The Slightly extended SCLAM method for learning and understanding any kind of information

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When I did the course, I thought of another letter that I thought would represent the organising process, and that it would also be easier to remember the acronym.

That letter would be “O”, Organize.

And it made more sense to me using;

SO CALM

Structure
Organize
Chunk
Associate
Locate
Memorise.

By adding “O”, it was easier to remember the acronym SOCALM, and in a way I thought it was better adding the “Organized” part as that’s also an important part of the process. So I memorised it as the “So Calm” memory method :slight_smile:

I agree.
You have actually used this method to organise the course itself, which I thought was a difficult thing to do. It is very well organised from the ground level up, covering the basics, techniques, systems and the methods to apply where it is necessary based on the material to be memorised. This helps to choose the systems and the methods suited to memorise any type of information.

Anyone who is a beginner in the art of memorising will have all the methods at their fingertips in this course.

But knowing the systems and methods is one thing, choosing which system and method to apply is another thing which is what a lot of beginners are confused with and have problems with. In this course in almost all of the videos, but especially towards the end of the course, in the practical part; you show all the “How” in Action in a lot of simplified details with the SoCALM method, which I thought was the way to teach!

I find that not only this is a good course for the beginners, but it’s a great course for the students who want to learn their subjects for long term, and to pass their exams.

Thank you for the huge efforts you made to contribute to the art of memorising with this course Chris. I appreciate it. You’ve given me a lot of good ideas from all your courses I enjoyed especially the last one the SCALM method :+1:

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There is no tool or technique you can apply to a subject like science to learn it like this. If that were the case everyone would be using it already.

The purpose of the writer of a science textbook is already to explain the material in the simplest and best way for the student to learn and understand it. The purpose of the memory techniques is to help you remember it, but you will sometimes lack context and understanding. A textbook already organizes the material for understanding. This is the one complaint about memory techniques, that you can lack the understanding.

I thought of another letter that I thought would represent the organising process, and that it would also be easier to remember the acronym.

I thought of something similar where you drop a letter - SCAM.

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“There is no tool or technique you can apply to [insert any difficult thing that most people won't do because it requires effort]. If that were the case, everyone would be using it already.”

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Well as far as I know by using The Feynman Technique you can understand what you are reading and I got this information from the Search engine of Google.

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Well I could not understand your post,Can you please explain it.
Cheers.

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Nonsense.

You can understand what you are reading ad hoc, you don’t need a special technique for it. I have an honours degree in biology and I have never, and am confident most scientists have never heard of the Feynman Technique.

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Well @primitive then I believe that you have understood what you have read and can explain it to a five year old in a language that he or she can understand as I have heard that (although these may not be the exact words as I am relying on my memory here)“You have not understood what you have read unless you can explain it to a five year old”

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I think that I have combined the steps of encoding and consolation of memory to one step and here is an example in which you memorise a sentence of the following paragraph(and by repeating the steps below you can memorise the entire paragraph)-
“I have a great home by the most important standards. Solid roof over my head, clean sheets every week and three meals a day. I even have a pet,.” if you can count a rat smelling like a thousand sewers among pets"

Step 1. Go near an object in your memory palace.

Ex - I go near a bed in the bedroom of my memory palace.

Step 2. Associate information to that object.

Ex - I associate my home with that bed.

Step 3 - Imagine that the object which you associate with information is leaking.

Ex - I Imagine that great amounts of 24 carats of gold is leaking from my bed.

Step 4. Proportionally increase and decrease the size of the object which is leaking in your imagination.

Ex - I imagine that the size of my leaking bed is increasing and decreasing(proportionally) in my imagination.

Step 5 - Transform the object which you had associateed information with into another object of the same type while preserving its leaking.

Ex - In my imagination I transform the type of my bed with which I had associateed information with(which is a bed that is found in homes) into a bed that is commonly found in hostels from which great amounts of 24 carat gold is still leaking.

