The key is to use your real house. Because you know your house like the back of your hand. And in every room choose 10 items and label them one through 10. And you place what you want to remember on each item
I did this after I had a major accident. Me and my best friend where struck by a truck. Since then my memory is foggy. I got examined few years after it by a doctor and explained my memory problems. The doctor was amazed by my memory even though I just lost most of mine within seconds. All I did was imagine a window with a shelf and I decorated both with things the doctors asked me to remember. To this day I cannot remember important things or dates but ask me to remember details, I'll store them on my shelf visually
If anybody's interested, this technique was pioneered by Giordano Bruno generally referred to it as the garden of memory. He was many things but I'd say he was primarily a hermeticist (an interesting rabbit hole), but he traveled around the royal courts of Europe amazing everyone with his incredible feats of mnemonics (the scientific practice of memorization). He was also the guy that was vying against Galileo for the position of mathematics professor at one of the oldest universities in Europe, the University of Padua (Venice).
@@muddbear6410 Oh wow, already knew of memory palace stuff and have been meaning to read the hermetic tradition, but I didn't realize he engaged with memory practices like that. Very interesting, I'll have to bump it up on my reading list, thanks.
I have 50 memory palaces and over 1300 individual locations or “stations”. My best accomplishment is memorizing 478/480 random digits in 1 hour. Top memory competitors can memorize 50 random words in 50 seconds and 80 random number digits in 12 seconds. 100% of memory competitors use memory palace.
This technique was discussed extensively in the book "Moonwalking With Einstein". Its written by a journalist who ends up covering a memory competition, decides he wants to compete on day, and ends up being one of the best in the world. All the while discussing the history memorization techniques and his path to learning modern techniques from other top memory competitors. Super cool
Yeah I read that book memory palaces work it's just that they take effort and your lazy. First I would recommended starting with like a 3 memory palaces. Number 1 is my house Number two is idk my school it's quite big so I could probs create 3 to 4 palaces just from that gaint
The book doesn’t really go into huge detail on how to delete or erase memory palaces. It goes into the functionality but I never found in the book of what happens when you run out of memory palaces? How do you erase old ones? That’s my main concern because I don’t want to use all of my personal memories and have to blend them with numbers and symbols for math and technical studies lol
@@Alex-ns6hj Antony Metivier (look him up, he's great memory teacher) said that since our brains Are visually oriented and that all of us have seen so many places, we basically cannot run out of places in our lifetimes. Also I have seen some memory experts going on real estate sites and looking and walk-thoughs of apartments and using them as memory palaces. So if you learn how to use them correctly you should never run out of mental space for them.
My memory castle is like Mario 64 with painting of moments in my life that I can go into and be nostalgic or in order to keep from making the same mistake twice.
A better technique than memory palace is associating things together in really weird ways. Like if I were to remember someone’s birthday and it was today (April 5) I would store a mental image of them with a clown mask (April 1) and as one of those half-people half-unicorn things (4 legs. April 1 + 4 = April 5, their birthday). We tend to forget the boring stuff so be weird and be creative. This technique got me through an engineering degree, not because I’m smart; I just can remember anything. Good luck!
Yes, but you can also use that in your memory palaces, you place the bizarre images in specific parts of your palace, that's the optimal way, also you can assign order in the room you're using so you can memorize lists in the right order with little or no effort, it's truly magical, it should be taught in schools on the first years, we would have a different world
It is quite interesting that this video is cut out to make it look like Jordan actually uses the memory castle. In the full video, that is not what he said. He uses a different method. In the video, Jordan said that he has a broad theory that he has been working on for a long time, and he plugs anything he reads into that broad theory. And because he knows the full outline of that theory, he can lay out fully, and it would take about 50 hours to fully lay it out. That is how he remembers what he reads. In that theory of his, everything is connected in some way. The method mentioned in this short was a method that he says "has been used by many people for centuries" not him.
Which when you think about it, is totally meaningless. Everyone remembers everything that way. You use knowledge you have to inform your understanding of everything else. Sometimes he says utter rubbish and people act like hes a genius.
@@carrotsandrunning Actually Jordan says a lot of good stuff. I don’t think he’s a genius. I just think he is trying to be as honest as he can be about anything he says. He does not say utter rubbish. I am yet to see him do that. He just talks a lot when trying to make a point. It seems to me that when you refer to what he says as rubbish it is due to the fact that you are unable to follow his logic or reasoning. Of course he does not make it easy to do so, but to say he is just saying utter rubbish says more about the length of your quality attention span than it says about JBP’s speech.
