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How to Build a Memory Palace

How to Build a Memory Palace

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A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mnemonic images. The most common type of memory palace involves making a journey through a place you know well, like a building or town. Along that journey there are specific locations that you always visit in the same order.

A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mnemonic images. The most common type of memory palace involves making a journey through a place you know well, like a building or town. Along that journey there are specific locations that you always visit in the same order. The location are called loci, which is Latin for locations.

How to Create a Memory Palace

  1. Step 1: For your first memory palace, try choosing a place that you know well, like your home or office.
  2. Step 2: Plan out the whole route -- for example: front door, shoe rack, bathroom, kitchen, living room, etc. Some people find that going clockwise is helpful, but it isn't necessary. Eventually, you will have many memory palaces. You will also be able to revise the memory palace after you test it a few times, so don't worry if it's perfect on the first try.
  3. Step 3: Now take a list of something that you want to memorize -- a shopping list of 20 items is a good place to start: carrots, bread, milk, tea, oats, apples, etc.
  4. Step 4: Take one or two items at a time and place a mental image of them in each locus of your memory palace. Try to exaggerate the images of the items and have them interact with the location. For example, if the first item is "carrots" and the first locus in your memory palace is the front door, picture some giant carrots opening up your front door.
  5. Step 5: Make the mnemonic images come alive with your senses. Exaggeration of the images and humor can help.
  6. Step 6: See the instructions below.

For example:

Create the Memory Palace

We will create our memory palace in this location:

Ioulia-kea-photo.jpg

Once you have a location for your memory palace, find a sequence of locations to store memories. These locations will never change. You will always review them in the same order. If you don't already have a preference, it may be better to arrange your locations in a clockwise direction, top to bottom, or left to right. Don't worry about that for now though. In this example, the locations are chosen for you.

Ceos Memory Palace.jpg

Notice how they follow a coherent journey around the location:

Ceos Memory Palace Example.jpg

You aren't limited to just a narrow area. You can use the same technique by walking around your town or a building, and choosing locations along the way.

In this example, the locations are:

  1. The top of the stairs
  2. The ledge next to the stairs
  3. The stairs next to the ledge
  4. The slanted part of the wall
  5. The bottom step
  6. On top of the wall
  7. On the bench
  8. In the hole above the door
  9. Peeking through one of the windows
  10. In front of the door
  11. Hanging from the bars over the window
  12. Inside of the doorway
  13. Among the red flowers
  14. Hiding in the bushes
  15. On the step

It is helpful to mentally walk through the journey several times until you can do it with your eyes closed. Also try mentally walking through the journey backwards to be sure that you can do it in both directions.

Placing the Memories

Basically, you'll make visual representations (mnemonic images) for each of the things that you want to remember.

In this tutorial, we'll use our example mind palace to memorize the first 15 elements in the periodic table of elements.

Let's create and place images!

First Location

Here is a reference image for the first few locations:

Memory Palace Locations 1-4.jpg

The first location in our memory palace is at the top of the stairs on the left.

The first element in the periodic table is hydrogen. We need a mnemonic image to represent hydrogen. It could be the Sun (which is mostly hydrogen), or maybe water (H20).

The process of creating mnemonic images becomes much easier with practice, so don't be discouraged if it takes you a little effort in the beginning to think of something memorable.

I would imagine a picture of the Sun at location #1.

Second Location

The second location is the ledge next to the stairs. The second element is helium. Imagine a helium balloon tied to the stone at position #2.

Third Location

The third location is on the stairs next to the ledge. The third element is lithium. An image for lithium could be a lithium battery.

You could picture a battery rolling down the stairs.

Fourth Location

The fourth location is on the sloping base of the wall. In this place, we will store a memory that represents beryllium.

The word "beryllium" reminds me of a berry. I would picture a berry being smashed against the wall.

Fifth Location

Memory Palace Locations 5-7.jpg

At the fifth location (the step), we will place an image to represent boron.

"Boron" sounds like "boar", so place an image of a boar there.

Sixth Location

The sixth element is carbon. A good mnemonic image for "carbon" is "car". Imagine a car racing along the ledge.

Seventh Location

The seventh element is nitrogen. An image that sounds like "nitrogen" is "knight". Imagine a jousting knight racing across the step on a horse.

