Bestselling author and Memory Palace enthusiast, Anthony Metivier is the founder of the Magnetic Memory Method, a systematic, 21st Century approach to memorizing foreign language vocabulary, dreams, names, music, poetry and much more in ways that are easy, elegant, effective and fun.
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Thanks for your interest in TVM. There’s definitely a bit of overlap. The reasons to read t include learning more about memory, discovering ways to increase focus through meditation and discovering a new way to think about consciousness.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I'm a strange one for sure, but essentially, it all started for me with the rules of Triginometry, the Soh/Cah/Toa rules then led to more 'triangular' patterns such as the Voltage, Current, and Resistance equations. Also speed, wavelength and frequency of light, and then in 2012 I came across the idea that Energy is a Triangle...at that point the whole world of physics opened up, although from a different geometric foundation than what mainstream credentialed academics would deem possible. When you tessellate triangles, something unexpected happens. Triangles tessellate to form "Square" numbers. You can do all sorts of mathematical manipulation of triangles, using Algebraic formula, and when using the mental mnemonic, it's super easy to formulate a myriad of physical relationships, no need for notes. I carry physics in my memory banks. Much too complicated to type out with words, but with geometry as the guide, mathematics begins to make a lot more sense. So, if triangles are Squares, the number of triangles running up the apex represents the square root of energy, which is essentially linear momentum or the square root of scalar energy fields. The Tetractys of Pythagoras also holds secret mnemonics related to triangular numbers, ratios in musical notes, scale structures, and much much more. Mental mnemonics are useful in so many ways. See Wayne Roberts and his Scale Sturcture Theory, and Kelvin Abraham with his Tetryonics and you'll get a better view of the power of raw geometric relationships, once you see how energy itself is actually a triangle. The holy trinity, the law of three, and so many other triple actions are combined in a single approach thus restoring intuition to physics. Not the easiest to explain in words but viewing the images, you'll start to see how powerful this approach really is. I continue to map philosophy, historical information, and I encode as much as I can into shapes first, just as you've described.
Thanks kindly for your interest in my training. Yes, there is a full suite of courses, but I recommend people take my free course first (link in the description). Please let me know if you have any questions about signing up and I'll get back to you a.s.a.p.
Anthony, your passion for memory techniques has transformed countless lives. Your wisdom and generosity inspire us all. Thank you for being a guiding light.
16 years ago I experimented with this idea. I concluded that it does not really work. It does not fit our brains well. I can add that with a more natural loci method I was able to memorize 4000 digits of Pi.
Any stats on how long you spent and for what kind of information? As you can tell by the examples given in this video, pi definitely would not be a recommendation at all for this approach. Would love to hear more specifics on your experience.
Hi anthony im a member of your magnetic memory website bought everything. Ever heard of a thing where i try to picture something in my mind and all I see are just blank patches of gray or black or orange. For example if you say to me think of an apple i cant literraly picture that in my mind its bizaare.
Thanks for having the course. Mnemonically speaking, this isn't such a big issue because mnemonics do not require mental picturing in order to work. For a deep dive into how I solved this issue for myself with references to successful memory competitors who have no mind's eye, please see: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y0Z88TSKejw.html As you proceed, focus as specifically as possible on the Magnetic Modes, specifically the C-mode. Over time, many, if not all the others should open up for you. For now, the fact that we can type and read to share this correspondence means you will do just fine, even if a bit of extra fiddling might be involved. It certainly was for me, and I'm so glad I persisted.
I used to daydream in my brain like I was watching movies that never existed, but nowadays it's just a huge void, a complete and utter void. It's even hard for me to fall asleep because I can't imagine anything…
Perhaps give this tutorial a watch: Thanks for having the course. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y0Z88TSKejw.html Does it help you out?
