How To Remember Concepts And Master Abstract Thinking Fast
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In order to master abstract thinking, you need to be able to remember concepts.
This is because abstraction is a function of language.
Whether you're learning matters related to science, spirituality or any aspect of reality, the Memory Palace technique will help you, but...
Only if you have the tools needed for the job.
Today's study tips will be useful for you if you need to think conceptually and remember the abstract ideas involved.
And I give a TON of mnemonic examples that I hope will help you out.
This video updates my 2013 video:
Memorize Concepts Using A Memory Palace
• Memorize Concepts Usin...
For more help, you can also get my full podcast and article on abstract thinking:
www.magneticme...
It includes some mental exercises that will help you even further, including when it comes to the matter of symbolism.
Enjoy and thanks as always for your great comments and support of the Magnetic Memory Method initiative!
Sincerely,
Dr. Anthony Metivier
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And for more help with abstract thinking, give this a read and/or listen:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/abstract-thinking/
actually i love memory palace concept , learning is way different than learning
abstract things need memorisation but memorisation wont help you in jobs etc learning is important
understanding
active recall and spaced repitation
for list , vocabulary ,etc things need memorisation .
learning may help you enjoy process , memorisation everything make you confuse and difficult to recall or
take time to recall
I'm, a software developer. Abstract thinking is an integral part - that some sadly don't realize. In computing, we basically have data and we have instructions. Those are abstractions on top of the machine. Programming languages are abstractions of top of machine and machine instructions. And programming language themselves bring concepts and syntax for expressing event more abstract things. Like how you model your data and behavior of some real-world concept solving real-world problems. Then you can create stuff to deal with certain abstract parts of the problem.
Indeed.
I think even non-programmers or people unaware of computer science would benefit from a basic understanding of syntax and morphology.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM They sure can. Just learning a foreign human language will improve abstract thinking. It is all about expressing yourself in new ways. Some language do have ways that are peculiar to others.
Sir iam from India. I have dyslexia since childhood .I have issues with study. I'm not good at english but i learn a lot from you. Thank you so much sir for helping us to find learning technique. It will make my life way easier then ever thank you so much🌎❤
Thanks for your kind words and power to you! 🙏
I often learn about an idea or concept, and after a while I can connect it to another concept based on the similarities at an abstract level. That is how I reason. Connecting the dots.
The problem is communicating those concepts to others. That is also difficult in the software development industry - where there are a lot of abstract patterns that few really understand but as represented as code that they have seen.
Taking time to consider and connect is also a great memory strategy. Thanks for sharing! 🙏
i am poor in learning and memorising stuff . for programming syntax etc do i understand why this syntax is used or just memorise . understand is key , later try to teach to myself , active recall , spaced revision . do everyone do this like way ???
I just memorized a grammar lesson: "countable and uncountable nouns."
Here are my wild images:
count = Count of Monte Cristo
table = a huge slippery table
noun = The Nun (The demon Valak)
I also applied it in memorizing Rubik's cube algorithm. I am forever amazed. :D
The only problem I always experience is when my own mind is trying to make things complicated.
But huge thanks with these two powerful questions you had shared: "Are my thoughts useful?" "How do they behave?"
Incredible results - thanks so much for yet another incredible update!
I'm so glad you continue taking consistent action and sharing the journey with us.
And especially glad these questions have proved useful for you. Have you ever checked out the other questions Dr. Weber put together?
Hey, really interesting.
How do you exactly managed to learn rubik's cube algorithms with this method?
I am asking, because I am also interested in learning algorithms (full oll), but it can be frustrating to learn them by rote-memorization.
Thank you in advance
Huh, I wrote my undergrad thesis on the semantics of count/mass nouns. It's a fun topic
Your channel is an asset to the world
Thank you. 🙏
I like using story characters to encapsulate abstract ideas. Mythology is wonderful for that purpose!
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It really is! And perhaps we are feeling the effects of few young people encountering those old tales. Epimetheus forgot us and now we have forgotten him, a thought that would have explanatory power if the masses knew who I was talking about.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM 🤣. I had to look it up. I love that he was handing out positive traits to the animals, and ran out before coming to humans.
Oops.
Explains politics.
Not that I really needed any prep talk to motivate me, but this video made me want to create the next memory palace, just for the sake of keeping the ball rolling (or better: give it another push). The magic is in doing. Thanks for another great video, Anthony!
Thanks for taking the time to give it a view and support it with your comments.
