Here's one for you Anthony. Im a bus driver and have a memory palace idea of making my bus route into a memory palace. Shops, road signs, street furniture, bus stops...
Yes, back when I lived in Berlin I used the routes often after a train operator told me he was using the U3 stations as a Memory Palace. It works great.
I have a huge palaces of memory, coz i always played battleground games with huge maps and i remeber even the tiniest object and ehat colour r they, i can use ,em , and after understanding the way to use mnemonic from u sir , i dont ecen forget the details of mah lecture, i turn them into images at an instant, connecting them with characters and stories. And whenever try to recall, the images come to my mind and everything connects again ✨. I am glad i found ur channel sir. Thank u very much , and i am experimenting with many more techniques
Robert Fludd is one of the characters homaged in Paul Laffoley's masterpiece, the Thanaton III. As hard as it is to figure out his contribution to that artwork I think it has more to do with Fludd's hermetic worldview and the fact of him being a polymath (a bit like the artist himself). I haven't checked his influence on that particular painting from the perspective of mnemonics, thank you. Now I have to hunt for that book.
Thanaton III is a very cool image! I'll think about what mnemonic implications it might have and thanks for reminding me of it. It possibly relates to something I'm working on at the moment.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I think the "Celestial Monochord" has something to do with it, since it relates to the great chain of being, neoplatonism and so forth. Just like mnemonics the painting is actually a device that can be used for practical purposes, i. e. communication with "other" kinds of intelligence, among other things. This is not evident unless approached properly: using meditation of a particular kind, "zhiné" in the Tibetan tradition (to look, contemplate) or Trāṭaka (त्राटक) in the Hindu tradition. Or well, using psychedelics works too (I did that when I was in college as a young fella and it led me to a lifelong inquiry about this subjects). I bet you're familiar with the "Lux of the mind" which maybe can be related to the "chimeric colors", I said that because it was a phenomenon well known by the likes of Bruno or Athanasius Kircher. Duchamp claims, in several notes of the White Box that 'there are colors that are luminous foci, source colors not subjected to an external light source'. Bruno had said the same thing although, less categorical, he attributed this property to the colors and metals that in the sublunar world are opaque but that in the stars shine with their own light. Another painting, "Color Breathing" by Laffoley goes deeper into this. I think, if approached and studied properly, that it can be (The Thanaton III) the link of a common and accessible experience towards panpsychism which is a hot topic in science right now. The translation I made about Leonard Troland's book "The Mystery of the Mind" made me realize that it is one of the purposes of the painting. By the way Troland is another of the 43 characters mentioned in the homage section of the painting. Sorry if this got too long, I actually made my master degree thesis on art history about that painting so I get passionate about it sometimes.
I am familiar with some of these matters. If you read the end of The Victorious Mind, you'll see that I pose a question to such ideas, however. I remain in search of an answer, but I do not apply my criteria for what counts as a sensible one on anyone else. Life's too short for that, so beyond that question in that book, I mostly say in response to my own thoughts and theorizing, "Selah!" What a chord that strikes, indeed!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Interesting, I remain open but I think I already found some of the answers I've been looking for. I guess I'll have to read your book then since you made me curious enough about it. That will do until you write another one where you can elaborate on those questions more deeply. By the way how far does mnemonic techniques can go? I mean, do they work retroactively? Can you apply them to recall your childhood or even "lost memories"? Best regards Anthony.
A short version of The Victorious Mind is in my TEDx Talk if you like: ua-cam.com/video/kvtYjdriSpM/v-deo.html To answer your question, this is a bit of a yes/no/maybe so area. If we take into account the Loftus research and related findings, we can certainly expect that memory work will bring up older memories. But will the be accurate and unchanged? That does not seem to be the case, nor does there seem to be a metric for testing accuracy. The other problem is that there are too many kinds of memory that we're talking about going back to effect. And it's not entirely clear how all of those different types of memory interact. These matters are also touched upon to a certain extent in The Victorious Mind. But the follow up to TVM does go deeper into these matters. I'm not sure if I'll get it released within 2024, however. It's mostly done, but the developmental editor made some suggestions that make me want to expand it by about four chapters. Thanks so much for your interest and talk soon!
Anthony- I'm not sure why the UA-cam algorithm led me to you, but I am very grateful. I have had ADHD my entire life and have difficulty with short term memory recall. I'm also getting up there in age. My question is this: while I am gleaning some understanding of what a memory palace is, you make reference to many things I have had no introduction to many terms you reference. Can you tell me which video I should watch that begins from, well, the beginning? I cannot afford your memory mastery class as I am currently unemployed and having financial problems (this is the gentlest way I can put it). I appreciate any guidance you can offer.
Thanks for checking this one out. Yes, I drop a lot of terms, usually because I make videos for people who have already read one of my books or gone through a course. So the beginning point is hard to suggest without knowing what you want to remember better. If you can let me know, I can suggest a video or write a suggestion that might help.