Eighth Location

Memory Palace Locations 8-9.jpg

The eighth element is oxygen. When I think of oxygen, I imagine a space suit. I would picture an astronaut with an oxygen tank floating at position #8.

Ninth Location

Element #9 is fluorine. "Fluorine" sounds like "fluoride". I would imagine cleaning the windows with a toothbrush and toothpaste.

Tenth Location

Memory Palace Location 10.jpg

The tenth element is neon. Picture a neon sign at the foot of the door. Maybe you are smashing a neon sign on the stones there.

Eleventh Location

Memory Palace Locations 11-12.jpg

The eleventh element is sodium. You could picture a salt shaker embedded in the wall or being pushed out of the window.

Twelfth Location

The twelfth element is magnesium. I would imagine a magnesium fire starter in the darkened doorway.

Thirteenth Location

Memory Palace Locations 13-15.jpg

The thirteenth element is aluminium. Imagine aluminium foil wrapped around the plant.

Fourteenth Location

The fourteenth element is silicon. Picture silicon computer chips at position #14.

Fifteenth Location

The fifteenth element is phosphorous. All that a mnemonic image needs to do is get you past the tip of the tongue effect. "Phosphorous" has a similar beginning as "Fozzie Bear". Picturing Fozzie Bear should be enough to help you recall phosphorous, at least after mentally walking through the memory palace a few times.

A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mnemonic images. The most common type of memory palace involves making a journey through a place you know well, like a building or town. Along that journey there are specific locations that you always visit in the same order.

A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mnemonic images. The most common type of memory palace involves making a journey through a place you know well, like a building or town. Along that journey there are specific locations that you always visit in the same order. The location are called loci, which is Latin for locations.

How to Create a Memory Palace

  1. Step 1: For your first memory palace, try choosing a place that you know well, like your home or office.
  2. Step 2: Plan out the whole route -- for example: front door, shoe rack, bathroom, kitchen, living room, etc. Some people find that going clockwise is helpful, but it isn't necessary. Eventually, you will have many memory palaces. You will also be able to revise the memory palace after you test it a few times, so don't worry if it's perfect on the first try.
  3. Step 3: Now take a list of something that you want to memorize -- a shopping list of 20 items is a good place to start: carrots, bread, milk, tea, oats, apples, etc.
  4. Step 4: Take one or two items at a time and place a mental image of them in each locus of your memory palace. Try to exaggerate the images of the items and have them interact with the location. For example, if the first item is "carrots" and the first locus in your memory palace is the front door, picture some giant carrots opening up your front door.
  5. Step 5: Make the mnemonic images come alive with your senses. Exaggeration of the images and humor can help.
  6. Step 6: See the instructions below.

For example:

Create the Memory Palace

We will create our memory palace in this location:

Ioulia-kea-photo.jpg

Once you have a location for your memory palace, find a sequence of locations to store memories. These locations will never change. You will always review them in the same order. If you don't already have a preference, it may be better to arrange your locations in a clockwise direction, top to bottom, or left to right. Don't worry about that for now though. In this example, the locations are chosen for you.

Ceos Memory Palace.jpg

Notice how they follow a coherent journey around the location:

Ceos Memory Palace Example.jpg

You aren't limited to just a narrow area. You can use the same technique by walking around your town or a building, and choosing locations along the way.

In this example, the locations are:

  1. The top of the stairs
  2. The ledge next to the stairs
  3. The stairs next to the ledge
  4. The slanted part of the wall
  5. The bottom step
  6. On top of the wall
  7. On the bench
  8. In the hole above the door
  9. Peeking through one of the windows
  10. In front of the door
  11. Hanging from the bars over the window
  12. Inside of the doorway
  13. Among the red flowers
  14. Hiding in the bushes
  15. On the step

It is helpful to mentally walk through the journey several times until you can do it with your eyes closed. Also try mentally walking through the journey backwards to be sure that you can do it in both directions.

Placing the Memories

Basically, you'll make visual representations (mnemonic images) for each of the things that you want to remember.

In this tutorial, we'll use our example mind palace to memorize the first 15 elements in the periodic table of elements.

