Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards
by hairofadog on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:46AM
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I haven’t internalized this method yet, but I’m a fan of this video by a YouTube maker-type (“Crafsman”) explaining how to memorize numbers: https://youtu.be/zyqoCZIKsN0
Separately, I’m paranoid about forgetting people’s names, so for me (as other people are describing here) I find it helps to come up with a visualization or link their name to an idea: This guy I just met is named Dylan is bald, and Bob Dylan has crazy hair. The person up the street is named Beth like the KISS song. My favorite was a person named Mika, who was from Yakima, and who introduced herself by saying “I put the _mika_ in _Yakima_.” That was someone I barely knew more than five years ago and I’ll probably still have that one rolling around in my head if I still exist twenty years from now.
Separately, I’m paranoid about forgetting people’s names, so for me (as other people are describing here) I find it helps to come up with a visualization or link their name to an idea: This guy I just met is named Dylan is bald, and Bob Dylan has crazy hair. The person up the street is named Beth like the KISS song. My favorite was a person named Mika, who was from Yakima, and who introduced herself by saying “I put the _mika_ in _Yakima_.” That was someone I barely knew more than five years ago and I’ll probably still have that one rolling around in my head if I still exist twenty years from now.