Great Video! I am glad you brought up your take on the theatre. That never seemed as practical as it does now. Your take is essentially what I do, with all locations, which is why I never found it particularly as useful as my own self-experienced palaces. Thanks!
Glad this point relates to your practice. There's certainly more to the theatre technique in the book, but this is the most important point from what I can tell.
I love your transparency, because the first thing I thought when you mentioned catastrophically wrong thinking about science and medicine is, "He might be wrong, himself," or, some variation of that, and I think you might be the first person I've ever seen who seems to take a certain view of it, probably, that actually said there's a possibility that looking back to what he thought might essentially be the same with your thoughts. Really good, stuff. It sounds potentially strange, for me to say it, but you showed real uncommon sincerity, there.
I try to adhere to true falsifiability in the sense that Popper mentioned it, which requires including the possibility that falsifiability itself needs to be falsifiable.
I like that, and in instances of it, as well. Although I wonder if breaking down your very standards would be the ultimate "shot in the foot" falsifiability doctrine, lol. Not to say that's happening anywhere specific, but just thinking that would be funny. In any case, thank you for the thoughtful answer.@@AnthonyMetivierMMM
Fludd and Bruno and even Aristotle have wrestled with this problem to a certain extent. In fact, Bruno apparently was chased out of a lecture hall for pointing out that Aristotle was indeed aware of logical problems with his own logic but preferred to sweep them under the rug (readable by one and all in Metaphysics). One issue that we face is how the mind gets tied up in the words and the data being "real" when it's much more likely that they are coming into being at the same time we are - or if not at the same time, beingness coming into being in a way that relates to all other aspects of being. I believe this is the point that Spinoza was yammering on about, and Nietzsche ties Bruno and Spinoza together at one point in Beyond Good and Evil, which is itself a meditation on words not being sufficient to the cause of arriving at truths. I'll have to re-read Popper, but I believe it is a kind of non-Aristotelian, but also non-Platonic modesty that lies at the core of falsifiability needing to itself surrender to its own principle. It's a nice checkmate move because it doesn't force you to play by the rules of the game: it exposes that as long as we're in the prison house of language, it is very much like a game. So much so, it's irrelevant to insist that it isn't. On the surface, this framing that points to framing can sound to some like "doctrine." I'd say it's more like Zen, the teaching that shows to be free involves little more than realizing how you're unfree. Always were, always will be. And good riddance to all notions that arise from the moment of awakening on because if it's a game, it's a zero sum game. Enjoy the ride! ;-)
Yeah, it's always, ultimately, just words as descriptors of what's there. What's there may, I would say, possibly be organized in as unmoving a way as the words suggest, which is what I like about Looking into things over time, because you can gather principles that wouldn't seem to be possible to gather just based on how things always keep seeming to work, but then again, the principles still are what they are, and the words are still a second.@@AnthonyMetivierMMM
I use patterns to memorize things. And categories. When things fit into categories they are easier to fit into the memory filing cabinet for fast retrieval. However when information is all random bits and pieces without structure it is so much harder to imprint on the memory.
I didn't premiere this one. I think I'll probably spend some time just releasing them as soon as I get them done instead of waiting for days. That should give me more time for other projects and ultimately more videos on the channel. Thanks as ever for your interest and support!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I see Well, whatever it takes to keep Ars Memoriae alive 🔥 Looking forward to reading your upcoming books. I got dibs on Bruno's Infinite Memory Palace, Vitamin X, Victorious Mind Part Deux and the Memory Detective Jr Series Also, can't wait for the critical thinking cohort. And maybe a course on Bruno to complement the book 👀🙂
I'm enthused by your interest in all of these things. There's yet another draft I just finished too. The delays on the Bruno book will be worth it. I think I might make that book available only with a course, but time will tell. In many ways, it's good that the new translation will take a while to reach me because it helps me rethink many things as I continue developing my Latin. Hopefully the artists will be done the third Memory Detective Jr. book soon two. Then there will only be two more to go. Such a lot of effort for just a few tiny books... but it will also be worth it. Thanks again and talk soon!
Got you covered right here: ua-cam.com/video/5-S8e6uC_oE/v-deo.html Remember: put the techniques into action. Watching videos is only part of what it takes.
Your work is very good sir I have been helped due to this many time. But length of the videos is too much, may be if you shorten the time and get to the point quickly it will attract more views.
Hi Anthony. I am a big fan of you. I have some questions for you: 1. How many words in a foreign language can someone memorise per day? (I have read that there was a guy who memorised 1000 words in 5 hours) Which Iq score do I need in order to learn 1000 words in 5 hours (if possible) Greetings and have a nice day Anthony!
Thank you for this question. The exact amount will depend on your level of skill. I would suggest setting some milestones and benchmark against yourself, not others.
I actually had a pastor with the last name Frudd when I was a kid. I wonder if there was any relation or if the name has a history that would have morphed the sounding/spelling of the name.
