Keys to creating & using a memory palace:
- Make sure you know the place well. If you don’t know it well enough, walk through it in your mind and make it seem more real before using it as a memory palace. You can also create an imaginary place from scratch, but it takes a little longer and you might run into problems if you’re new to this.
- Place it in the real world somewhere. Even if it’s a fake place. Imagine it’s location in the real world. Put it behind a door you’ve seen, or maybe place it in a secret door underneath a landmark you know of. (Eg in a secret door that opens up underneath the Eiffel Tower)
- Establish a specific route you’ll take through the memory palace
- Place items you’d like to remember throughout the palace. Make them vivid and outlandish. Give them life and movement.
- Walk through the palace and make sure you can see all of the items you placed. If you can’t remember them, change the way you’ve visualized them.
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Memory Breakthrough: The Ultimate Guide To Remember Almost Anything - InnerGenius a new ‘virtual’ space just by imagining it, or you can go to Google Maps and use street view to walk through a real location and take note of landmarks (Eg. You can use a park near your house and use the swingsets, ponds etc as landmarks).
<span>Keys to creating & using a memory palace:
Make sure you know the place well. If you don’t know it well enough, walk through it in your mind and make it seem more real before using it as a memory palace. You can also create an imaginary place from scratch, but it takes a little longer and you might run into problems if you’re new to this. Place it in the real world somewhere. Even if it’s a fake place. Imagine it’s location in the real world. Put it behind a door you’ve seen, or maybe place it in a secret door underneath a landmark you know of. (Eg in a secret door that opens up underneath the Eiffel Tower) Establish a specific route you’ll take through the memory palace Place items you’d like to remember throughout the palace. Make them vivid and outlandish. Give them life and movement. Walk through the palace and make sure you can see all of the items you placed. If you can’t remember them, change the way you’ve visualized them.
Now, you might be thinking: well, it’s easy to visualize food in my memory palace, but how do I use this to remember numbers, names and speeches that don’t have smells and textures?
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