Let's create and place images!

First Location

Here is a reference image for the first few locations:

Memory Palace Locations 1-4.jpg

The first location in our memory palace is at the top of the stairs on the left.

The first element in the periodic table is hydrogen. We need a mnemonic image to represent hydrogen. It could be the Sun (which is mostly hydrogen), or maybe water (H20).

The process of creating mnemonic images becomes much easier with practice, so don't be discouraged if it takes you a little effort in the beginning to think of something memorable.

I would imagine a picture of the Sun at location #1.

Second Location

The second location is the ledge next to the stairs. The second element is helium. Imagine a helium balloon tied to the stone at position #2.

Third Location

The third location is on the stairs next to the ledge. The third element is lithium. An image for lithium could be a lithium battery.

You could picture a battery rolling down the stairs.

Fourth Location

The fourth location is on the sloping base of the wall. In this place, we will store a memory that represents beryllium.

The word "beryllium" reminds me of a berry. I would picture a berry being smashed against the wall.

Fifth Location

Memory Palace Locations 5-7.jpg

At the fifth location (the step), we will place an image to represent boron.

"Boron" sounds like "boar", so place an image of a boar there.

Sixth Location

The sixth element is carbon. A good mnemonic image for "carbon" is "car". Imagine a car racing along the ledge.

Seventh Location

The seventh element is nitrogen. An image that sounds like "nitrogen" is "knight". Imagine a jousting knight racing across the step on a horse.

Eighth Location

Memory Palace Locations 8-9.jpg

The eighth element is oxygen. When I think of oxygen, I imagine a space suit. I would picture an astronaut with an oxygen tank floating at position #8.

Ninth Location

Element #9 is fluorine. "Fluorine" sounds like "fluoride". I would imagine cleaning the windows with a toothbrush and toothpaste.

Tenth Location

Memory Palace Location 10.jpg

The tenth element is neon. Picture a neon sign at the foot of the door. Maybe you are smashing a neon sign on the stones there.

Eleventh Location

Memory Palace Locations 11-12.jpg

The eleventh element is sodium. You could picture a salt shaker embedded in the wall or being pushed out of the window.

Twelfth Location

The twelfth element is magnesium. I would imagine a magnesium fire starter in the darkened doorway.

Thirteenth Location

Memory Palace Locations 13-15.jpg

The thirteenth element is aluminium. Imagine aluminium foil wrapped around the plant.

Fourteenth Location

The fourteenth element is silicon. Picture silicon computer chips at position #14.

Fifteenth Location

The fifteenth element is phosphorous. All that a mnemonic image needs to do is get you past the tip of the tongue effect. "Phosphorous" has a similar beginning as "Fozzie Bear". Picturing Fozzie Bear should be enough to help you recall phosphorous, at least after mentally walking through the memory palace a few times.

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Anonymous

The give chart provides Information about the amount of waste produced by company A, company B and company C from 2000 to 2015.

It can be clearly seen that the amount of waste in company C increased while the amount of waste in company A decreased throughout the period.

Looking at the grap in more details, the amount of waste in company A declined moderately to about 9 between 2000 and 2010. There was a slight drop in this at about 8 in 2015. The amount of waste in company B went up sharply from around 8.5 to 10 over the following five years. The company B experienced significant decrease to 3 in 2020.

According the line graph, there was a steep growth in the amount of waste in company C at approximately 6 over a period of 5 years. In the year 2010, company C witnessed  minimal rise at nearly 7. This grew markedly to almost 10 between 2010 to 2015.

Anonymous

The three pie charts below  show the change in annual spending by a particular UK school in 1981,1991 and 2001.


The graphs illustrates the change for  a United Kingdom school  in the three years in 1981, 1982, and 1983.


Overall, we can clearly observe that over the period expenditure most in staff salaries.  However, furniture as well as equipment  increased rapidly  and drops expenditure on things such as books and workers salaries.

In the three years, the greatest expenditure was on staff salaries,but while other workers salaries  say a fall from 28% in 1981 to only 15% in 2001 . In the three years teachers pay demand the biggest  cost  reaching 50% total spending in 1991 and ending 45% in 2001.