That sounds complicated...I use his patented metaphysical substrate technique instead..throw a bunch of word salad around for and hour and see what happens.
Terrible unnatural if u wanna remember something your brain will give it to u when its needed all the books u read of course u will forget alot of it but when ur in conversation discussing a particular subject usually with emotion your brain is able to draw on it let moments trigger memory never force it
no, that’s actually for understanding. being able to draw out the dots before connecting them helps you get an understanding of what ur learning. to actually retain the info, this technique would be better than js trying to memorize words, but it won’t do much longterm
Not if you need to give a speech and broach certain topics in order, remember a phone number, latin names for a test, etc. Memory techniques are like a technical skill rather than a way to relate concepts.
The idea there is too true. I didn't use a house but I learned to read sheet music by pretending I was at a zoo in a way. I didn't actually picture a.zoo but I used different animals for the notes and when I started sight reading I just said in my head what words I had come up with for the letter names. It was rough of course but it did the job. I tried to make them rhyme too, so it was funny thinking back on it playing classical pieces while simultaneously thinking of sharp dogs and flat frogs riding bats and cats. You get to a point where its not necessary anymore but if you want to memorize something fast, use association. But memorization is a very different process than learning, learning is almost always a slow and tedious process.
I naturally do this and I have an above average genius IQ. I don't understand why my brain naturally makes markers and I can vividly imagine anything to recall in a 3d reality. It's like having a 360 degree 3d map for memories and my brain doesn't forget what I experience because my brain stores everything in detailed images in folders in my mind that I can sift through. Reading is like watching a movie for me so my brain makes markers throughout the book so I can come back to finish the story. I don't need a book mark because I can remember years later what page I last was reading. Yet I am mentally and physically handicapped. My doctor told me I have savant syndrome and autism. I can draw anything with any tool that can make marks like a pencil pen paint charcoal exc... and I can sculpt anything from memory. I do know my memory is connected to my ability to draw and sculpt. I'm like a 3d printer because my brain measures and collects the information and my muscles are capable of recalling the data and I can use it to make it real for everyone else by drawing or sculpting it.
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Imagine you just finished storing your important memories in a high rise building and then the city just for some legit reasons decide to bulldoze the building 😂😂.
That's the kind of stuff that happens when I try these kind of techniques 😅. The door sticks so I have to remove it, plane it, rehang it. Nice door, good job! What was I trying to remember again?
I do this but I put words on my hands or with things right in front of me. It’s hard to visualize my house accurately. Instead I just visually place words or definitions on things I can see at my desk and test my self. Let me know if anyone uses this method and if it worked for you what I described.
Idk what the hell he's talking about. I always thought about my memory like a desktop computer....Someone says "banana"...my brain then goes, My computer... document "banana" -yellow -tropical fruit -taste good -does anyone have some juicy fruit?
I genuinely thought I was the only one who forgets what they read. I could read a book and remember the things I read, but ask me about it two weeks later and I would not be able to tell you a damn thing 😅
I use memory castle but instead of calling it memory castle I call it "trigger memories." It's when you place a memory in a random item and when you go by in your day you will realize you forgot what you were trying to remember but when someone says the item or you see it you can remember what you forgot.
The Memory castle is similar to what you do, but instead of people reminding you of the object. You will instead visualize your room/location and see your “Trigger object.” (I.e you remember the room where your “trigger” is. So it's more in your control)
@jordanBooh how can you possibly remember a trigger item when you dont remember it to begin with? Unless you visualize your room continuously, there isn't much need for a reminder, If you won't forget it in the first place.
@@demonloot6712 Yeah, I’ve always had that issue too. Currently, I'm reading Moon Walking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. So far, he talks about making those objects Exaggerated and symbolic. (e.g., I need to buy six red wine bottles and three pairs of socks for my grocery list.) So I'll picture walking into my home. And see 6 Talking Red Wines gambling with three pairs of socks (as chips). I see the bottles having some funny banter with each other) It's a bizarre scenario, but I won't forget what's on my list. I haven't finished the book yet, but so far, it's a good read. I'd check it out if you're interested.
The problem with this is when I think of a place it always turns into my childhood home and I don’t want to walk through it I want to walk away from it so I just use filing cabinets my memories are file room in the office building of my mind. It is all departmentalized throughout the building my brain is a business and I’m not going to run it into the ground like the sheeple.