The More you read, the better you Read. Hmmmm. Of all things? Can that be said as well? Dancing? Writing? Vaulting? Horse back riding? Sports. I csn only bolt at one instance --- singing. Bless those Who are tone deaf! Thank you For a wonderful Video!! Respectfully Yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
More is not necessarily more. Greater attention to granular aspects are needed in deliberate practice to strengthen weaknesses and avoid creating new ones. 🙏
Is it possible to use one route/palace, but change the subject experiencing it to make it different? I'm in med school and have to memorize pathology, its diseases for each organ. Could I use the same commute I take to school for each organ, but drive a different "car" to "separate" the palaces or would that be ineffective? Maybe pretend Im driving in a giant kidney one day LOL. Or would it be a better idea to designate a specific area of my city for each organ system? I just found your channel today and this looks super fun. I also had an idea of taking my notes and creating a palace on the spot in different places in the city, and then do the mental retrieval part at home + actually walk there (without the notes) and practice retrieval. Thanks for all the information :)
Thanks for your post. Please see my definitive guide to re-using Memory Palaces here: ua-cam.com/video/Umt-innA-u8/v-deo.htmlsi=_YhWSIDv-OE6XHjt Does it make sense and help you out?
Thanks for this. I look forward to trying my own adjusted version, because visual associations wouldn't work for a person like me. There is a small minority of people like myself who have low or zero ability visualize mentally. Human ability to visualize mentally is a continuum from phenomenal ability to with vivid, complex, memorable, recall-able, sustained, often animated images -to- zero ability at all to visualize images in one's mind. Zero ability is called aphantasia. Yes, aphantasia definitely a real thing. When I explain it to people with good visual ability, I have at times been met with disbelief. That's unfortunate. Rogue UA-cam self-help guru, David Snyder, denies the reality of aphantasia. That's terribly unfortunate. An aphantasiac would put it to you this way: "I was not shocked to learn that I could not see images in my mind; I was shocked to learn that other people could. How is that possible?" Upon learning about aphantasia, a common response is, "Just do visualization exercises and you'll get better. The brain is a muscle and the more you work it, the stronger it gets." I saw this retort to that common response in an aphantasia forum: "Would you tell a blind person to just do eye exercises and they will be all better?" That is to say, aphantasia is not about the lack of a good work ethic or self-discipline. I would assess myself at 1-2% ability to visualize. I'm guessing I could use sound or musical associations. That's what I'm going to try. Thanks again.
As discussed in this video, most mnemonics are based on logic, not visualization. As some of my hugely successful memory competition friends often say, there is simply no time for visualization, even if you can do it.
Sir I really like your videos. And I want to use memory techniques for remembering important things. When I study for exam I do remember the things I needed to pass the exam but after that a month passed by and I forgot everything I learned during the exam. It's like studying to pass the exam then forget everything I've learned. And I know that it's a part of being human but I still want to remember the important things that will help me reach my goals. Some peoples says that Mnemonics doesn't work they recommend techniques like space repetition. While the space repetition work really great but It kind of waste lots of time when I could be learning a different things. Even after using space repetition we forget what we learned 5 years ago. Does memory palace need space repetition too To me having good memory is like money but not the kind of money that you use to buy suff. You can use money to buy other peoples time and have them do your work And memory is kind of like that to me. It's like having good memory is a way to buy your own time. I use memory techniques to learn language. When I was learning the word " Stink ". I imagine a bottle of ST companys ink is eating garbage near my house. So because it is eating garbage so It's mouth will smell very unpleasent which is the meaning of the word and " St + ink " makes the spelling of the word. Recently I watch an anime called Bluelock when they show the importance of have a mindset. Would you kind enough to watch that anime and make a video on it. Here's a question for you do you think a particular mindset can help us master memory techniques fast? Sir, Anthony thanks for reading my comment
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I am starting to use them. But I also follow your channel because it's intellectually stimulating and your delivery of the information is superb!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I'm not sure if this is something that would call for a separate technique, but it would be great to learn tips for memorizing lines, scripts, song lyrics, monologues, etc.
Can this be applied for accounting students? I'm so confused on how this could be used for accounting students. There r both concepts, critical thinking and perfect understanding of the concepts involved not just words like in biology or chemical reactions chemisty(chemistry is hard too I know that).
Yes, but I’d suggest getting into the modern version in my full training for accounting and chemistry. Fludd has no examples for what we deal with today.
ANTHONY its odd to me- (I'm coming from this as podcast) that "Robert Flood" didn't make the obvious example of a robber getting caught in a flood while doing something...related to Flood theories. I now have the name in my head and I don't even care about him! Just by taking a minute and seeing a robber get thrown over and bobbing along on a flood of water...Which proves these methods work. I'm still and I've watched videos of yours- unsure of how to use this for LANGUAGE LEARNING....should I just memorize lists of common verbs using mnemonics? Or Memory Palace for verbs/nouns? I just conceptually get confused BEFORE I start.
