Re:How to Remember
by rorykoehler on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:39AM
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It's interesting in that I have a pretty amazing spatial memory. I can find my way around the wilderness (off trail) by identifying specific trees etc. I just find it exhausting to do the linking part of memory palace. It's literally easier for me just to remember outright, which I have little difficulty doing.
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It actually takes work to become good at linking pictures (which I rarely find highlighted in courses that cover mnemotechnic, probably because the author has forgotten he went through this step).
It took me around a year of regular practice to get to the point where it does not take me time and effort for each picture. The key for me was to want to memorise something that was so large that, even if using mnemotechnic was hard it was still way easier than to try and root learn it.
Re:How to Remember
by Baeocystin on Saturday June 15, 2019 @03:05AM
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FWIW, I consider myself to be a visual thinker, and feel the same as you. It's far more work to make the link that it is to just remember the dang thing in the first place, which (as long as the thing to be remembered slots in to some spot in an overall system) is close to effortless.