Keep that ball rolling!
By the way, is that you playing guitar in your icon? Looks like a nice instrument!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Thanks, Anthony. Yes, it's me and my Gibson SG. Great guitar it is, very playable.
Those are indeed wonderful machines!
I actually only today realized my thinking is abstract-dominated. Well, I'm very logical. More so than any guy I've ever met (they're the logical ones remember?). It comes naturally to me but surely I have also developed my thinking three years full time. It is time to collect the results.
You raise an interesting question: Are abstract thinking and logical thinking the same?
Just loved it, keep em coming, Dr. Metivier, for the love of memory.
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I love your intelligence. I have never heard this put together like this.
Thank you for your kind words.
Are you currently using memory techniques?
I like your points about practicing the methods not just theorizing. This also applies in chess people do a lot of theorizing about how to get better at calculation instead of just practicing calculating difficult positions.
Even though I am not prepared to begin practicing my chess system because it isn’t fully developed I want to begin practicing the methods as my short term project. On the last video I watched by Ron I practiced the line memorization even though I am not particularly interested in this use case.
To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler, in the mind to suffer.
Yes, many people confuse activity with accomplishment. Since new people are coming of age every day and we are all susceptible to temporary and even longterm ignorance and arrogance, we must all remain wary of undue theorizing.
shame I just realized
The quality of your content is really improving . Keep up the great work. 👍
Thanks, will do!
Anything you'd like to see covered in future videos?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Not much, you've made a video on pretty much anything I could ask for
Here's a memory magnet that I just came up with. Anthony Metiver teaching Willam Shatner memory techniques in a spaceship.
🚀 Bang presto!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I hope you don't mind me putting you in my examples, I do it because you are one of my greatest influences.
Not at all! It's an honor!
Abstraction , Classification.Analogies.... , Logic
Basically: Representation , Applying and connection, Be it true and consistent
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Awesome content.
Glad you think so!
Anything you'd like to see covered in the future on this channel?
Anthony, maybe you can help me get past this hurdle. Is the memory palace technique only helpful for remembering the names of things/concepts? For example, if I'm understanding correctly (I feel as though I am not), your associative image of 'eudaimonia' will get you to remember the word eudaimonia because it starts with an E and so does your image. Is there more you're doing with that image, though, that allows you to remember in a deeper way what eudaimonia is and how it works? Do you imagine Einstein with a flourishing life and all that entails, or do you just imagine Einstein? I don't think you're making an *instance* of the concept into an associative image, but the alternative to me seems like knowing the thing by name only, when I believe I do instead want to deeply understand the stuff underneath the name of the concept.
To put it to example: I can go and read about hyperbolic discounting. When I say I want to remember hyperbolic discounting, though, I think what I'm getting at is that I want to have an understanding of hyperbolic discounting understood in memory so I can see it out in the wild and use it perceptually. I won't get that or be able to get that if I put an image of a hyper child bugging his mom about discount candy in the corner-store (C) memory palace somewhere. I feel like I'll just remember that it exists, *whatever it is,* and that it has something to do with cognition (C).
With the fervor you have for this technique, and the depth of understanding that you seem to have about many of the things you study, I have to assume that I'm flat out wrong somewhere, and I want to know how. Thanks for everything.
Thanks for this and interesting that you use the term “out in the wild.” Did you see this video?
ua-cam.com/video/m3CeaZtZpCM/v-deo.html
It seems to me that this is nit a question of you being wrong, but it sounds like you’re thinking about the technique instead of doing it.
What else would we memorize other than words and examples? For what other outcome than pattern recognition (or something like it)?
Start applying these techniques and the special character of their power will unfold. I’m unaware of any other way to develop deep understanding of the skills. Just make sure you’re actually using them, not some butchered and broken version, which makes the process LAME (long, annoying, meaningless, exhausting).
Study and practice it well and it will always be easy and fun. 🙏
I recently read Moonwalking With Einstein, and this reminds me of a quote from the book
"you can't have higher level learning - you can't analyse - without retrieving information, and you can't retrieve information without putting it there in the first place...you can't learn without memorising, and if done right, you can't memorise without learning"
I also remember the book talking about how you remember things: "a memory only pops directly into consciousness if it is cued by some other thought or perception - some other node in the nearly limitless interconnected web"
The memory palace provides the "cue," even if you don't directly encode the information in the image, the information is still associated with the image, and by remembering it you can more easily remember the information.
