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Anonymous Thu 20 May 11:14:48 2021 No.13161729 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13161856 >>13161916 >>13163724

I want to improve my ability to memorise things. I seem to be about average at understanding concepts and ideas, but I am terrible at recalling specific information.

Any of you ever develop a personal system with min maps / ankii / flashcards etc. Which you can attest to?

It's limiting my ability to progress.

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Anonymous Thu 20 May 2021 11:19:04 No.13161745 Report

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I dunno, I can only memorize patterns and rules.
that's why I never remember my mom's birthday despite being told it many time often throughout the year.
that's also why my mom tell me when my birthday is, despite me telling her to stop reminding me because I don't care.
basically experience information, like from a book, any rule or pattern that you then use or is useful will arise or come up.
it just works.
also I'm very bad at names.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 May 2021 11:59:58 No.13161856 Report

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>>13161729
I am not a smart man.
I took Japanese as a second language.
I had to memorize so many kanji for tests, and to be honest, I knew I wouldn't use the majority of the information.

Before exams, I would cram memorize, by associating the kanji shapes to shapes I was more familiar with. When I actually thought about what I was doing, and forcing memorization of specific shapes, by associating them with other shapes I knew, that caused a much longer lasting and deeper memory.
I was specifically trying to memorize the kanji for car.
Kuruma.

I just double checked, and it is exactly as I remember it.

Perhaps combining associative memory, with a meta-memory of understanding that association, causes the memory to get mapped in more than one location of the brain. (That's my idea, from my anecdotal experience.)

I have nearly forgotten every single other kanji symbol I memorized in that method.

(By the way, I barely passed Japanese, but I passed damnit.)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 May 2021 12:09:44 No.13161873 Report

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>>13161856
>causes the memory to get mapped in more than one location of the brain

This is true. I've heard it described as making the memory "sticky" by associating things like smell, taste, an exaggerated mental image relating to it (the more ridiculous, the more it sticks)

The formula for calculating force is F=ma, despite it being just letters I can make something out of it like "Flying Mule Ass" so I picture a cartoonish mule with a rocket stuck up his ass being forcefully blasted into space... Therefor, F(lying)=m(ule)a(ss).

Lots of people remember the rainbow with ROY G.BIV because it sounds like an unusual name. I don't know the colours order by memory, but I can work through those letters and figure it out.

Same with the order of the planets. I don't know them by memory, but I know the sentence "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos", where the first letter of each word can be looked at and I can figure out what the associated planet is. Although again, I had to really envision being 6 years old, in a house that looked like a library with my mum arriving with her graduation hat on with a platter of nachos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 May 2021 12:24:31 No.13161916 Report

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>>13161729
The aboriginals in australia had to keep a lot of information with no written records. They seemingly developed a good way of remembering stuff.
Its consists of filling a landscape you are familiar with with the concepts you want to remember, similar to the mind palace method of the greeks. The difference with the abos' method is that they would create narratives and give certain personal traits to the concepts, as actors in a play. This seems to be slightly better than the memory palace method.
I myself make characters of the concepts and set some will or personality to them. This has helped me remember stuff easilly, but i do not know how much better than other methods it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 May 2021 20:23:42 No.13163724 Report

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>>13161729

There is an ancient technique for memorization which is referred to as the Art of Memory. It involves the usual concepts: association, spaced repetition, and yes, even drilling. Experiment with each way of remembering, and see what works better for you.

First, you have to care. You have to want to memorize whatever block of information you're learning. I personally strongly prefer association. If you know just one or two interesting reddit/meme facts about the object you're memorizing, you give meaning to the object, a context.

Example: Cameroon is a country in Africa. Fine, great, who cares. But if you know that like 30 years ago they had this weird event where a poison gas erupted from the earth's surface and came up around a specific lake and killed a bunch of people, now you have something odd and unique to associate with Cameroon. Cameroon: "oh yeah, the poison gas country".

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