Thinking can indeed be entertaining... I'd almost (and I do mean almost) go so far as to say that if thinking isn't entertaining, it's not being done well.
does getting better at doing this eventually give you a personal "3d virtual reality" in your imagination like the one Nikola Tesla claims he used to design his inventions? edit: good lord what is this channel
It's possible that you'll experience an outcome like this, but none of us knows exactly what Tesla's imagination was like. And he clearly used more than his imagination as part of the invention process, so it's important to think critically about our ideas about other people while focusing on being the best possible version of ourselves.
The way it seems to work for me is that when I have something properly encoded into a mind palace I have an experience somewhere between the mythical "I must go to my mind palace" and the instant recall of just knowing something. Maybe it's down to the fact that I tend to think in pictures anyway but I tend to "see" flashes of the mnemonic imagery in my head, instantly flash in my mind as I am attempting to recall the information, I don't generally need to think about where I put it or which mind palace it is in, that's an indication I haven't done enough recall rehearsal yet, and I don't need to consciously decode the image, but it does just pop up all on its own without me searching for it or calling on it necessarily. That's just my own experience anyways
That is a good "stress test" of where things are at with the process. A huge part of the greatness of this technique is that you don't have to wait for an app to remind you or enter a 1-5 self-test metric. You just know purely from the basis of your own mind.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM that's one of the things I love about the way this works is that there's a lot less ambiguity as to rather or not I know something and how deeply, I know to what degree I know the material
Interesting that you made a video about using geometric shapes. I've been pondering the concept of the invisible memory palace recently (just a blackened cube). I've also used a cube to recall info in a speech/research project. I originally got the idea from a box my father used in a toastmasters presentation when I was very young. Keep up the good work Dr. Metivier.
Cubes and coloring the cubes is definitely one of the most direct ways to do this. It could be interesting to have more than one color per cube in some kind of systematic way.
I will need to start a trial with this system. My issue with using a "traditional" memory palaces is that my mind tries too hard to associate things based on the location of real places. With something more abstract, I can basically construct my own and it will take the shape of itself (like your example with using Germany to pass a German immigration exam). The part with the organizing information is also inspiring me to experiment to combine geometry with mind maps for the purposes of notetaking. Not sure how I might want to go about it since mind maps are generally free-flowing, but other mind map teachers do use rectangles to mark the main idea and ovals or ellipses as the main points branching from the center. This actually reminds me the basics of drawing and 3D animation. In any drawing class, the one thing they teach is to imagine an object as a a collection of geometric shapes (squares, cubes, circles, spheres) and the variations of those shapes. In 3D art and also computer aided design, while those two techniques are different, the basics is that every object is a collection of "primitives" (3D speak for geometric shape) combined together with elements. The Geometric Memory Palace has this potential of becoming a collection of shapes to become a whole scene.
Definitely making up one's own shapes is a key, and in fact the basics of what the Memory Palace technique is (each journey is effectively a constellation of shapes that are usually unique to the individual).
I’d have to look at the test specifically to answer meaningfully. Generally, I would cull out the key points and place them in Memory Palaces for use with Recall Rehearsal and the four other main levels of processing.
Thank you Anthony for another inspiring avenue of exploration! I’m a huge fan of sacred geometry, I’ll definitely try it out. In your experience, is anchoring images to a shape self-sufficient in terms of loci magnetism, or does it add more staying power to place that shape in a real-life location? (Like the example you gave of the desk of cards that is on a desk in I believe your former apartment in Berlin?) On the topic of chaos training, I was reading Rhetorica ad Herrennius two days ago and Cicero (or whomever the author might have been) gives that very advice, train your memory with harder to recall things in order to have it fully functional on the fly as you need it. BTW, I’m taking a deep dive into ars rhetorica these days, and if you’re ever interested in re-visiting the topic of the links between mnemonics and rhetoric with all that you’ve learned since your ted talk, I’d be super interested in hearing what you have to say on the topic👌
Thanks as always for your great comments and support. I personally find that using real life locations is better, but I do add geometry to them sometimes, as in my TEDx Talk and the F.R.E.E. example. The fact that the background is real and very familiar assists in adding these elements. In terms of rhetoric, I'm not sure if you have gone through the speech course in the MMM Masterclass, but I discuss a few of the techniques I deployed in there. I might revisit it again in the future on RU-vid, and please let me know if you have any questions about it. Long story short, the key thing is to read a lot, write a lot and be conscious of opportunities to use rhetorical devices... and not use them. I would say that I decline to use them more often than not and generally save them for very special occasions.
