I spend a couple of days speed navigating in the obstacle course and it felt very promising. So today I decided to give the actual memorisation a try. It became very obvious that when I do this the number to object translating is a lot worse than when I only focus on translating. The whole purpose of the obstacle cousrse was to create a flow that is superior to that of a normal memory palace, but that flow only happens in combination with speed translation of numbers.
some thought on number to object translating:
It has been my experience, that when it takes a lot of training to get this translating speed to a high level, the aquired level will drops really fast after you stop with or decrease your training. And on top of that, I must admit that training this translation part of the memory system is something I just don’t like doing very much.
more ranting on the New memory system for fast translation of numbers:
Obviously it is not as fast as I hoped it would be, but there is more “wrong” with this system; let’s take a long random number sequence: 33 54 89 87 23 45 12 97 42.
This is pronounced as: moe sak fag fat nam kas in gat kan. I don’t think that many people can even pronounce these sounds at the world record speed of a deck of cards memorisation.
and finally about tha obstacle course:
When you have a unused warehouse (allow me to remind you that my memory palace consists largely of the warehouse I work) and can’t find a new customer (the warehouse I work is partly empty and the search for a new customer has been going on for quite some time) it might be a good idea to change it into an obstacle course. So because my memory palace wasn’t used much, I turned it into exactly that. And I realised that:
- the original memory palace doesn’t have much value as a frame for the obstacle course; the faster you go, the more you focus on the obstacles and the less you are aware of where you are in the original memory palace;
- Having made a memory palace/obstacle course hybrid I can safely say, that if were to make a new virtual obstacle course without using a memory palace as a frame it would be much better.