I gave the example based on Fludd’s ideas and his teaching clearly states that a robber would be too vague in many minds - if it works in yours for one name, that is great. But I would suggest testing generic associations with dozens of names rather than deciding the generic approach works based on one name. It needs to work at scale, which is why specificity is key. Regarding language learning, I have addressed this many times and urge people to contextualize the memory techniques within the Big Five of Language Learning. You can search that term on my channel for more info and I strongly encourage this holistic approach along with Fludd’s important recommendations for the mnemonic aspect. 🙏
How would one memorise an unusual name? Some time ago I read about The Royal Society. Characters such as Joesoph Banks, and William Herchell, all very interesting but as I have a bad memory I used some memory tricks to help remember The names. Such as Hershell was a big arrow flashing and pointing to a females turtles shell for Her shell! But the Unusal name that keeps slipping my mind is from a movie/cartoon. The name is Nausicaa. Pronounced Nah si caa. For some reason I cant recall that name when I need to. What Im thinking is three a syllables chant but I have no image to pin to each sylable help me burn it into my brain., any suggestions for remembering an odd word or name? thanks for the info you upload.
Yes, the process I suggest starts with developing what you are calling an "image to pin" for each and every letter of the alphabet. When you pre-develop these images, ideally using the Magnetic Modes, you'll be able to break down any number of syllables and always have images for each.
The Hermetic Art of Memory almost sounds like the Kemetic Art of Memory. All early Greek and some Roman scholars were taught by Africans in North Africa called Kemet which the Romans changed to Egypt after the invasion because of jealousy and an attempt to erase African history etc. During the invasion Aristotle took the opportunity thief God knows how many books from it's great library.
It’s even older and more culturally universal than that. For more see the works of Tyson Yunkaporta and Lynne Kelly, both guests on my podcast for further investigation into the historical depths.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM For even more deeper depth of knowledge, you can check the works of the likes of Cheikh Anta Diop (General History of Africa 1~8 volume series) amongst other well written book authored by him. Also Chancellor Williams, W.E.B Du Bois just to name a few. Then you'll realize it wasn't culturally universal but universally appropriated.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM It is required if they wanne "rise", another occult teaching is... M = Mindcontrol One guy tried that on me... didnt go well for him, didnt help him at all.
As always a great video, Anthony, that instantly made me want to read this book. Interesting that the author decided to keep the latin original next to the english translation (if I understood correctly). My latin has gotten very rusty, but while reading Rhetorica ad Herenium I took a peek at the latin part every once in a while and I was suprised how much I still remembered, even after decades out of school. On another note: Is there a reason why you don't provide shopping links to the books you introduce?
Thanks so much for checking this one out and commenting. In this book, the English translation follows the introduction, then the Latin. Although there are benefits to having the bilingual text on facing pages, I actually prefer it this way. It encourages anticipatory reading, which strengthens Latin laerning. There is a reason for linking tactics, something best discussed elsewhere. But rest assured, there is almost always a reason behind just about everything online. And the best way to help independents out is to train the robots that humans care for them by searching manually and interacting meaningfully. I think you're going to love this one and I know Lewis Masonic will appreciate any and all reviews people leave for the book.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thank you for your quick reply, Anthony. Your answer on the links suffices, thanks 🙂I will leave a comment after reading the book (probably where I purchased it)
Ready for more? Check out the "Chaos Memory Palace" of Giordano Bruno next: ua-cam.com/video/NcM3VBdlIvc/v-deo.html
obrigado pelas legendas em português. Sou do Brasil.
Here's one for you Anthony. Im a bus driver and have a memory palace idea of making my bus route into a memory palace. Shops, road signs, street furniture, bus stops...
Yes, back when I lived in Berlin I used the routes often after a train operator told me he was using the U3 stations as a Memory Palace. It works great.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Great. I'm a London UK red bus double decker driver.
I have fond memories of riding those buses when I was visiting London. Great city too!
I hope I remember to read this book.
I love this comment, just wish l could remember what it said 😂
Lol 😂
I have a huge palaces of memory, coz i always played battleground games with huge maps and i remeber even the tiniest object and ehat colour r they, i can use ,em , and after understanding the way to use mnemonic from u sir , i dont ecen forget the details of mah lecture, i turn them into images at an instant, connecting them with characters and stories. And whenever try to recall, the images come to my mind and everything connects again ✨. I am glad i found ur channel sir. Thank u very much , and i am experimenting with many more techniques
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Robert Fludd was a Rosicrucian and great philosopher.
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Wasn't he also an apprentice of John Dee's ? I thought I read that somewhere ?
I haven't read that myself so can't say.
I ordered this. I'm waiting for it to come. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Enjoy!
Robert Fludd is one of the characters homaged in Paul Laffoley's masterpiece, the Thanaton III. As hard as it is to figure out his contribution to that artwork I think it has more to do with Fludd's hermetic worldview and the fact of him being a polymath (a bit like the artist himself). I haven't checked his influence on that particular painting from the perspective of mnemonics, thank you. Now I have to hunt for that book.
