I entered it, but I managed to understand it after analyzing every part of it.
This time I planned the idea of the palace on paper, I made the sketch quickly and I went into it and tried to visualize each thing in its proper place, this time the place is not very big, I made the land with earth and this time I did a lot more irregularities throughout the space, I left some places higher and took advantage of these places to place some trees that I had memorized, I won’t be polluting the natural environment with things I didn’t want to make it easier to walk around the place, this time I didn’t fill everything with grass, I left some spaces with soil, some with sand, I even added clay like that from a lake, I increased the diversity of the size and type of grass, I left some places with little grass and others with a lot of grass, and I also placed other plants in addition to the grass in some specific places, I made a path with stone bricks and placed some torches along the way, and each torch I placed was different from the others and I placed them using some reference points, I measured reference points whenever I was going to place other things, and by using landmarks and trying to visualize the palace as if I were seeing a model of a house that I could see in my hand, it was actually more like a 3D hologram, and with these things I was able to walk around without that exaggerated perception change problem, now the only perception change problem I have is the same one I have in normal palaces that I have memorized, but luckily these get better and better, in the next few days I will add more details to things, maybe remove some If it seems like there’s too much stuff, I’m thinking about adding some flowers and memorizing some fruit trees that we have here at home.
More descriptions of the palace:
A lake with a waterfall coming out of a pile of rocks, some normal-sized water lilies in the lake, I’ve never seen a real one but I made them 1 meter and a few centimeters in diameter forming a path from one side to the other , and a little to the side, closer to the wall of the palace, a giant one near a cave close to the ground with a desk and an old wooden chair full of beautiful details, next to it there is a cave that I recycled from my first imaginary palace that I created, when I made it I placed a shelf in the cave and placed some pictures in the same way we usually place books on shelves (sideways and vertically), I placed the pictures on the side showing some details so I could know the content of each one in the place where it shows the name of the book, author and publisher in the books, I put some 2d images on it, drew, and I could remember it well even after revising it little, but the more I put more pictures next to it in a row the more difficult it became to remember the order and quantity they had, and then it became difficult to remember the content, but now that I know a lot about memory techniques and I’m going to redo my tables, I’m just going to make the information much more memorable, and to know the order, I will place a few pictures per row of the shelf, I will separate the rows into parts and I will use my Alphabet PAO to remember the order of the pictures that come next, on this shelf I was memorizing all the washing symbols that are on the clothing labels here , I’m finally going to test and see how these frames will look with light memorized information, especially when I have several of them.
Due to some problems I’m going to be without internet access for the next 2 or 3 days, and so unfortunately when I start memorizing vocabulary it won’t be possible to post it here, with the amount of palaces I have it will be enough to start some projects, but I’m going to have to invest more time in memorizing palaces.
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Day 17
I memorized 1 palacios, and I spent all my free time training my alphabet PAO and a part of my PAO to memorize numbers, I only did 0-9 with people in my class when I was at school, because I had done the rest with anime characters but it didn’t work well, so I’m going to recreate it until the end of the year, choosing only very unique characters that I find as I remember or read more mangas/manhwas, watch movies, this time I’m going to include more real people too and I will use Shper System
Day 18
That day I finished all my preparations by organizing and connecting the palaces with portals, and I placed my palaces in anki
19th day
I started to test a different and less detailed approach when memorizing palaces, generally I see the details and visualize what I just saw, and memorize the colors of the furniture, ceramics, wall, ceiling, the details and each curve of the two pieces of furniture (especially those older), but I did it differently with a small palace, it has 3 rooms and I managed to memorize it in 10 minutes without visualizing anything other than my Alphabet PAO interacting with the environment and objects, my brain filled in a good part of the details and colors that were missing, but after creating a few more this way I’ll do a test by memorizing random things in palaces like this and in normal palaces that I’m going to create to see if this lack of details won’t interfere too much in the way I memorize things, I’ll memorize about 2 small palaces in each of these two ways and test them soon
Day 20
