Heey people ,
I’m a 22 year old guy from Belgium. So if you are reading my post, please forgive me for my simple english writing 
Haha.
About a month ago, i found out about mnemonics through a ted talk. I’m interested in it because first and foremost it’s an ability i would like to develope to learn about new topics that can be used in one’s everyday life.
I’ve kinda been a slacker at some times in my life and it feels like it has kept me from developing myself to the extent that is possible within myself. I’ve started changing myself by traveling the wold for a year or so, but i found out it didn’t make me more knowledgable about the world in a way or comfortable with myself.
So because of that, i am trying to make up for all that lost time by learning as much as i can about all kinds of different topics. It’s also a necessity for knowing what i’m going to study next year at my University. I felt the best way to know what you like is to study a wide arrange of different topics/studies, so that by the end of it you kinda know what you like and don’t like.
I have read moonwalking with einstein and i found the quote : " to lead an interesting life , you need to make it memorable ", to be an eye opener for myself. It’s one of those rules that every person should live by and know that if you would be depressed, you just remind yourself of that quote to start motivating yourself again, to stop living in your mom’s basement.
So i’ve started to think about thinking and how i learn the most efficient way. I found out that through visual stimuli i remember the most and that my though process can be described as thinking in concepts ( the big picture ) and that i suck with details. Mostly my thought process is like an inner dialogue with some vague visualization to it ( i guess it’s more an abstract concept of something )
And here comes the thing. My memory SUCKS! i’ll give you an example.
-I cannot recall a Single song. Serious i need to rote memorize it in order to do it. And then to retain it in my long term memory, i need to look back at it for atleast a couple of days. Other people i met can keep up to hundreds of songs in there head. How do they do this? Does it just come to them automaticly.
-I suck at remembering diaologues from people. I cannot retain what people have told me. I only know the idea of what they have told me, not the order of the words or sentences."
-It takes me long conscious thinking to remember things from the past. I blame myself for not writing things down, being arrogant to think i can remember all the information without making journals of it.
From this experience i know for sure i’m more of a kinesthetic/visual learner then an auditive one. For example:
-i remember every face i see. ( If i met you 10 years ago, i will remeber you now ) I just suck at describing certain things like eye color etc. but i know what face structure my dad or mother has, whether they have freckles, hair color hair structure/form etc.
-I learn non-verbal information better then verbal.
There a few things more but they aren’t worth mentioning atm. The idea is that i want to improve my memory by using the memory palace. I’ve read that in order to use the memory palace, a person needs to imagine a place he is familiar with and plant the idea/loci into that place.
The problem is i just suck at visualization. Does anyone else has this problem. Are there any people who at first had no visualization ability and developed one over time, or is this impossible? Is it genetics?