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Is there any other videos which can help me prepare for University examinations just within 1 month?
What specific topic are your exams focused on?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Human Resource Management, Corporate Communication, and Financial Markets and Services
In that case, the videos to watch next our available exclusively on my site. Head on over to register. I think you'll find them very useful!
I always have trouble "shrinking things down" to put into a memory palace. One thing I use sometimes are the Imperial Walkers from Star Wars but I have trouble trying to imagine something that is supposed to be 100 feet walking across my desk at work, etc. Any suggestions?
If you learn to use all of the Magnetic Modes, they won't have to be 100 feet. It sounds like you're using only the visual mode, but if you add in at least a healthy percentage of the other 27, you'll probably find that you can forgo the sizes of things quite easily.
ty i have adhd and autism language delay so its rlly hard
There's an amazing memory athlete who has A.D.D.
Here's a conversation we recorded with some of his best tips for dealing with it:
ua-cam.com/video/psP4Bq_aFQ0/v-deo.html
Hope it helps you out.
Anthony, a question please. i am lawyer. wish i had the skills of memory when i was a student quite some time ago. but i would like to take up developing memory skills now and also share with my students. how do i start this? where do i begin? what program would be best for me? how long does the program work...mygreathanks and blessings
Thanks so much for asking about this, Paul.
I would suggest starting with the free course on my site. If you like it, proceed with the full program or one of my books, such as The Victorious Mind.
In terms of the time question, tere is no cookie-cutter answer here, but these are the basic expectations for success:
Most people can complete the core training in 2-5 hours. This is not my opinion, but the data that I’ve received over the years from our most successful course participants.
The core training involves:
1. The Start Here page (video 2 is especially important)
2. The Masterplan - including the MP3s at the end for the time recommended
3. The Exercises page
4. The Study guide for what to complete next based on your goals
5. The FAQ page
There are other courses to complete, and each one requires about 2 hours or so.
In terms of daily practice, you really don’t need more than 15 minutes, but everything depends on how fast you want to progress. I passed level III in Mandarin (without completing levels I and II) in just 15 minutes a day of acquiring vocab and phrases, for example, and other examples are available on our testimonials page to give you a wider sense of range:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/testimonials/
After that, people interested in life long brain benefits should expect to practice for life, at least 4x a week. If practice disappears, there will still be some benefit and you’ll do well. But it won’t be as fast and sharp as it could be with regular practice in place.
Does this response help you out?
why is the K equal a 7? what is the major system?
The Major:
ua-cam.com/users/liveuhUhIzLISRI?feature=share
No one knows why it’s 7. But it’s a great choice for a few reasons, one of which is that it looks like part of K.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thanks!!
for the algorithm
Thanks, though I'm pretty sure it's smart enough to understand that and not give it credit. Even a simple "thanks" would be better. Fewer letters too.
How have you been lately? Long time no see! :-)
Does memory palace really work?
We have more science and memory competition statistics than anyone has time to read. It’s like asking whether or not airplane can fly. Answer:
Only when pilots know how to make metal collaborate with the sky.
Any other questions on your mind?
@Anthony Metivier ok got it I'm gonna try this from today
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Anthony, me pasa que yo tengo esa voz interior, ese monólogo interno y es muy importante para mí pensar con el, como hacer para lo que pensamos con este monólogo no se nos olvide ?
This is how I've been working with my inner voice:
ua-cam.com/video/kvtYjdriSpM/v-deo.html
Does that sound like something you might like to practice?
Wow. Sos el primer hispano que me encuentro en este canal.
Hello Mr. Metivier,
I have a question but I am not sure it's absurd or not but I am curious since I started to this journey. When we are memorizing new things by using memory palace (for instance vocabs) and then we thoroughly learned them and start to memorize new vocabs. Should I replace new vocabs with the old ones or should I create a new palace for each new info?
Thanks in advance
Sincerely
TheHapki
Thanks for your question.
Before I answer in a generic way, what is your specific goal with memorizing vocabulary? What’s the larger learning project?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I am planning to memorise advanced English vocabs and intermediate Japanese vocab. Also I am planning to memorise grammar points by using this technique.
In this case, I would not work on reusing Memory Palaces until you've successfully filled at least one Memory Palace Network with 10 words in each across the entire alphabet.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I tottaly undestand your point. Thank you so much for your answer. I am gonna work on it. Have a nice day and week Mr. Metivier.
You too!