This such great stuff and vital to anyone who aspires to "write." Me, I just type for the moment. I am in the process of de-lawyering my rhetorical self. Time to re-visit the canons of rhetoric, of which memoria is the most useful. Your substack has arrived at the right place at the right time.
Superb - just tried the image version on the site you linked with my son and will make memory part of our school routine. Thanks so much for your detailed and helpful work!
Excellent! It is my pleasure. This is great to hear. If he continues memory training until he graduates he will become a pro. Typically, people find out about mnemonics much later in life because they are not formally taught in schools.
Question on the memory palace: Do you have one palace with 13 loci and you just use it every time you're doing image work? How do you avoid having past images from a prior attempt appear in a particular location in your palace?
Good question. So, I would not use a memory palace back-to-back in one day, I would only use it once in a training session. For example, you can have two memory palaces dedicated for training Images in which you alternate its use.
- Day 1: Use Memory Palace #1
- Day 2: Use Memory Palace #2
- Day 3: Use Memory Palace #1
- Day 4: Use Memory Palace #2
- Day 5: Use Memory Palace #1
If you use them back-to-back in one day, as you have mentioned, you will have what is known as “Ghost Images”, that is, previous images that interfere with new images.
For, this reason it is recommended to alternate, and your previous images should fade away after a day as long as you don’t review them. Ideally, it would be better to have 7 memory palaces dedicated for each day of the week. But, if one is only training 15 minutes a day, two to three times a week, then 2 memory palaces is sufficient.
I plan to have an entire post covering this topic of palace organization and ghost images soon. But excellent question! Thanks for asking. Hope my response helped.
Dear Memory Guy,
This such great stuff and vital to anyone who aspires to "write." Me, I just type for the moment. I am in the process of de-lawyering my rhetorical self. Time to re-visit the canons of rhetoric, of which memoria is the most useful. Your substack has arrived at the right place at the right time.
Thanks, and don't stop.
Superb - just tried the image version on the site you linked with my son and will make memory part of our school routine. Thanks so much for your detailed and helpful work!
Excellent! It is my pleasure. This is great to hear. If he continues memory training until he graduates he will become a pro. Typically, people find out about mnemonics much later in life because they are not formally taught in schools.
Great walk-through of the method and the experience for memorizing images!
Thanks, appreciate it! Glad you liked it
Question on the memory palace: Do you have one palace with 13 loci and you just use it every time you're doing image work? How do you avoid having past images from a prior attempt appear in a particular location in your palace?
Good question. So, I would not use a memory palace back-to-back in one day, I would only use it once in a training session. For example, you can have two memory palaces dedicated for training Images in which you alternate its use.
- Day 1: Use Memory Palace #1
- Day 2: Use Memory Palace #2
- Day 3: Use Memory Palace #1
- Day 4: Use Memory Palace #2
- Day 5: Use Memory Palace #1
If you use them back-to-back in one day, as you have mentioned, you will have what is known as “Ghost Images”, that is, previous images that interfere with new images.
For, this reason it is recommended to alternate, and your previous images should fade away after a day as long as you don’t review them. Ideally, it would be better to have 7 memory palaces dedicated for each day of the week. But, if one is only training 15 minutes a day, two to three times a week, then 2 memory palaces is sufficient.
I plan to have an entire post covering this topic of palace organization and ghost images soon. But excellent question! Thanks for asking. Hope my response helped.