Comments on: Improve Your Memory by Speaking Your Mind’s Language

By: Dhiren

Dhiren — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:56:57 +0000

These are excellent ways to train the brain and have fun at the same time; and I understand after some practice the brain relies less on the conscious effort to remember and does things automatically. One question that has been in my mind for a while now is: how do you ensure there is no mix up in space and time e.g. more than one list on one specific time and a similar list that changes overtime?

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:14:49 +0000

Annie: Thanks for outlining your system.
Many people in comments (both here and in the ‘Memory Palace’ post) have asked for a memory technique that works better with people that are ‘less visual’. Although the rhyming system also ends up in images, the triggers are based on hearing the sound of the word — and that certainly works better for more auditory people.

By: Annie Maier

Annie Maier — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:17:33 +0000

I have used the pegging method for years but used the system of rhyme/numbers to set up the memory process. Again you use a crazy story attached to each number/rhyme word. Also try to invoke the use of other senses besides sight. Here is the list of the first 5 numbers and their stories.

1. run- picture a horse running around a race track with the item you want to remember on it’s back, imagine the sound of hooves hitting the track, people screaming
2, zoo- Monkeys in a cage at the zoo chattering and throwing the item you want to remember through the bars at you.
3. tree- Item you want to remember hanging on Christmas pine tree, smell the pine
4. door- Wreath on a door containing your item to remember
5. dive- diving into an ocean of the item you want to remember don’t forget the sound it would make.
You can see how this goes.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:16:04 +0000

Hi Rob,

Thank you so much for the detailed comment — I really appreciate your time in crafting it.

Using a phonetic system is indeed great for memorization, especially for big numbers as you say. You can even go further and link different images in a story. That way, you can, for example, memorize many phone numbers using the same “visual context”.

Great phonetic vocabulary, by the way! Thanks!

By: Rob Moshe

Rob Moshe — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:14:26 +0000

The system reminds me of a book I read by Harry Lorayne.
He used a phonetic numbering system.

Though it takes a few minutes to get used to the basics it is incredibly versatile.

0 s, z, soft c “z” is the first letter of zero. The others have a similar sound

1 d, t d, t have one downstroke and sound similar(some variants include th)

2 n n has two downstrokes

3 m three downstrokes , also “m” looks like a “3″ on its side

4 r last letter of four

5 l L is the Roman Numeral for 50

6 j, sh, soft ch, dg, zh, soft g a script j has a lower loop / g is almost a 6 flipped over

7 k, hard c, hard g, q, qu capital K contains two sevens

8 f, v script f resembles a figure-8. V sounds similar. (some variants include th)

9 b, p p is a mirror-image 9. b sounds similar and resembles a 9 rolled around

Unassigned Vowel sounds, w,h,y These can be used anywhere without changing a word’s number value

1-tie
2-Noah
3-ma
4-Rye
5-Law
6-jail
7-cow
8-Ivy
9-Bee
10-toes

The versatility of the phonetic system is once you get longer sequences of numbers it is easier to create images to remember them.
For example a phone number.

613-894-7894 can become Madam- viper - cough - pair

The visualization becomes a madam dressed in a gown of vipers that are coughing out pairs.

The added benefit is that you are often creating new images, which in it self is a great mental exercise.

Great Topic.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:14:40 +0000

Hi Nick,
The memory palace is a great technique (the best, in my opinion). I will definitely explore it here in the blog.
Thanks for your comment!

By: Nick Pagan

Nick Pagan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:35:20 +0000

This is a nice introduction to using mnemonics. It’s very important to correlate the item to be memorized to some other well known item. Apparently, according to research that I have read, the mind cannot properly memorize anything without relating it to something else. That’s why the memory palace can work so well. We take something that we know very well and then relate items within that room to things that we want to remember in bizarre and fantastic ways.

That probably also accounts for why I find it so hard to do memorization for language learning. I don’t relate them to other things sufficiently well.

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By: isabella mori

isabella mori — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:02:17 +0000

the idea behind this is very important: speak your mind’s language. however, we need to remember that not everyone thinks visually. for some people, a tactile, sound, conceptual of moving anchor might work better.

mnemonics are endlessly fascinating, aren’t they?

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:28:54 +0000

Hi, Luciano.

Memory Palace is indeed a very powerful technique. It’s probably the most effective among the three, but I found it requires much more training to be applied successfully. That’s why it’s the most used among the memory champions.

It combines the advantages of both peg and story systems:
* You can recall items in random order (a peg system feature) and
* You can make put all items in the same context (a story system feature).