Thanaton III is a very cool image! I'll think about what mnemonic implications it might have and thanks for reminding me of it. It possibly relates to something I'm working on at the moment.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I think the "Celestial Monochord" has something to do with it, since it relates to the great chain of being, neoplatonism and so forth. Just like mnemonics the painting is actually a device that can be used for practical purposes, i. e. communication with "other" kinds of intelligence, among other things. This is not evident unless approached properly: using meditation of a particular kind, "zhiné" in the Tibetan tradition (to look, contemplate) or Trāṭaka (त्राटक) in the Hindu tradition. Or well, using psychedelics works too (I did that when I was in college as a young fella and it led me to a lifelong inquiry about this subjects). I bet you're familiar with the "Lux of the mind" which maybe can be related to the "chimeric colors", I said that because it was a phenomenon well known by the likes of Bruno or Athanasius Kircher. Duchamp claims, in several notes of the White Box that 'there are colors that are luminous foci, source colors not subjected to an external light source'. Bruno had said the same thing although, less categorical, he attributed this property to the colors and metals that in the sublunar world are opaque but that in the stars shine with their own light. Another painting, "Color Breathing" by Laffoley goes deeper into this. I think, if approached and studied properly, that it can be (The Thanaton III) the link of a common and accessible experience towards panpsychism which is a hot topic in science right now. The translation I made about Leonard Troland's book "The Mystery of the Mind" made me realize that it is one of the purposes of the painting. By the way Troland is another of the 43 characters mentioned in the homage section of the painting. Sorry if this got too long, I actually made my master degree thesis on art history about that painting so I get passionate about it sometimes.
I am familiar with some of these matters. If you read the end of The Victorious Mind, you'll see that I pose a question to such ideas, however.
I remain in search of an answer, but I do not apply my criteria for what counts as a sensible one on anyone else. Life's too short for that, so beyond that question in that book, I mostly say in response to my own thoughts and theorizing, "Selah!"
What a chord that strikes, indeed!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Interesting, I remain open but I think I already found some of the answers I've been looking for. I guess I'll have to read your book then since you made me curious enough about it. That will do until you write another one where you can elaborate on those questions more deeply. By the way how far does mnemonic techniques can go? I mean, do they work retroactively? Can you apply them to recall your childhood or even "lost memories"? Best regards Anthony.
A short version of The Victorious Mind is in my TEDx Talk if you like:
ua-cam.com/video/kvtYjdriSpM/v-deo.html
To answer your question, this is a bit of a yes/no/maybe so area. If we take into account the Loftus research and related findings, we can certainly expect that memory work will bring up older memories.
But will the be accurate and unchanged? That does not seem to be the case, nor does there seem to be a metric for testing accuracy.
The other problem is that there are too many kinds of memory that we're talking about going back to effect. And it's not entirely clear how all of those different types of memory interact.
These matters are also touched upon to a certain extent in The Victorious Mind. But the follow up to TVM does go deeper into these matters. I'm not sure if I'll get it released within 2024, however. It's mostly done, but the developmental editor made some suggestions that make me want to expand it by about four chapters.
Thanks so much for your interest and talk soon!
I just bought your audio book The Victorious Mind. Your You tube channel is a great service for human kind. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for your interest and support!
Anything you’d like to see covered going forward?
I am mostly interested in the practical applications but Fludd is really got my attention. Thank you for the video, Anthony.
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Anthony- I'm not sure why the UA-cam algorithm led me to you, but I am very grateful. I have had ADHD my entire life and have difficulty with short term memory recall. I'm also getting up there in age. My question is this: while I am gleaning some understanding of what a memory palace is, you make reference to many things I have had no introduction to many terms you reference. Can you tell me which video I should watch that begins from, well, the beginning? I cannot afford your memory mastery class as I am currently unemployed and having financial problems (this is the gentlest way I can put it). I appreciate any guidance you can offer.
Thanks for checking this one out.
Yes, I drop a lot of terms, usually because I make videos for people who have already read one of my books or gone through a course.
So the beginning point is hard to suggest without knowing what you want to remember better.
If you can let me know, I can suggest a video or write a suggestion that might help.
Great Video! I am glad you brought up your take on the theatre. That never seemed as practical as it does now. Your take is essentially what I do, with all locations, which is why I never found it particularly as useful as my own self-experienced palaces. Thanks!
Glad this point relates to your practice.
There's certainly more to the theatre technique in the book, but this is the most important point from what I can tell.
I love your transparency, because the first thing I thought when you mentioned catastrophically wrong thinking about science and medicine is, "He might be wrong, himself," or, some variation of that, and I think you might be the first person I've ever seen who seems to take a certain view of it, probably, that actually said there's a possibility that looking back to what he thought might essentially be the same with your thoughts. Really good, stuff. It sounds potentially strange, for me to say it, but you showed real uncommon sincerity, there.
