Hello, thank you for making this video! I have questions: Do you make memory palaces on the fly, do you reuse old memory palaces, or do you make new memory palaces every day and attribute them according to your needs? Do short-term memory palace skills transfer to long-term skills? For example, if I become proficient with numbers, names and faces, images, cards, international names and faces, and words, will I have an easier time memorizing books or someone's attire on a particular date? Is it feasible to permanently memorize the clothing of everyone I talk to in a day?
Thank you for your message. Sometimes I make memory palaces on the fly, lets say if I am in a new building for a meeting and I decide to memorise the key points from the meeting I am in. Often though I use pre used memory palaces, especially in stressful situations - like for exam study or a public speaking opportunity. When I am memory training I mostly re use palaces, but occasionally will make a new one and use the training to "break in" the palace (as the more you use a palace the better it tends to be). The short term skills can be transferred to long term learning - it is about using spaced repetition well. For example, any long term learning needs some repetition to move information from short to long term. The difference in using memory techniques is that it is much faster to do that initial first learning. This next question about clothing I love 😂 Yes, you could adapt traditional mnemonic techniques to remember the clothing of everyone you talk to in a day. That is the short term sorted - then, you would need some spaced repetition to move that information from your short term memory to your long term. I find Anki is a great tool for this sort of revision. I hope that helps! Keep training 💪
Thank you, it does help to know when the videos are useful. I'd be happy to share what goes on in my head for words sessions. I'll be sure to make that one soon 😊
Hey, this is Sibusiso from South Africa, I love you so much, i recently started following you and you make so much sense to me than other memory champions I've seen, can you please share on some of the challenges you experienced when you where starting, i feel it help beginners like me to stay the course till we see results.
Thank you very much. I hope you continue to publish more videos. I have a question. I am a high school student and I want to use memory techniques for academic subjects and not for memorizing a shopping list, etc.
Thank you for your comment. I will try to do some more videos on memorizing for more academic subjects soon as the techniques are really useful for this too.
Thanks! glad you liked it. For speed I often work in a different way...Go to start a training session in Memory League but rather than clicking start under 'standard' choose the 'custom' function. It is a great way to force yourself to go faster. If you are not sure what I mean feel free to email me from my website and I'll show you how on a quick zoom call.
Hi, I need to pass an IRS tax exam beginners level. Would it be easier to learn this material using 100s of Anki flash cards or maybe lots of Memory palaces? Also would you be able using Memory Palaces to learn concept maps and then be able to explain the relationships between the concepts?
Hi, if I were doing this exam I would put it in a memory palace and Anki. Anki is good when you just have a minute or two or to test yourself out of order. But a memory palace is good so you both hold 'complete information' in one place, can review it all whenever you like (ie: sitting in the dentists chair or stuck somewhere boring). Memory Palaces also give you an 'extra' association which helps that initial learning be faster. For the Q about explaining relationships between concepts memory palaces can be useful here too though I think it is a bit outside of you tube to answer here. Please feel free to email me (my email is on my website) and Im happy to explain to you.
Still, 40 seconds is nothing to sneeze at! Amazing! Do you train using the 'custom' metronome function? For me this is the best way to over time force myself to go faster. Make it just a bit faster than currently comfortable for you - like set it at 35 seconds, once you are getting it mostly right at that speed push it down a second or two.
@@GrantNolan. I find if I do a few 20min sessions just on metronome and then just do a 'standard' session and try hard to keep up the pace my speed has improved. Not always to the same speed as the metronome, but faster. Over time this can make a real difference.
Could you testify whether practicing remembering images has actually made your memory more photographic? If you can't answer that with a yes directly, then I would ask whether you noticed your subconscious ability to remember images to improve? In the training you have conscious effort, but the real value of practice would happen when your visual memory becomes better in a "passive" way, because that's when we know it doesn't take us a lot of energy to memorize things. I've heard a memory athlete claim their day to day memory was not good at all. This seems discouraging to pursue training. Perhaps you have a different experience. Thanks
Hello, thank you for making this video! I have questions:
Do you make memory palaces on the fly, do you reuse old memory palaces, or do you make new memory palaces every day and attribute them according to your needs?
Do short-term memory palace skills transfer to long-term skills? For example, if I become proficient with numbers, names and faces, images, cards, international names and faces, and words, will I have an easier time memorizing books or someone's attire on a particular date?
Is it feasible to permanently memorize the clothing of everyone I talk to in a day?