Expenditure on resources  like furniture as well as equipment  to  15% by 1981 which increased dramatically to 23 percentage in ending years. Nevertheless, books was 20 proportion in 1991, which significant fall in 2001 from 9 %. The total spending of insurance rose minimally over the period.

Aida Tulegenova

More and more people start to  succumb for drugs. What the causes of this phenomenon? Gave your solutions for this factor.
On the last time in various countries consuming the drugs becoming increasingly common among youth and adults. In this essay I will try to release the causes of this factor and present some remedies. First of all, it should be noted that approximately whole problems are cause by older generation. They convey misbehavior in form of that they experience necessary feelings to consume smoking either drinking that gradually switch to addiction and based on this younger generation see the pattern after which they succumb to try all of these mentioned above stuffs. Second reason may liie on the TV series, particularly in series such friends or euphoria where drugs mentioned not in less measure. Eventually, the plight retain also in the surrounding of humankind that force to them try such things like drugs to be able fight setbacks in their life individuals believe in refusing from them from this way. I consider the way out of these problems especially lies on the family side. They should have sense of responsibility when they show negative impacts for their children, take care about child mental statement to avoid of such events in the future life. second not less paramount solution is preventing the various illustrations about drugs in the movies that deteriorate right minds of individuals. Certainly people can not influence to fix others, however to beginning with they should to rise to the right way themselves after that no one can be the initiator for your businesses. Consequently, I infer humankind have a capacity to changing and transformation of their own life solely by rejection of the destroying things.

Anonymous

New technologies have changed the way children spend their free time . Do you think the advantages of  this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
In recent years, new technologies like smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles have become  ubiquitous , even among children. As a result , the way children spend their leisure time has been drastically altered .While this change has brought about both benefits and drawbacks , I believe that the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages.
On the one hand, it is true that technology has its own downsides when it comes to kids. For instance, excessive screen time has been linked to poor sleep quality, impaired cognitive development , and increased risk of obesity. Children who spend too much time in front of screen may also find it too difficult to engage in other important activities such as sports, socializing with peers , and reading. Moreover, the internet can expose young people to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, and online predators.
On the other hand, there are several advantages to children spending their free time on technology. First and foremost, the use of technology devices can help develop crucial skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and digital literacy . Many educational apps , games , and videos are available , which can enhance learning and encourage creativity. Additionally, technology provides an opportunity for social connection through online gaming communities, video chatting , and social media platforms. In today's world , where virtual communication has become increasingly important , technology enables children to stay in touch  with friends and family who live far away.
In conclusion, while technology has some negative impacts on children's leisure time, its benefits outweigh its drawbacks. As long as parents monitor their children's screen time  and ensure they engage in variety of  activities , technology can be valuable tool for learning and socializing . Therefore , it is essential for parents and educators to embrace new technologies and  encourage their responsible use among children.

TiTi

Nowadays,more and more technical advertisements are spread around every place all over the world. Due to these developed technologies, most of the companies can advertise their products easier than before. I definitely agree to this point that advertising plays as a crucial role in our social lives.

If we were back to 19th century, not many advertisements were not known much and not as popular as in current time. Take us for example,
the advertisements in that time was very simple such as using only  the cartoons charactors,
just encoding the main points for the products and using long theme songs for one advertisements. In the contrary, these ways could not be affected obviously to attract the people's mind to purchase their products. Why it could not be succeeded is that there were few houses owned the televisions for watching such kinds of advertisements.

Compared with such that time, today's system of advertisements are huge different dramatically. For example, the ways of advertisements are not conventional since many websites and social networks are influenced among the people's daliy life.The first point is everything can be chose and purchased smoothly with one touch on screen. Thousands of companies strive to get the high selling targets as much as they can by inserting their ads in social medias, creation their own pages and attracting with more or less amount of giveaways for subscribing their pages.  Furthermore, advertising with the top celebrities is one of the ways to penetrate the marketing network. Seventy percents of people obsess about famous top stars so that the advertisements with them are able to influence the people's mind to buy the products which they advertise.The main point is that we can save our precious time by ordering the things we need from home without wasting time and energy. How splendid it is!