So I thought this technique was considered "memory journey," but is the main difference that "memory castle" involves visualization instead of actually, physically placing objects/cues in the house? Like that this version requires visualizing that we placed stuff around to create mental associations but without physically doing it?
“…. lift things up, and you can find…” I’m sorry, but a memory castle where you have to lift something up in order to find the memory you seek? Why would you, after building your memory castle, HIDE those memories under other things in the castle? That’s exactly the problem we’re trying to solve via the castle: the memories you seek are buried in your mind under other things! If when you go into your memory castle to find a memory, and the location of that memory is cluttered up with other things under which the memory in question is now buried, you’ve solved nothing. All you’ve done is further obfuscate your mind. Perhaps this is why Peterson routinely takes so many words to say nothing. His memory castle is hopelessly cluttered.
Lost my memory house a few months ago to a fire. I forgot how to do everything, had to start from scratch. I’ve currently got a memory apartment, should be getting a townhouse soon if I keep up this trajectory.
This doesn't work for me at all. It doesn't improve my actual memory. I have to remember the castle. It doesnt help me with things like table of elements, fretboards (patterns only help me with patterns, not instantly knowing.)
One of the main themes of the Dune series that stuck with me is how the Benne Gesserit implanted religions in so many planets across the universe only to manipulate and enslave humanity. Makes me question if our own religions were the result of another alien civilization's plot to control and breed us through eons for a specific purpose yet unknown to us. Historically, religion and politics have only served to control and enslave us by forcing us to accept kings as emmissaries of God. This was the case for thousands of years and across different empires, such as the Egyptian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire etc.
Bro, leave this person, he has no idea of the actual capabilities of the brain. Go to specific places in india, they teach the things of the mind which is unbelievable! I am learning right now. Whatever is told related to mind will start confusing. I am learning the new technique from them, by using which you can perform 10s of mental action at a time. Which science says not possible. But here this people can perform hundreds and thousand action in a given second. It is like a magic. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But this is smartly hidden from all the people.
Without ever hearing about this I used to have my memories in a grid (think filing cabinets about 10 ft by 10 ft) and once I did a bunch of shrooms it was all gone lmao
for studying purposes or exams, it could be helpful to remember some complicated words or parts of a sentence that might help you remember the concept or the answer. But this isn't some kind of breakthrough method or magic, you will never be able to memorize the entire goddamn book or chapters using this method. For once, it's just not gonna work because, again, it's not magic and if you couldn't memorize the "standard" way this will not make you smarter all of a sudden, and second, you would need to live in the empire state building or a castle to have all these little places where to hide these words and answers.
This actually works. Been doing this for years. If you want to try it out, it’s nice when you’re playing that drinking game with naming movies, books, sports teams etc, from A to Z. I’m unbeatable and this is my secret weapon.
This won't works for most minds and don't feel bad at all if you're trying this "techniques" fyi. This is considered way beyond mediocre compares to the best memorized minds. It's beautiful and sadden at the same times, sadden because we're so different. I hope there's one methods for all humans. But that's also the beauty. Making me love all humans even more. Even one of greatest mind measured thru mere one capacity is nothing compares thru an amoebas n greatest intellectual beings regardless of creations and what've yet to comes is just mind-bogglins thoughts exercise 😮
Not good for remembering numbers.I drive a spotter truck for work and I use tv channels from my area where I grew up to remember trailers if it’s a larger number I would use multiple tv stations
This is dangerous My entire emotional body got trapped Inside the castle And once I got stuck My family and people around me all assumed me to be mentally sick I’m still there This is a trap if you can’t do it properly There is an idea of a hell.
Wasn't there a story about a banquet in the times of the great Greek philosopers, and it was hit by an earthquake, and a survivor was able to remember recall everyone's position at the table using this method?
Is this where I go to when I have the reoccuring dream where I am at a house in this dream. One room will be room in one of my childhood homes. One room will be a room in a grandparents house. One room will be a class room from grade school. The house must be gigantic but you never feel like it is in the dream. Also, I often dream I am in an old victorian house with all these staircases and balconies, but I don't think I have ever actually been in a house like this. The style of the house my change from dream to dream like sometimes the walls are white with hardwood floors and sometimes there is wood panneling on the walls and that old forrest green carpet on the floors. I dont know why I have these dreams, but have had them off and on my whole life.
I use to usually do this when I was school since 3rd grade without even knowing this is a technique well this technique helped me remember thing fir a long time
Wouldn't work on me at all. My memory and knowledge have to be embedded in a reality-based context and my own experience or in the experience of someone I can relate to.
