Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards
by galuggus on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:10AM
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It made me much better at deliberately remembering information. I also believe it improves imagination. In the first place ( incidentally a phrase that originates in mnemonics) you are practicing making mental images. The less quotidian the better. Secondly you are required to put together wildly different objects to make easy mnemonics
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> In the first place ( incidentally a phrase that originates in mnemonics) [...]
Do you have a source for that or is it a gut feeling? In a quick Google search I couldn't find anything about the history of this idiom.
Here is a discussion: https://artofmemory.com/blog/first-place-second-place-5806.h....