Thank you for your message.
Sometimes I make memory palaces on the fly, lets say if I am in a new building for a meeting and I decide to memorise the key points from the meeting I am in. Often though I use pre used memory palaces, especially in stressful situations - like for exam study or a public speaking opportunity. When I am memory training I mostly re use palaces, but occasionally will make a new one and use the training to "break in" the palace (as the more you use a palace the better it tends to be).
The short term skills can be transferred to long term learning - it is about using spaced repetition well. For example, any long term learning needs some repetition to move information from short to long term. The difference in using memory techniques is that it is much faster to do that initial first learning.
This next question about clothing I love 😂
Yes, you could adapt traditional mnemonic techniques to remember the clothing of everyone you talk to in a day. That is the short term sorted - then, you would need some spaced repetition to move that information from your short term memory to your long term. I find Anki is a great tool for this sort of revision.
I hope that helps! Keep training 💪
Would you do a walk through like this, but on words. I would like to know what goes on in your head as you memorize words. This was a great video. 😊
Thank you, it does help to know when the videos are useful. I'd be happy to share what goes on in my head for words sessions. I'll be sure to make that one soon 😊
@@Anastasia_Woolmer Thank you!
Hey, this is Sibusiso from South Africa, I love you so much, i recently started following you and you make so much sense to me than other memory champions I've seen, can you please share on some of the challenges you experienced when you where starting, i feel it help beginners like me to stay the course till we see results.
Thank you, very glad to be of help. I will try to make some more training videos soon and include some starting challenges too.
Thank you very much. I hope you continue to publish more videos. I have a question. I am a high school student and I want to use memory techniques for academic subjects and not for memorizing a shopping list, etc.
Thank you for your comment. I will try to do some more videos on memorizing for more academic subjects soon as the techniques are really useful for this too.
She has such a awesome face! Añdshe is highly intelligent and knows her stuff. But most importantly she gets right too the point!!!!!
awww, thank you!
Thank you, that was useful.
I have reached level 8, but was struggling with the speed.
May try your way and approach, hope it will help
Thanks! glad you liked it. For speed I often work in a different way...Go to start a training session in Memory League but rather than clicking start under 'standard' choose the 'custom' function. It is a great way to force yourself to go faster. If you are not sure what I mean feel free to email me from my website and I'll show you how on a quick zoom call.
Hi, I need to pass an IRS tax exam beginners level. Would it be easier to learn this material using 100s of Anki flash cards or maybe lots of Memory palaces? Also would you be able using Memory Palaces to learn concept maps and then be able to explain the relationships between the concepts?
Hi, if I were doing this exam I would put it in a memory palace and Anki. Anki is good when you just have a minute or two or to test yourself out of order. But a memory palace is good so you both hold 'complete information' in one place, can review it all whenever you like (ie: sitting in the dentists chair or stuck somewhere boring).
Memory Palaces also give you an 'extra' association which helps that initial learning be faster. For the Q about explaining relationships between concepts memory palaces can be useful here too though I think it is a bit outside of you tube to answer here. Please feel free to email me (my email is on my website) and Im happy to explain to you.
I can't seem to get under 40s. 29s is fast!
Still, 40 seconds is nothing to sneeze at! Amazing! Do you train using the 'custom' metronome function? For me this is the best way to over time force myself to go faster. Make it just a bit faster than currently comfortable for you - like set it at 35 seconds, once you are getting it mostly right at that speed push it down a second or two.
@@Anastasia_Woolmer No, I haven't used it. Thank you for the suggestion
@@Anastasia_Woolmer When you memorize with the metronome, does the rhythm carry over into skill without a dependency?
@@GrantNolan. I find if I do a few 20min sessions just on metronome and then just do a 'standard' session and try hard to keep up the pace my speed has improved. Not always to the same speed as the metronome, but faster. Over time this can make a real difference.
@@Anastasia_Woolmer Thanks, good to know 👍
Could you testify whether practicing remembering images has actually made your memory more photographic?
If you can't answer that with a yes directly, then I would ask whether you noticed your subconscious ability to remember images to improve? In the training you have conscious effort, but the real value of practice would happen when your visual memory becomes better in a "passive" way, because that's when we know it doesn't take us a lot of energy to memorize things.
I've heard a memory athlete claim their day to day memory was not good at all. This seems discouraging to pursue training. Perhaps you have a different experience.
Thanks