I try to adhere to true falsifiability in the sense that Popper mentioned it, which requires including the possibility that falsifiability itself needs to be falsifiable.
I like that, and in instances of it, as well. Although I wonder if breaking down your very standards would be the ultimate "shot in the foot" falsifiability doctrine, lol. Not to say that's happening anywhere specific, but just thinking that would be funny. In any case, thank you for the thoughtful answer.@@AnthonyMetivierMMM
Fludd and Bruno and even Aristotle have wrestled with this problem to a certain extent. In fact, Bruno apparently was chased out of a lecture hall for pointing out that Aristotle was indeed aware of logical problems with his own logic but preferred to sweep them under the rug (readable by one and all in Metaphysics).
One issue that we face is how the mind gets tied up in the words and the data being "real" when it's much more likely that they are coming into being at the same time we are - or if not at the same time, beingness coming into being in a way that relates to all other aspects of being.
I believe this is the point that Spinoza was yammering on about, and Nietzsche ties Bruno and Spinoza together at one point in Beyond Good and Evil, which is itself a meditation on words not being sufficient to the cause of arriving at truths. I'll have to re-read Popper, but I believe it is a kind of non-Aristotelian, but also non-Platonic modesty that lies at the core of falsifiability needing to itself surrender to its own principle.
It's a nice checkmate move because it doesn't force you to play by the rules of the game: it exposes that as long as we're in the prison house of language, it is very much like a game. So much so, it's irrelevant to insist that it isn't. On the surface, this framing that points to framing can sound to some like "doctrine."
I'd say it's more like Zen, the teaching that shows to be free involves little more than realizing how you're unfree. Always were, always will be. And good riddance to all notions that arise from the moment of awakening on because if it's a game, it's a zero sum game. Enjoy the ride! ;-)
Yeah, it's always, ultimately, just words as descriptors of what's there. What's there may, I would say, possibly be organized in as unmoving a way as the words suggest, which is what I like about Looking into things over time, because you can gather principles that wouldn't seem to be possible to gather just based on how things always keep seeming to work, but then again, the principles still are what they are, and the words are still a second.@@AnthonyMetivierMMM
I use patterns to memorize things. And categories. When things fit into categories they are easier to fit into the memory filing cabinet for fast retrieval. However when information is all random bits and pieces without structure it is so much harder to imprint on the memory.
Category is indeed a powerful mnemonic strategy unto itself.
Anything in particular you're memorizing at the moment?
Anthony, you are a legend! Keep up the great work! ❤️🔥
Thank you for your kind words.
Anything you'd like to see covered on the channel going forward?
How come I missed this premiere?
Thanks Anthony for another awesome video 👌🏻👌🏻
I didn't premiere this one. I think I'll probably spend some time just releasing them as soon as I get them done instead of waiting for days.
That should give me more time for other projects and ultimately more videos on the channel.
Thanks as ever for your interest and support!
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I see
Well, whatever it takes to keep Ars Memoriae alive 🔥
Looking forward to reading your upcoming books. I got dibs on Bruno's Infinite Memory Palace, Vitamin X, Victorious Mind Part Deux and the Memory Detective Jr Series
Also, can't wait for the critical thinking cohort.
And maybe a course on Bruno to complement the book 👀🙂
I'm enthused by your interest in all of these things. There's yet another draft I just finished too.
The delays on the Bruno book will be worth it. I think I might make that book available only with a course, but time will tell. In many ways, it's good that the new translation will take a while to reach me because it helps me rethink many things as I continue developing my Latin.
Hopefully the artists will be done the third Memory Detective Jr. book soon two. Then there will only be two more to go. Such a lot of effort for just a few tiny books... but it will also be worth it.
Thanks again and talk soon!
Hello Antony, can you make a separate video on preparing for jee advances and other compatative exam, i hope you could give some advice on it.
Got you covered right here:
ua-cam.com/video/5-S8e6uC_oE/v-deo.html
Remember: put the techniques into action. Watching videos is only part of what it takes.
Thanks Anthony, your really an inspiration @@AnthonyMetivierMMM
Thanks for your kind words.
Another great recommendation.
Thanks so much for checking it out and for your support! More coming soon!
Your work is very good sir
I have been helped due to this many time.
But length of the videos is too much, may be if you shorten the time and get to the point quickly it will attract more views.
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Hi Anthony. I am a big fan of you. I have some questions for you:
1. How many words in a foreign language can someone memorise per day? (I have read that there was a guy who memorised 1000 words in 5 hours)
Which Iq score do I need in order to learn 1000 words in 5 hours (if possible)
Greetings and have a nice day Anthony!
Thank you for this question.
The exact amount will depend on your level of skill. I would suggest setting some milestones and benchmark against yourself, not others.
Great name, Fludd. Almost rolls off the tongue as good as, Fudd.
I actually had a pastor with the last name Frudd when I was a kid. I wonder if there was any relation or if the name has a history that would have morphed the sounding/spelling of the name.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Rob of @ Robwords is most likely to suggest an answer to that question.