Step 6 - Proportionally increase and decrease the size of your Transformed object.

Ex - In this step I keep on proportionally increasing and decreasing the size of my transformed bed which is found in hostels.

Step 7. Considalate your memory by imagining an event happening outside the room of your memory palace with relevant information and try to use as many senses as possible.

Ex - Imagine watching a group of people from the window of your memory palace burning a great palace of an important king(imaginary king) with the most important standards and then hear that imaginary king saying “I have the most important standards”.

Note - The above example only two senses are used which are the senses of sight and hearing but you can use as many senses as possible.

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No offence, @primitive, but I don’t think you had to learn too many books in your life, otherwise you wouldn’t be talking as simply about a task as difficult as memorizing abstract texts. The truth is that no matter how well you understand an abstract text, memorizing it is difficult if you do not apply a systematic method.
Even after reading very well and understanding the text, if you have to memorize it (as is the case when studying for an exam), you will need an effective learning method.

As for your joke with SCAM :disappointed:, I would not omit the Localization step in learning, the Loci method being very efficient for memorizing hundreds of items in order.

PS.
SCAM is an uninformed opinion.

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I didn’t say that you can’t use techniques to memorize - that’s mostly what we’re all here for. I said understanding is different and won’t work the same.

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Well I am attempting to make a variation of the SCLAM method and so far I have completed the Chunk and Locate Part of the SCLAM method along with adding Spaced Repetition and The Feynman Technique to the SCLAM method and my partial variation of the SCLAM method by which I was able to memorise 80% of the concepts of 14 paragraphs of a long Science book is below and feedback to complete this partial variation of this variation of this memory technique by which I think that even texts with many different grammar types can be memorised(which I think are hard to memorise).
And the steps for memorising information with this technique are as follows -

  1. Use the Method of Loci.

  2. Place Memory Areas in relevant locations or even under objects(Rectangles in which only a single type of objects can be placed dependent upon the type of the initial object over which the memory area was placed) which must be assinged a colour associated with the sentence which you are learning.

  3. Use the Feynman Technique and even it’s extensions if needed.

And When you are about to forget information associated with any object then for performing Spaced Repetition with that object you must perform the five steps which must be used for encoding and retrival -

  1. Imagine that the respective object or even objects(whose information that you are about to forget) is leaking.
    Perhaps a bed leaking with Water,Gold or even Soup.

  2. Proportionally increase and decrease the size of that object or even objects.
    Perhaps by making a bed Big and Small.

  3. Perform an action associated with your life,
    Perhaps by drinking the Gold leaking from the bed from a Glass which you use regularly.

  4. Change the type of the object.Ex- By making a bed used in houses transform into a bed used in hostels.

  5. Repeat the Step 2 and Step 3.

And this partial technique has two steps of the SCLAM technique which is Localisation(by using The Method of Loci) and Chunking(by using Memory Areas) and I plan to complete this partially complete memory technique by adding the Structure,Associate and Memorise Steps to complete this memory technique,
Cheers.

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This is a bunch of nonsense and I don’t know how to answer it.

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Its a bit too long… It’s not worth it

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No offence to Chris M.Nemo that I follow! But the Scalm method is simply a mix of all mnemo technics used like a bundle that needs to be used in a specific order to make it efficient. I believe hundreds of people have already used it by giving another person and other names. But If you get the first to publish an existing methodology, you can get the credits to be the creator. If you are an active learner and a natural solutionist thinker, you can come up with an idea like this, and I already did it for myself. But the scalm tells you to follow a specific order when coding your information using technics created by others. I would prefer that it is a method that Chris popularizes and has already been used by some anonymous people for decades rather than a pure creation.
How many times have we seen people creating things but then those creations took to another level by someone that knew how to make those creation popular.

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I would consider using this method if I could remember the steps :slight_smile: The acronym by itself doesn’t work so well for me, I am afraid.