Mnemonic Memory Palace Book One

By Sjur Midttun

"How to Build Mnemonics Memory Palaces" (a two book set) is a no-nonsense, practical guide on how to conceive and build memory palaces, and exactly how to feed them with information that you want to memorize. The book is full of examples, making it easier to understand. In the book you will get the answer to many questions, including the following: What is a memory palace? How do you build your first couple of memory palaces. Unlike other popular books on the subject, like "Moonwalking with Einstein", the book "How to Build a Mnemonic Memory Palace" focuses on practical, hands on advice. Information that will get you started making your own memory palaces from day one. This volume, book one, explains the fundamental technique of creative mnemonic visualization, and how to configure memory palaces.

Memory palaces are an ancient, yet somehow forgotten, method of memorizing all kinds of information. Before the printing press was invented, content was passed on verbally from person to person. And using the Greek tradition of memory palaces, scholars could store vast amounts of information. These techniques have seen an increased interest lately, and many people who have been inspired by memory palaces from TV-series like "Sherlock" or books like "Hannibal", want to find a way to easily get started making memory palaces. "How to Build a Mnemonic Memory Palace" literally takes you by the hand and walks you through the process, step by step.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sjur Midttun
• Release date: Jun 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310385773

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How to Build a Mnemonic Memory Palace:

The Forgotten Craft of Memorizing With Total Recall.

Book One (of two)

By Sjur Midttun

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Copyright 2016 by Sjur Midttun

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Author’s Preface

Most books on memory palaces start with a historic explanation for the phenomenon, and then evolves in a very literary style without a good focus on how one can really learn how to make memory palaces.

This book is different.

It’s a practical guide to how you anyone can create memory palaces, and how you can use them to memorize things.

This is the complete set of both books in the series volume of a two-volume set.

Sjur Midttun, 5th of June, 2016

To my father, Knut.

Table of contents

Author’s preface

BOOK ONE: The fundamentals

Chapter one: Remembering is seeing

Chapter two: Ancient knowledge forgotten

Chapter three: What is a memory palace?

Chapter four: No need to be a genius, just make it absurd

Chapter five: Your first memory palace

Chapter six: Memory areas, memory walks and memory journeys

Chapter seven: Basic tips and tricks

Chapter eight: Managing your different memory palaces

Chapter nine: More about keywords

Chapter ten: A sample memory palace walk through

Chapter eleven: Troubleshooting the technique

Chapter twelve: Recap, and tips on going forward with this knowledge

BOOK TWO:

Chapter one: Memorizing playing cards and learning the PAO-system

Chapter two: Presidential practice

Chapter three: Shakespearian practice

Chapter four: The secret of joining your memory palaces together

Chapter five: Long term storage palaces

Chapter six: Memorizing speeches

Chapter seven: Memorizing textbooks

Chapter eight: Memory palaces and learning languages

Chapter nine: Learning how to conceive and build a virtual memory palace

Chapter ten: How to use apps and software to boost your work

Chapter eleven: Summary, and plan for going forward

Chapter one: Remembering is seeing

How good is your memory? If I asked you to take three to five minutes and memorize the following list of 20 objects, how many items would you be able to remember? Try it now, and see. Set aside three to five minutes, and memorize as many of these objects as possible, in sequence.

Fish, carpet, cigarette, pencil, hamburger, phone, football, umbrella, key, beard, typewriter, car tire, dinner plate, ear, pillow, boat, apple tree, toothbrush, necklace, a bottle of beer.

How did you do?

If you’re like most people, you are probably able to memorize six or seven of these objects in sequence over the course of a few minutes. Most people are not able to memorize much more than nine objects, and virtually nobody more than ten.

One of the reasons is probably that most people memorize lists by repetition. By repeating the list (again and again and again), they manage to remember. Give them long enough time, and most people would be able to remember the whole list of 20 objects if they didn’t give up because of boredom.

But with a time constraint of five minutes, the majority will only be able to memorize up to max ten objects.

Let’s experiment.

Thinking differently about memorization

In the following five minutes you will learn how to memorize all these 20 objects in just five minutes or less, only looking over the list once. No repetition needed. The technique you will learn lies at the heart of traditional memory techniques, which are also called mnemonics.

But first - a word of caution. The system will involve absurdity. It will involve being silly. Memory techniques use silliness and absurdity for a reason. It gets results. So stay open-minded to the experiment. Follow these principles, the results will speak for themselves.

With this technique, you can memorize lists of 20, 50, 100 in fact as many objects as you want, in sequence, just by looking at each entry once. No limits, just like your natural memory has no practical limit. And imagine, if you can do this kind of memory feat, memorizing any information is possible.

The thing about memory is that the trick isn’t really to learn information, but to recall it. The human brain can store an enormous amount of information, but in most cases, this information is not at one’s fingertips. Using memory techniques, information once learned will be at your fingertips, ready to use.

So what’s the secret?

Visualization

Well, the basis of memory techniques is visualization.

Some people are naturally good at this, but others need more practice. But everyone can do it. If I ask you to close your eyes and imagine the front door of the house you live in, you will have no problem doing that. Or your office building, or the interior of your car, or the second floor of your house, etc.

You can

Reviews for Mnemonic Memory Palace Book One

[Dorcas Checa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

One of the books I read quickly, completed swiftly and found to contain the most efficient memorization techniques I have ever applied.

[alexandre narolles · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A good book to learn the principles of the technic.