This hack will help you memorise almost anything | WIRED Explains
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis explains how he used a Memory Palace to memorise 10,000 digits of pi, the order of more than nine shuffled decks of cards and lists of hundreds of names after only hearing them once.
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I invented this on my own when I was 19 or 20. But just the associated image part. "Storing" the images somewhere makes perfect sense to me!! Wow!
Also got that idea when I was 14. I was even ambitious enough to impress my class-mates with 57 digits of pi. At 16 I learned the first 100 digits and now with 19 I haven't pushed further but still passively learned the next 11 digits.
@@sonicmaths8285 wow! You are so much smarter than me. Didn't know what to do with it.
"I have a photographic memory!"..........."I need photographs of everything, just to remember them!"
Okay..so what you did, was take something complex that i always had done, never thought of, explain in such a simple way, that it confused me so much so, that i couldn't even get one thought out, until Mr. Dellis descriped his thought process of the houses and map that he used to memorize things, that is where I understood it perfectly and thought to myself: "Well that is actually quiet easy, but takes a lot of energy and time" Because i cannot think in words, all i see are complete detailed images and they cost a lot of energy over the day. The problem with Nelson Dellis and people like me is that we just cannot explain things, that is sadly a treat that most people give it up for it and are better with words than pictures. While i see faces and details, my girlfriend actually cannot, but her memory of numbers, words and others are 10 times better and faster than mine, while i need to produce imagines for them, she doesn't. Instead of seing the numbers, i see a sheet of paper, details and forget the numbers most of the time for the hotel room, while she takes a look and memorizes it until next week.
I met Dr Julia Shaw in 2017 and she gave me her memory book and signed it. I never read it, but I still have it. Once I finish traveling next month, I should start reading it!
i Have to know... did you ever read it?
New subscriber. Knowledge gives me a natural beautiful high. Everything one sees or here is not necessarily true, I only love correct knowledge no lies.I'm so grateful.🙏🏿🙏🏽👌🏾Amen 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Plot twist: he tattooed the numbers under his eye lid
😂😂😂😂
Just wondering, why would anyone need so much memory ?
Only filling our brain with too much data won't make us go anywhere, right ? Not unless we know, how to potentially utilize them. Is there any way by which I can boost my creativity & imagination with things I already know.
Great vids... I am starting my palace now
How is it?
@@kinarast so far so good. Takes a little bit of practice
Can also use the moon or constellations, but not everyone has a mindseye.
"This is the ritual to lead you on"
Amazing !!
Very interesting clip ♥♥! As a fellow TH-camr, I am on the lookout for new ideas! Good Job!
I prefer to calculate pi in my head AS I recite it. Memorization seems like cheating!
I am kind of confused...how does memorizing that person in an Iron Man suit represent a set of numbers?
Major system
You are associating a chunk of information with a symbol. The idea is once you have anchored the information to the symbol you can think of the symbol and remember the information you "stored" there.
@@JuanMirelez Thank you! for such a short AND clear explanation. I have never understood memory palaces until just now. This ADhD gal just got it. Finally. 🙄
As Victor states below, the Major System assigns a consonant sound to a number. For example, r=4, n=2, m=3, n=2. Iron man would be 4232. Everybody uses slightly different imagery to personalize it though, and if he puts someone inside the suit, then he can add their name as well to save space.
I am a hoarder and use this method but sometimes when I cant find something my brain actually starts hurting. Atm I cant find a bag of 7 boxes of hair extensions and I'm stuck on two images that won't move on to the next image of where I left them. The more I try to remember the more my head hurts
What about trying to remember life experiences? I have a huge hole where there should be a decade of memories from childhood, possibly locked away due to trauma. How does one recall these lost memories?
with a therapist
Lord durdle thank you, 😀I have done that in the past it was somewhat stressful ( flashbacks etc). I was thinking how I could recall memories myself. Just threw the question out there in case someone had a technique worth trying. 😀 Thanks for your reply.
Why are you trying to remember those things that will trouble you? Trust your brain, move on.
Skill Builder that is a good point. I’m not trying to remember the bad incidents, just wanting to recall lost time and memories in general. It is not about self torture just wanting to remember the (good) lost memories. 😌
Exadoor Rising123 I hope you find the good stuff.
I already forgot what the video was about
first step is lot like acronyms
More difficult in practice than saying these things.
Who is the middle guy in the homepage banner ？Why put his picture on it?
Can we memory anything with the technique mind palace
3.141592653589793238.... etc. :D
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How does this help me find my tv remote?
Not applicable to everyone. Lucky of him to be able to do this to himself..
When I heard it was Julia Shaw reading my ears perked up... Id read her book!... that never happens
came here from a video about aphantasia - whiiiiiiiiiich makes this pointless/ quite difficult
You’re out of luck doing this if you have aphantasia I suppose.
People with aphantasia can still do it just using different senses and lots of people who think they have aphantasia actually don't and just never have practiced seeing visual images and convinced themselves they have aphantasia by one diagram of "picture this apple.. is it red?"
Small problem... what if you have aphantasia?
I believe people with aphantasia need to draw out the memory palace with the locations numbered then store the information in a conceptual type of way. Also if you can use other senses other than visual to encode information that is helpful. Some people can also train to obtain phantasia.
Practice .... just saved you 8 minutes. Thank me later, if you remember.
Practice what?
That's weird? In my memory palace I have some weird guy named Sam lying on the floor as soon as a open the door
What if I have aphantasia? lol
Oh?!
@@exadoorrising1239 aphantasia means you cannot see images throughout your minds eye. If u close ur eyes it's complete blackness
sherlock holmes
Won't you mix it up . I mix it up ....
Lol no his brain is different than ours. You can't include double the amount of information as a representation to remember the original for the typical person
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This is innate in a select few humans and not something you can easily teach someone. This person's brain is wired in such a fashion that to him it is logic. For me? Simply listening to this makes me burn a brain fuse. But we are all good at something that others aren't.
Loci = "lokai"? my ears started to bleed, It's loci (c as Calcium, i as idiot)
First of all, "calcium" has two C's and "idiot" has two I's, which are all pronounced differently. Was that a joke?
Despite your ambiguous examples I assume you're attempting to correct the video's "lo-kai" pronunciation to the more common English "lo-sai". Both are technically incorrect in Latin, although yours would be more consistent with and accepted in modern English.
Latin does not have a soft C sound, so in Latin all C's are pronounced like K's. The correct pronunciation of loci is "lo-kee", like Thor's brother Loki.
Yes, by this rule it also means that circus should be pronounced "keer-kus" and Caesar's name was actually "kai-sar". I obviously would not insist on saying them that way in modern conversation. But I do think it's helpful to know the correct historical pronunciation.
The techniques of memory association are in a very confused state of mega-misattribution because of the miuse of hyperbole to set an illusory reference frame not supported.., usually totally in contradiction, to Actuality. Taking notes with the technology and developments of Science are stronly reccomended practice, and a restructure of teaching-learning Curricula in consequence of the need to clean up the mess of silly fantasy is an imperitive.
I was just going to say that!!
Doesn't work, requires an insane amount of creativity on the memorizer's part. I doubt the person in this video used it to memorize random digits like PI.
It does work but theres genuinely some people who remember differently and cant picture things as easily. Weirdly people like this tend to have better natural memory
it works, it takes time and effort just like anything else. You have to build a repository of memory palaces and characters but the results are pretty outstanding. Also using all 5 senses to create the scene makes it memorable even if the person can only do it conceptually.