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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:51:05 +0000

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How To: 121 Ways to Increase Brain Power | Cogent Nirvana — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:52:24 +0000

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By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:37:49 +0000

I know! It’s truly amazing indeed! As I said in this comment on the Memory Palace post:

“Memory champions like Dominic do have some additional secrets, of course. To be completely fair, guys like him don’t use the Memory Palace technique alone, but usually combine it with other techniques (such as phonetic systems).”

Other than that, I’d say it’s practice, practice, practice…

By: Frik van Eeden

Frik van Eeden — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:41:11 +0000

I,ve read somewhere that some guy can memorise all playing cards in one or more packs of 52 each, by looking at the cards only once. He used the palace method, they say. How does he do it? I find the palace method almost like magic for shopping lists and diary-type lists. Using it however for such large lists as packs of playing cards, sounds formidable to me!

By: Marissa Turnbow

Marissa Turnbow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:44:13 +0000

Annie,

I liked your pegs and vivid descriptions. Would you mind listing more than the first five?

Thank you.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:41:15 +0000

This doesn’t make you strange at all! The list of items in the article is presented as a quick learning example. Pegging can be extended to hundreds of items, and it also serves as a basic framework for many other memory techniques.

For our short list, try remembering it, say, next week — without using the pegging. Then, take another list and try it again, this time using pegging. Its power will probably become evident then.

By: Cujo

Cujo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:13:27 +0000

I don’t know if it makes me strange or something, but without any mnenomics at all I memorized all ten things in about 30 seconds, finished the article, then had them all back in order.
Without copy-pasting, I can think
Bacon
Eggs
Wine
Batteries
Bubble Gum
Spinnach
Milk
Envelopes
Coffee
a tomato.

I did struggle a bit with the milk-coffee at first, though, but it came back to me.

By: Vincento

Vincento — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:30:32 +0000

I can not begin to thank you enough for all your help I have taken from Litemind articles. A year ago I received a very serious head injury and have been strugging intensely to recover ever since and you have helped enormously. The Memory Palace post was precisely what I needed to help myself put back some of the missing pieces of my memory. Thank you again and keep it coming.

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Remember Any Number with the Major Memory System — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:24:57 +0000

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