Jordan Peterson Shares a Simple Technique He Uses to Memorize Anything
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- There is this technique called Memory Castle that people have used for centuries to remember things, and so what you do is, you sit and you imagine a, might be a place that you know, like a geographic place, a house. And then you could place the things that you remember, imagine that you walked through the house, you could place the things you want to remember at different locations in the house. But you have to turn what you're remembering into an image. And then you could walk through the house and you could lift things up and find what it is that you're trying to remember. And so, that's how I remember things. And I forget a lot of what I read, a tremendous amount of what I read. But now and then something pops up and it sticks, you know?
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I tried this and I wound up forgetting the layout of my memory palace and got lost in there for 3 days
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It's ok bruh we can't all be jp.
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I lost 11 years as I stored it there 😔
Next time I’ll pack a lunch box before I go into my castle.
I'm still waiting for my brain to approve the building of this house, let alone the mortgage
Bureaucratic brain?
@@jakovbegovic9644 lmao. probably like the movie inside out with lil characters. "I wonder what is going in their head" lol
I'm sure you have to get permits approved
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I did this after I had a major accident. Me and my best friend where struck by a truck. Since then my memory is foggy. I got examined few years after it by a doctor and explained my memory problems. The doctor was amazed by my memory even though I just lost most of mine within seconds. All I did was imagine a window with a shelf and I decorated both with things the doctors asked me to remember. To this day I cannot remember important things or dates but ask me to remember details, I'll store them on my shelf visually
how do I achieve this without getting into an accident
@@inkz3520 same question
@@inkz3520do what she does - minus the getting into an accident part
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I can't even remember where I put my keys in my real house, much less my imaginary castle!
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First thing I thought of hahah. Spot on.
You can use real places. They work better actually and that’s what’s reccommended by experts.
The key is to use your real house. Because you know your house like the back of your hand. And in every room choose 10 items and label them one through 10. And you place what you want to remember on each item
@@dolo6149 doesn't that get confusing the more you learn?
If anybody's interested, this technique was pioneered by Giordano Bruno generally referred to it as the garden of memory.
He was many things but I'd say he was primarily a hermeticist (an interesting rabbit hole), but he traveled around the royal courts of Europe amazing everyone with his incredible feats of mnemonics (the scientific practice of memorization).
He was also the guy that was vying against Galileo for the position of mathematics professor at one of the oldest universities in Europe, the University of Padua (Venice).
Thanks for the little synopsis
Interesting stuff
The internet/world needs more people like yourself
@@shaneevans978 thank you, that means alot. Most of the time people seem totally disinterested
@@muddbear6410 Oh wow, already knew of memory palace stuff and have been meaning to read the hermetic tradition, but I didn't realize he engaged with memory practices like that. Very interesting, I'll have to bump it up on my reading list, thanks.
That's also taught in Harry Loraynes' the memory book
This technique was discussed extensively in the book "Moonwalking With Einstein". Its written by a journalist who ends up covering a memory competition, decides he wants to compete on day, and ends up being one of the best in the world. All the while discussing the history memorization techniques and his path to learning modern techniques from other top memory competitors. Super cool
Yeah I read that book memory palaces work it's just that they take effort and your lazy.
First I would recommended starting with like a 3 memory palaces.
Number 1 is my house
Number two is idk my school it's quite big so I could probs create 3 to 4 palaces just from that gaint
The book doesn’t really go into huge detail on how to delete or erase memory palaces. It goes into the functionality but I never found in the book of what happens when you run out of memory palaces? How do you erase old ones? That’s my main concern because I don’t want to use all of my personal memories and have to blend them with numbers and symbols for math and technical studies lol
@@Alex-ns6hj Antony Metivier (look him up, he's great memory teacher) said that since our brains Are visually oriented and that all of us have seen so many places, we basically cannot run out of places in our lifetimes. Also I have seen some memory experts going on real estate sites and looking and walk-thoughs of apartments and using them as memory palaces. So if you learn how to use them correctly you should never run out of mental space for them.
I have 50 memory palaces and over 1300 individual locations or “stations”. My best accomplishment is memorizing 478/480 random digits in 1 hour.
Top memory competitors can memorize 50 random words in 50 seconds and 80 random number digits in 12 seconds.
100% of memory competitors use memory palace.
If its true thats awesome
Sounds suspect tbh 😏🧢
@@katielowen it’s a whole rabbit hole. Look up “international memory championship”
How do you maintainin your brain or you do something something special?
That's crazy, how did you do that?
It's like when a place, a room, or a smell reminds you of someone. But here, you do it on purpose
I just forget things, the new things just bump off some older useless memories. Learning new stuff is great but now I can't remember where I am
Ugh. I despise how accurate this is.
