With music, memorizing the notes, with and sharps/ flats, you have to do it backwards, and create like 2 or 3 mnemonic stories for memorizing the orders of theory, but in a timely rhythm. Make sure to practice breathing in time while you do it, as well as blinking after every fourth breath. Also, you can trace each letter in a different way than you would write it, after writing it, and write it with your other hand. All of that gives your mind something else to focus on, to trick your brain into thinking that you’re trying to memorize distraction, while bypassing short term memory. The more random your stories, funny, or ridiculous, the quicker You come up with something. You can remember that the sky isn’t blue because the grass isn’t green, to really memorize all the details. You’re welcome.
Hi there, great livestream! I've recently become curious about memory techniques and I'm not really sure if I understand PAO systems correctly: does that mean that one should be able to quickly imagine at least 300 images (3*100)? How many months would it take to be fluent in such a system? Are there any pre-made systems readily available online or do you suggest creating one's own?
My method: A - it's a single dot. B - add another dot under a C - start with a, but add a dot next to it Memorize those three first until its perfect D - add a dot under C on the right E - it's braille A with a diagonal F - it's literally an F without the dash g - it's the F from earlier but with an extra dot. Alternatively, G is fat so it makes a square. H - it's an h I - i and e are in a lot of words (believe, science, and so on). So it's the opposite of e J - it's a j K - k has two halves (top and bottom). But it's one dot top and one dot bottom L - the letter l on the left M - i don't have anything clever. It's just a c with an extra dot N - it's m with an extra dot O - it's the right half of an o P - it's a P Q - it's a backward Q shape (or you can remember G and add a tail) R - it's the pointy part of an R S - a snake T - a Tetris squiggle U - a u shape with chunks pulled out (yeah, so clever) V - same as U but only the right chunks are gone W - reverse of the R (nothing clever) X - a more powerful k (dashes instead of dots) Y - a powerful shape (I simply memorized this one because the shape uses the most of any) Z - a Z with the top left missing
I’m sending this to my husband. His geography is terrible. I excel at geography, but I’ve also always loved looking at maps and globes so it’s happened naturally. But my poor husband 😬
Great technique. For me, I memorize by adding music and images to the text and cutting the text into chunks/phrases that make sense. Often, I can recall the entire long text just after 2-5 times looking at it.