Thanks Anthony! Good stuff.
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you mic is in perfect focus.
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Thanks again as always!
Thanks to you as well! Always appreciate your interest and support!
The More you read, the better you Read. Hmmmm. Of all things? Can that be said as well? Dancing? Writing? Vaulting? Horse back riding? Sports. I csn only bolt at one instance --- singing. Bless those Who are tone deaf! Thank you For a wonderful Video!! Respectfully Yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
More is not necessarily more. Greater attention to granular aspects are needed in deliberate practice to strengthen weaknesses and avoid creating new ones. 🙏
Is it possible to use one route/palace, but change the subject experiencing it to make it different?
I'm in med school and have to memorize pathology, its diseases for each organ. Could I use the same commute I take to school for each organ, but drive a different "car" to "separate" the palaces or would that be ineffective? Maybe pretend Im driving in a giant kidney one day LOL. Or would it be a better idea to designate a specific area of my city for each organ system?
I just found your channel today and this looks super fun. I also had an idea of taking my notes and creating a palace on the spot in different places in the city, and then do the mental retrieval part at home + actually walk there (without the notes) and practice retrieval.
Thanks for all the information :)
Thanks for your post. Please see my definitive guide to re-using Memory Palaces here:
ua-cam.com/video/Umt-innA-u8/v-deo.htmlsi=_YhWSIDv-OE6XHjt
Does it make sense and help you out?
Thanks for this. I look forward to trying my own adjusted version, because visual associations wouldn't work for a person like me. There is a small minority of people like myself who have low or zero ability visualize mentally. Human ability to visualize mentally is a continuum from phenomenal ability to with vivid, complex, memorable, recall-able, sustained, often animated images -to- zero ability at all to visualize images in one's mind. Zero ability is called aphantasia. Yes, aphantasia definitely a real thing. When I explain it to people with good visual ability, I have at times been met with disbelief. That's unfortunate. Rogue UA-cam self-help guru, David Snyder, denies the reality of aphantasia. That's terribly unfortunate. An aphantasiac would put it to you this way: "I was not shocked to learn that I could not see images in my mind; I was shocked to learn that other people could. How is that possible?" Upon learning about aphantasia, a common response is, "Just do visualization exercises and you'll get better. The brain is a muscle and the more you work it, the stronger it gets." I saw this retort to that common response in an aphantasia forum: "Would you tell a blind person to just do eye exercises and they will be all better?" That is to say, aphantasia is not about the lack of a good work ethic or self-discipline. I would assess myself at 1-2% ability to visualize. I'm guessing I could use sound or musical associations. That's what I'm going to try. Thanks again.
As discussed in this video, most mnemonics are based on logic, not visualization. As some of my hugely successful memory competition friends often say, there is simply no time for visualization, even if you can do it.
Sir I really like your videos. And I want to use memory techniques for remembering important things. When I study for exam I do remember the things I needed to pass the exam but after that a month passed by and I forgot everything I learned during the exam. It's like studying to pass the exam then forget everything I've learned. And I know that it's a part of being human but I still want to remember the important things that will help me reach my goals. Some peoples says that Mnemonics doesn't work they recommend techniques like space repetition. While the space repetition work really great but It kind of waste lots of time when I could be learning a different things. Even after using space repetition we forget what we learned 5 years ago. Does memory palace need space repetition too
To me having good memory is like money but not the kind of money that you use to buy suff. You can use money to buy other peoples time and have them do your work And memory is kind of like that to me. It's like having good memory is a way to buy your own time. I use memory techniques to learn language. When I was learning the word " Stink ". I imagine a bottle of ST companys ink is eating garbage near my house. So because it is eating garbage so It's mouth will smell very unpleasent which is the meaning of the word and " St + ink " makes the spelling of the word. Recently I watch an anime called Bluelock when they show the importance of have a mindset. Would you kind enough to watch that anime and make a video on it. Here's a question for you do you think a particular mindset can help us master memory techniques fast?
Sir, Anthony thanks for reading my comment
We use the Memory Palace precisely for an advanced form of spaced repetition. Enjoy its powerful effects if it’s the right approach for you! 🙏
Terrific channel!
Thank you.
Do you currently use memory techniques?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I am starting to use them. But I also follow your channel because it's intellectually stimulating and your delivery of the information is superb!
Glad you think so!
Anything you'd like to see covered moving forward?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I'm not sure if this is something that would call for a separate technique, but it would be great to learn tips for memorizing lines, scripts, song lyrics, monologues, etc.
Another interest is logic and rhetoric/critical thinking...is that something you would consider covering?
hello sir, i would like to know how and where i should start on memory palace. ive recently started watching your videos and am very interested.
What kinds of information do you want to remember better?
Can this be applied for accounting students? I'm so confused on how this could be used for accounting students. There r both concepts, critical thinking and perfect understanding of the concepts involved not just words like in biology or chemical reactions chemisty(chemistry is hard too I know that).
