What is the way to remember the memory of the palace?

First, you need to choose a place that you are very familiar with. The effectiveness of this technology depends on your ability to easily reproduce this place in your mind and walk in it. You must be able to be there with only your mental eye.

For example, a better initial choice may be your home. Remember, the more vividly you reproduce the details of this place, the more effectively you can remember it.

Secondly, try to determine a special route in your palace instead of just recreating a still scene. In other words, imagine a detailed trip to your home instead of simply imagining your home. As we will see in the next step, if you can recall these projects in a certain order, it will greatly enhance the effect of this technology.

For the choice of memory palace, here are some effective suggestions and routes to take:

The familiar roads in your city. Possible routes, such as the street sequence you drive to work or other streets you are familiar with.

Present or former school. You can imagine the way from the classroom to the library (or to the bar across the street, if that reminds you).

Workplace. Imagine going from your cubicle to the coffee machine, or to your boss's office (not difficult to choose).

Scenery. Imagine walking around or jogging in the park.

2, list the obvious characteristics

What you need to pay attention to now is the obvious characteristics of the selected place. For example, if you choose to visit your home, the gate should be the first feature to attract attention.

Go on a virtual walk in your memory palace. What's in the first room after entering the door?

Break down the room systematically (you can determine a standard procedure, such as always looking from left to right). What's the next feature that catches your attention? It can be a table in the middle of the restaurant or a picture on the wall.

Continue to record other features in your mind while walking. Each of them will become a "memory slot", which you can use to store specific information.

3. Keep the palace firmly in mind.

To make this method effective, the most important thing is to make this place or route 100% imprinted in your mind. Remember it as much as you can. If you are good at thinking in images, it shouldn't be difficult. If not, here are some tips to help you:

Follow the route and go by yourself. When you see those obvious features, repeat them loudly.

Write down the selected features on paper, scan them in your mind and repeat them loudly.

Always look at these characteristics from the same angle.

Understand that thinking in images is a skill. If you still find it difficult, you may have to improve your thinking ability in images first.

When you believe you have succeeded, repeat it several times. It is very important for your memory palace to "practice" your route a lot.

As long as you are confident that the route has been deeply imprinted in your mind, you are ready. You already have your palace, and it will be used repeatedly to remember anything you want.

Step 4 contact

Now that you are the master of your palace, you can make good use of it.

Like most memory enhancement methods, the memory palace method works through visualized association. The process is simple: you choose a known image-called a memory hook-and then combine it with the elements you want to remember. For us, the memory hook is an obvious feature in our memory palace.

Memory linking is a method described in the article "Improving memory: speaking the language of your brain". If you haven't seen it, it is highly recommended.

According to the description in that article, the correct way to visualize the association is:

Crazy, funny, annoying, unusual, otherworldly, vivid and absurd-in short, those things are easy to remember, aren't they? Create a unique scene that will never happen in real life. The only rule is: boredom is wrong.

Although this technique can remember a lot of information, let's start with a simple one: using the memory palace of "home" to remember the shopping list. Suppose the first item on the list is "cured meat".

Let your mind take you to your memory palace. The first feature that comes to mind is your door. Now, visually combine "cured meat" with the appearance of your front door in an interesting way. For example, imagine a giant bacon stick coming out of the door like a zombie in a B-rated movie and reaching for your leg. How's this? Feel the touch of bacon's hand on your leg. To feel the damn evil smell of bacon. Is this impressive enough?

Now open the door and keep walking along the route you have determined. The next feature you see, associate it with the next project you want to remember. For example, the next item is "eggs" and the second feature is "photos of mother-in-law". Good, now you know what to do ... the program is the same, just keep the picture association in your mind until all the items to remember are solved.

5. Visit your palace

By this point, you have memorized those projects. But if you are a novice, you may need to make some changes, at least rehearse the itinerary in your mind.

If you start from the same place and take the same route, every time you see the characteristics you choose on the way, what you want to remember will emerge instantly. From the beginning to the end of the route, pay attention to those features and repeat the scene in your mind. When your trip is over, turn around and walk back to your starting point in the opposite direction.

In the final analysis, it is all to enhance the ability of thinking in images. The more relaxed you are, the easier it will be and the better you will remember it.