Long time lurker in the shadows. Finally decided it's about time for me to start contributing my share after having learned so much from the people on this forum. At your service, gentlemen ![[Image: amuse.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/new/amuse.gif)
. I'm going to start by writing about something that I've grown quite familiar with. Mastering your memory. I'm going to divide this post into three sections:
The ''What?''
The ''Why?''
And the most vital of all:
The ''How?''
Onward.
The ''What?''
Throughout history (Especially before the widespread habit of writing shit down), men have always had a need to memorize important information. For a military commander this would've been about memorizing the names of your troops. For a noble man this would've been about memorizing the achievements, the life stories and the legends of your family. For a politician this would've been about memorizing your speeches (The great orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero, actually being one of the early contributors of memory techniques!). In a nutshell, the art of memory is making it as easy as possible for a person to remember huge exact chunks of information.
Among memory athletes, there is a widespread consensus of 'the Golden Age of Memory' having ended in somewhere between 120 BC to 70 BC. After the fall of Rome these techniques were forgotten for many centuries until they resurfaced among the clergy only to be discarded again after Mr. Guttenberg's invention. After this, I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise to say that many mental athletes today think of our age as the dark days of memory art.
Onward.
The ''Why?''
Let the plebs mush their brains with Candy Crush, excessive booze, smart phones and HD porn. In a world of multitasking and ever-shortening attention spans, a man with patience and analytical skills will be a king. Mastering your memory will not only make you a better learner, it will also make you smarter, more focused, more self-disciplined, more witty and more mentally present. Force your brains to process the surrounding world in a new, different way and you will attain anything you want. It won't be easy to rewire your thinking process, but it is worth it.
Your search for the Holy Grail has just begun, Sir Lancelot.
Onward.
''The How?''
The dark side of the force can be summed up to one thing and one thing only: Imagination.
The more peculiar you make the bit of information to be, the better you will remember it. Better your imagination, better ways you can invent to twist and turn the information in your mind for it to be remembered.
For example, we can memorize this numero sequence: 457890023953.
First we split the numbers into pairs (you can do threes or fours as well if you like, for me pairs work the best): 45 – 78 – 90 – 02 – 39 – 53
The end of WW2, Jonestown massacre, the black riders tenfold (I visualize them tenfold in my mind), 10 -year old me, Winter War, rapper 50cent on a tricycle.
Imagination.
Now the longer the sequence is, more important it becomes for you to insert a link between the memories to make sure your link stays intact. For example your tasks for the day: Buy onions from the store, go to the gym, call James about friday, buy Tesla Motors stocks.
In this case I'd imagine something like this: Guy peeling onions and crying → It's Arnold Schwarzenegger → Talking on the phone with James Bond → About Ice Cube's movie → Where junior gangstas drive Elon Musk's car.
The more you do this, the better you get and the more you enjoy this. I like to think the game-term ''amused mastery'' can also be applied here. Have fun inside your head about the trivial stuff surrounding you. You can also enhance your memory links by placing your memories inside a house familiar to you (''the Memory Palace '' used by Dr. Hannibal Lecter) or on some familiar route you've taken many times.
Recommended reading: ''Moonwalking with Einstein'' (Joshua Foer), ''Master your memory'' (Tony Buzan), ''How to memorize math and equations'' (Anthony Metivier) and ''Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes'' (Maria Konnikova).
Hopefully you find this information useful and this post serves as a conversation starter for further inquiries into this area.
PS. Seeing as many on this forum want to learn russian, it might be of interest to you that I'm currently going through memory guru Anthony Metivier's ''How to learn and memorize russian vocabulary''. I will post a review sometime in the future![[Image: smile.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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. I'm going to start by writing about something that I've grown quite familiar with. Mastering your memory. I'm going to divide this post into three sections: The ''What?''
The ''Why?''
And the most vital of all:
The ''How?''
Onward.
The ''What?''
Throughout history (Especially before the widespread habit of writing shit down), men have always had a need to memorize important information. For a military commander this would've been about memorizing the names of your troops. For a noble man this would've been about memorizing the achievements, the life stories and the legends of your family. For a politician this would've been about memorizing your speeches (The great orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero, actually being one of the early contributors of memory techniques!). In a nutshell, the art of memory is making it as easy as possible for a person to remember huge exact chunks of information.
Among memory athletes, there is a widespread consensus of 'the Golden Age of Memory' having ended in somewhere between 120 BC to 70 BC. After the fall of Rome these techniques were forgotten for many centuries until they resurfaced among the clergy only to be discarded again after Mr. Guttenberg's invention. After this, I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise to say that many mental athletes today think of our age as the dark days of memory art.
Onward.
The ''Why?''
Let the plebs mush their brains with Candy Crush, excessive booze, smart phones and HD porn. In a world of multitasking and ever-shortening attention spans, a man with patience and analytical skills will be a king. Mastering your memory will not only make you a better learner, it will also make you smarter, more focused, more self-disciplined, more witty and more mentally present. Force your brains to process the surrounding world in a new, different way and you will attain anything you want. It won't be easy to rewire your thinking process, but it is worth it.
Your search for the Holy Grail has just begun, Sir Lancelot.
Onward.
''The How?''
The dark side of the force can be summed up to one thing and one thing only: Imagination.
The more peculiar you make the bit of information to be, the better you will remember it. Better your imagination, better ways you can invent to twist and turn the information in your mind for it to be remembered.
For example, we can memorize this numero sequence: 457890023953.
First we split the numbers into pairs (you can do threes or fours as well if you like, for me pairs work the best): 45 – 78 – 90 – 02 – 39 – 53
The end of WW2, Jonestown massacre, the black riders tenfold (I visualize them tenfold in my mind), 10 -year old me, Winter War, rapper 50cent on a tricycle.
Imagination.
Now the longer the sequence is, more important it becomes for you to insert a link between the memories to make sure your link stays intact. For example your tasks for the day: Buy onions from the store, go to the gym, call James about friday, buy Tesla Motors stocks.
In this case I'd imagine something like this: Guy peeling onions and crying → It's Arnold Schwarzenegger → Talking on the phone with James Bond → About Ice Cube's movie → Where junior gangstas drive Elon Musk's car.
The more you do this, the better you get and the more you enjoy this. I like to think the game-term ''amused mastery'' can also be applied here. Have fun inside your head about the trivial stuff surrounding you. You can also enhance your memory links by placing your memories inside a house familiar to you (''the Memory Palace '' used by Dr. Hannibal Lecter) or on some familiar route you've taken many times.
Recommended reading: ''Moonwalking with Einstein'' (Joshua Foer), ''Master your memory'' (Tony Buzan), ''How to memorize math and equations'' (Anthony Metivier) and ''Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes'' (Maria Konnikova).
Hopefully you find this information useful and this post serves as a conversation starter for further inquiries into this area.
PS. Seeing as many on this forum want to learn russian, it might be of interest to you that I'm currently going through memory guru Anthony Metivier's ''How to learn and memorize russian vocabulary''. I will post a review sometime in the future
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