A relative short video, but so many gold nuggets in there! Simple squares with 4 or 8 data points work best for me, hands down. No other geometrical shape i played around with served as well as the square. Second best is the "clock" (circle). But the pillar and the triangle you mention in the video also look very helpful, so I will use them in my next memory palace for sure. Thanks again, Anthony!
Glad you found some useful ideas here. I have used clock-like structures before and discussed that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3I7h98IKaho.html It's basically another way of looking at the same thing.
Some people have told me that some mandalas do indeed expand into something much like mansions that the users walk around. As for the fractals, the key would be to have Recall Rehearsal always in view for maximum results. Otherwise, it wouldn't really matter if it can be done.
If you use the faces of a dodecahedron as your palace, you could roll a d12 for recall training. Then, instead of going to the next or previous number, look at the surrounding numbers on the die for further recall practice.
Could be expanded on if you use a full set of rpg dice. Tetrahedrons, hexahedrons, octahedrons, pentagonal trapezohedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons. @@AnthonyMetivierMMM
This method is really attractive to me I think I will try to memorize some poetry with this, though probably not soon (yet); this really appeals to me as I sort of feel that the normal place memory palace technique has the connection between what's memorized and the place to be a bit too arbitrary, but with this it seems to me that I could appropriate better what's memorized with where
That can't be true. Otherwise, who would teach me? There are many, many people better than me - astonishingly so. But I appreciate your kind words very much.
Hello and thank you for your valuable work. Bit of an unrelated topic to the video, but definitely related to memory. Say I wanted to remind myself to correct my posture every time I pass through a doorway. Is it possible to create that association in my mind? Usually when I try to do that, eventually I just forget to do that and the association disappears.
I work on this, as it happens. But rather than make it a memory task as such, I do Qigong and some Tai Chi pretty much daily, with weekly push ups, squats and leg raises. There are also daily breathing and yoga postures too. Stretches in doorways are good to learn as well, and in this way, every time you pass through a door it can remind you of your posture. But ultimately, it seems to me that actual physical exercise is ultimately the key along with minimal screen time, particularly on mobile.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Hello and thank you for your answer. I'm afraid I didn't make my question clear enough. I was using the correction of my posture as an example of wanting to remind myself of something, but it can be anything really. I am wondering is it possible to create an association in my mind between passing through a doorway and doing something, so that that action becomes automatic when I pass through a doorway. I hope that my question is clearer now. Thank you for your time nonetheless.
It is definitely possible to work on that, @SpesRubra-lv2mw. It's possible that you'll get it into procedural memory. However, I don't think mnemonics are the best possible approach to trying to remind oneself of something. Largely, mnemonics have to do with instilling verbatim information and/or semantic material with some applications to procedural and prospective memory. Here's one thing to consider that I've done: When I wanted to learn a particularly challenging cardistry move, I left a deck of cards on a part of the counter I always walked passed. I would see it, pick it up and execute the moves. Then put it back down. This was much more effective than trying to construct a mnemonic solution to remind myself of my commitment to learning the butterfly cut. I just made it impossible to ignore, and all the more so because of the nature of the skill I was studying. Hope this helps!
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If I remember correctly, Tony Buzan's argument for multiple colours is that a single colour is "boring" to the brain. He rhetorically presents this as a play on monochrome-monotone for one colour. So, that a mono-tone MindMap is "monotonous" to the brain. I presume, that he says three or more, rather than two, because it is generally the minimum that has produced the greatest results in his work.