I memorized an average palace with about 7 rooms in 40m and I started memorizing the mini dictionary of most used words and I had a slightly worse result than I expected, in 1 hour I managed to memorize only 23 words, with a meaning and the IPA, it took a long time, mainly because of the IPA(it still took me a while to use my PAO system that I made for the IPA and also in the dictionary I have they make a modification of some IPA characters, so I have to translate the dictionary modification and then use my system) and because it was a different language than I know, I took a look at the words and saw that there are many words that I don’t think I will need to memorize IPA, there are many words that I would probably remember the sound of just by remembering of the word, the sound and the words seem too much so I think that from now on I will only memorize the IPA when I have some difficulty remembering the pronunciation of a word, or when I come across words that I’m sure I won’t know how to pronounce, If I end up forgetting the sound of the words because I don’t memorize the IPA, then I’ll memorize the entire IPA of the words I’ve already memorized. I also reread some topics about the dictionary, vocabulary because I wasn’t remembering a good way to deal with very similar words like “Abduct” and “Abduction”, I just memorized things in order so I ended up memorizing these words and broke my head a little, for Abduct I imagined Abed from community with a duck on his head, Abe+duck, I’m already very familiar with “Duck” which is very different from the word for duck in my language, so I thought of using this word in English to memorize another one and it worked well, I believe that after learning new words I will be able to memorize more words much more easily, I hadn’t thought about using words in English to memorize others, as for “Abduction” I couldn’t think about how to do it differently than what I did with “Abduction”, then I thought about imagining Abed being abducted by the mouth of Abed who is next to me representing “Abduct”, so with that alone I can’t think of the meaning of each one, but next time I will analyze the next 60 words and see if there are any that I already know or that I don’t need to memorize like “Abduct” and “Abduction”, they mean almost the same thing, I don’t even know how I would make a different image for the meaning them without many complications.
I’ll review this text tomorrow to see if there are any errors that I can spot with other translators.
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Well, here I am after struggling miserably, cough cough, last year I discovered this topic to see if it would give me a little push to continue doing the things I wanted to do, but it ended up having the opposite effect, and I ended up discovering that I’m too lazy to do even things that I really like, this hadn’t worked out very well mainly because of a deadline that I created myself, these deadlines and my laziness helped me ruin my project, hahahaha.
I’m going to start over, but I won’t spend as much time writing as before and I won’t set deadlines for any tasks, from now on I’ll only come here to update this “diary” once or twice a month or as many times as I feel like, depending on the amount of things I manage to do, and that’s it, I’m going to start over again from the beginning.
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This day started on the last day of last month, I decided that I would go back to training word memorization and vocabulary, but lately I have been interested in an artificial language that I found very interesting, the language is called Toki Pona, it has about 120 words, since there are few words I decided to write the words down as well, on this day I spent about 30m writing down some words, specifically nouns and verbs, I also transcribed some meanings, but while I was writing I tried to quickly think of mental images for them and tried to play around with their meanings a little, letting my mind wander (daydreaming), so I spent about 30m memorizing using a piece of my kitchen, since I don’t remember many of the palaces I memorized (maybe less than 15) and I also wanted to test memorizing more than one word in the same space, I memorized only 2 words in the same place and after 30m memorizing I managed to memorize about 21 words.
Yesterday I did basically the same thing, but I spent 20 minutes memorizing about 30 words. I tried to do a really fast memorization, and I definitely beat my record. I had never managed to memorize so many words in such a short time when memorizing words in English or any other language that is not so familiar with writing and speaking. So I waited a few hours and went to take a look at the palace and saw that I could only remember 3 words. Something had gone very wrong. Then I spent 40 minutes memorizing everything again, but while I was trying to think of mental images for the words, I remembered most of the images I had created before. So this time, I spent more time trying to create better images and fit them better into the environment. After every 10 words I memorized, I reviewed the previous ones and did this until I memorized 41 words. I memorized half of them in the same spaces in which I memorized the words from the previous day. Today when I woke up I went to the palace again and I just couldn’t remember 4 word, which was one that I memorized two days ago. I memorized these words by leaving them almost next to each other, there is very little space between them, this made it difficult to memorize some specific images, but in those parts I used my PAO that I use to memorize letters like Tag, and that solved the problem, in today’s memorization I will try to memorize the words in miniature, reducing my size to navigate in my palace
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