Yes, but I’d suggest getting into the modern version in my full training for accounting and chemistry. Fludd has no examples for what we deal with today.
Still thinks that you are the best out there !
ANTHONY its odd to me- (I'm coming from this as podcast) that "Robert Flood" didn't make the obvious example of a robber getting caught in a flood while doing something...related to Flood theories. I now have the name in my head and I don't even care about him! Just by taking a minute and seeing a robber get thrown over and bobbing along on a flood of water...Which proves these methods work.
I'm still and I've watched videos of yours- unsure of how to use this for LANGUAGE LEARNING....should I just memorize lists of common verbs using mnemonics? Or Memory Palace for verbs/nouns? I just conceptually get confused BEFORE I start.
I gave the example based on Fludd’s ideas and his teaching clearly states that a robber would be too vague in many minds - if it works in yours for one name, that is great. But I would suggest testing generic associations with dozens of names rather than deciding the generic approach works based on one name. It needs to work at scale, which is why specificity is key.
Regarding language learning, I have addressed this many times and urge people to contextualize the memory techniques within the Big Five of Language Learning. You can search that term on my channel for more info and I strongly encourage this holistic approach along with Fludd’s important recommendations for the mnemonic aspect. 🙏
How would one memorise an unusual name?
Some time ago I read about The Royal Society. Characters such as Joesoph Banks, and William Herchell, all very interesting but as I have a bad memory I used some memory tricks to help remember The names. Such as Hershell was a big arrow flashing and pointing to a females turtles shell for Her shell!
But the Unusal name that keeps slipping my mind is from a movie/cartoon. The name is Nausicaa. Pronounced Nah si caa. For some reason I cant recall that name when I need to. What Im thinking is three a syllables chant but I have no image to pin to each sylable help me burn it into my brain.,
any suggestions for remembering an odd word or name?
thanks for the info you upload.
Yes, the process I suggest starts with developing what you are calling an "image to pin" for each and every letter of the alphabet.
When you pre-develop these images, ideally using the Magnetic Modes, you'll be able to break down any number of syllables and always have images for each.
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This is an OLD technique which I learnt at least 40/50 years ago BUT it's time for is revival.
It works
Enjoy reviving your skills.
Do you recall who you originally learned them from?
Will it help with remembering chess lines in opening theory
It's possible. But you can start with this tutorial for that too:
ua-cam.com/video/eL_DrM7eQTo/v-deo.html
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM cheers man..much appreciated..great video!
can i use memory palaces to ace my exams in every subject?
Many others have. Why not you?
The Hermetic Art of Memory almost sounds like the Kemetic Art of Memory. All early Greek and some Roman scholars were taught by Africans in North Africa called Kemet which the Romans changed to Egypt after the invasion because of jealousy and an attempt to erase African history etc. During the invasion Aristotle took the opportunity thief God knows how many books from it's great library.
It’s even older and more culturally universal than that.
For more see the works of Tyson Yunkaporta and Lynne Kelly, both guests on my podcast for further investigation into the historical depths.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM For even more deeper depth of knowledge, you can check the works of the likes of Cheikh Anta Diop (General History of Africa 1~8 volume series) amongst other well written book authored by him. Also Chancellor Williams, W.E.B Du Bois just to name a few.
Then you'll realize it wasn't culturally universal but universally appropriated.
He's an interesting historian, as are all historians.
muito bom
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Why so many videos? shouldn't the right method require one video only with all condensed knowledge on most optimal method?
Please see:
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8 zigazillion ram....no cpu
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@@AnthonyMetivierMMM M for Mason
I've yet to meet a Mason for whom memory was not a serious concern and dedicated activity. You?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM It is required if they wanne "rise", another occult teaching is...
M = Mindcontrol
One guy tried that on me... didnt go well for him, didnt help him at all.
Oh really? What happened?
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As always a great video, Anthony, that instantly made me want to read this book. Interesting that the author decided to keep the latin original next to the english translation (if I understood correctly). My latin has gotten very rusty, but while reading Rhetorica ad Herenium I took a peek at the latin part every once in a while and I was suprised how much I still remembered, even after decades out of school. On another note: Is there a reason why you don't provide shopping links to the books you introduce?
Thanks so much for checking this one out and commenting.
In this book, the English translation follows the introduction, then the Latin. Although there are benefits to having the bilingual text on facing pages, I actually prefer it this way. It encourages anticipatory reading, which strengthens Latin laerning.
There is a reason for linking tactics, something best discussed elsewhere. But rest assured, there is almost always a reason behind just about everything online. And the best way to help independents out is to train the robots that humans care for them by searching manually and interacting meaningfully.
I think you're going to love this one and I know Lewis Masonic will appreciate any and all reviews people leave for the book.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thank you for your quick reply, Anthony. Your answer on the links suffices, thanks 🙂I will leave a comment after reading the book (probably where I purchased it)
Enjoy!