Taking all into account, it is more convinced to be one of the top sellers due to these developed technologies such as social networks. May be it was hard to sell even one thing to the customer.
Nevertheless, there is nothing to worry about the new products to be in the hands of the cosumers.
Through many ages, all of the situations and circumstances are transmitted from time to time.

Anonymous

Today many individuals think that children's parents should put restriction on their watching TV and playing video games routine and they should spend more time for read books. I totally agree with this statement because TV and video games are not very useful for children and books on the other hand are highly important for their study.
To begin with playing video games and watching TV are not useful for children because they put bad affect on eyesight as they spend more time on TV and video games. When they watch TV and playing video games, then they do not take food properly and they do not do study properly.For example, in India most three children come from their school they start watching TV and play video games due to this they lost their interest in study.As a result in coma, they cannot complete their study in good grade and they can decrease their eyesight and cannot do work properly in the future.
However, these days books are provide more knowledge to children or any person. Books are very beneficial for children because books are decrease stress and gain knowledge of children. Many type of books such as:. Poetry books, comic books, knowledgeable books, and scientific books are available in the market or libraries . For example, in the foreign country, some children gave preference to read books,they are get knowledge and start their big business in teenage and early settled in their life. Resultantly coma, reading books are very knowledgeable rather than watching TV and playing video games because books provide a discipline and knowledge to children.
In conclusion, children should read books rather than watching TV and playing video games because reading books, give more knowledge to children and watching TV and playing video games are not useful, these waste their precious time. So they can't achieve their goal in their life. If children spend more time on watching TV and playing video games, parents should prevent from this bad habit.

Anonymous

nowadays, children spend their most of time for playing games and no enough time for physical activitiesCurrently, most of the children’s spending thier time in video play on mobile devices and also playing game on computers, because new generation, nowadays they interest in mobile games and aslo playing movies on tv its is not essential for students, so i disagree with that. on the other hand. students who spend their time on physical activities like they playing games on outside and they are mentally and physically fit because, physically activity is more better then spending time on mobile devices.
so,i disagree with that. In my opinion,children  spend thier time in physical activities,moreover when they most of time in physical activities they are fully fit and thier health is aslo good.

Tisha Modi

As we know that, technology has increasing day by day and it has made our life too much easier and comfortable. However, many researchers says that in future all transportation vehicles will be automatic  drive and when travelling inside these only passengers without driver. According to me, I think it has some cons and some pros so that before commitment on my opinion I will explain my thought in this essay.

First of all, driverless travelling is a good idea because people  can easily reach on their destination without driving and they don’t have trouble in future. Moreover, nowadays many people used to cars, truck and public transportation like bus, so that traffic has also increased and people stuck in traffic jam. In this situation people have to face many difficulties while driving these vehicles but when it will become a driverless people will seat inside car and enjoy with friends and family and they also will not feel bored. 

On the other side, it has many drawbacks for human beings such as, many people not interested in this offer because they are not take any risk while travelling in car, truck or buses without driver. Automatic transportation will become riskier for us especially for youngsters. They like to drive faster and with automatic  they will want to travelling like a flying. In addition, In my country, many individuals earn money on the basis driving. Therefore, if it become driverless they lost their earring platform.

In conclusion, I believe that it’s disadvantage of driverless vehicles outweigh the advantages because it’s become a riskier and people have to chances to lost their job as a driver.

Gurman

In this contemporary epoch, it is vehemently true that the extreme amount of traffic have been created difficulties in not only few cities but in globe. The impending paragraphs intends to give a brief explanation of notions along with my personal whim.

Commencing with the paragraph, it reckons that due to extreme traffic jam the utter hustle and bustle have been created on paths. Ironically, it causes a lot of pollution in all over world. Firstly, a huge proportion of chronic disease have became a part of this reason. For instance, health organization inculcate that 85% of fetal disease are occuring due to the pollution cause by traffic. Moreover, accidents is the second major hardship for citizens. There are countless individuals who have lost there kith and kins in road accidents. However, most of the cases happens only because of the huge disturbance or traffic on the main roads and highways.

To conclude, it is a vital problem for all over world . So, individuals should be cooperative and should also give their support in controlling it. In addition to it, if more quicker Government will take these initiative steps than more rapidly the problems and hardships faced by traffic jam will fade.

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