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There with ya
A better technique than memory palace is associating things together in really weird ways. Like if I were to remember someone’s birthday and it was today (April 5) I would store a mental image of them with a clown mask (April 1) and as one of those half-people half-unicorn things (4 legs. April 1 + 4 = April 5, their birthday). We tend to forget the boring stuff so be weird and be creative. This technique got me through an engineering degree, not because I’m smart; I just can remember anything. Good luck!
Yes!! I used this method for anatomy and physiology haha. I made the WEIRDEST connections and mnemonics, but it worked wonderfully
Yes, but you can also use that in your memory palaces, you place the bizarre images in specific parts of your palace, that's the optimal way, also you can assign order in the room you're using so you can memorize lists in the right order with little or no effort, it's truly magical, it should be taught in schools on the first years, we would have a different world
@@lucianoinso I’ve recently tried this due to the video but I’m having trouble. How do you do it successfully?
I do this all the time since memory palace isn't working from me
@@arthurmiranda3804what parts are you having issues with?
I've been trying to simulate some kind of memory organizer in my head but I haven't thought about this method. Thank you!
My memory castle is like Mario 64 with painting of moments in my life that I can go into and be nostalgic or in order to keep from making the same mistake twice.
Hahaha im just starting this technique and I thought that the Mario 64 was the perfect place haha
The Greek poet, Simonides of Ceos, invented the method around 500 BC.
It is quite interesting that this video is cut out to make it look like Jordan actually uses the memory castle. In the full video, that is not what he said. He uses a different method.
In the video, Jordan said that he has a broad theory that he has been working on for a long time, and he plugs anything he reads into that broad theory. And because he knows the full outline of that theory, he can lay out fully, and it would take about 50 hours to fully lay it out. That is how he remembers what he reads. In that theory of his, everything is connected in some way.
The method mentioned in this short was a method that he says "has been used by many people for centuries" not him.
I learned that in the 1980s. The best one was placing objects on your hood and memorize them as you drive. It worked
The perfect memory technique, is if you connect the things you learn to your overall world view
i get you but could you elaborate?
no, that’s actually for understanding. being able to draw out the dots before connecting them helps you get an understanding of what ur learning. to actually retain the info, this technique would be better than js trying to memorize words, but it won’t do much longterm
Not if you need to give a speech and broach certain topics in order, remember a phone number, latin names for a test, etc. Memory techniques are like a technical skill rather than a way to relate concepts.
Lost my memory house a few months ago to a fire. I forgot how to do everything, had to start from scratch. I’ve currently got a memory apartment, should be getting a townhouse soon if I keep up this trajectory.
I hope you’ve been able to build a fire-resistant house by now…..
And if not, I choose to believe that time is coming!
it's called memory palace*, or method of loci
The problem with this is when I think of a place it always turns into my childhood home and I don’t want to walk through it I want to walk away from it so I just use filing cabinets my memories are file room in the office building of my mind. It is all departmentalized throughout the building my brain is a business and I’m not going to run it into the ground like the sheeple.
Holy shit I’m doing this for like a month now. Sometime I’m going back like 50 years and I can see everything , try it it’s fun
Going back 50 years?
@Element good for you?
@@lukeyvee you're weird?
I use a similar technique. If I focus particularly on something with a second look and make myself a mental note I seem to retain it.
FYI: This is also called the method of "loci", or location.
He must have forgot that 😂
Im 21 but I can exactly recall most of the homes I’ve lived in as a child, and the places I’ve been , the things around the house or school or certain place , and smells, I can also recall or picture them in different times through out the day, even how different it was to be at that place on a Monday compared to Saturday, I can also picture them how light or dim the place looked during different weather, I can also walk around the areas surrounding the place, even schools I can remember, the teacher, the students, their voices, and just like the old homes I lived in, I can picture them in that same manner. I can take a walk around my town too in my brain without going out, I can also vividly make a movie in my head when I read something, or books or audiobooks. I actually had no idea that’s what it was, I’ve been looking for a word that matches that sort of thinking but nothing, until now I guess. And sometimes I also do that when I try to remember where I left something, but for that I have to close my eyes to remember. When it comes to remembering my 5th grade elementary classroom or school, or the apartment I used to live in when I was 9 I can easily picture that without closing my eyes at this point, in fact I’m doing that right now as I typed this. 😂
Edit: sorry for the long rant
how can I memory castle my biochemistry class
If anyone is interested in doing this, the “Memory Book” by Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas goes into detail on how to use this and other mnemonic techniques. I myself have used these techniques to ace my final with less than 2 hours of studying.
ahhh he's talking about memory palace or method of loci :) but that is excellent method for remembering names, lists, or scripts/lines something in sequence but not for dates
The principle is just stick your new information to old information that you already know
I have been trying different techniques for memorization. This memory palace does not work for several reasons:
1: It is only useful when you intend to memorize a list of words, names, places, etc temporarily. You will later forget them.
2: It does not work in descriptive stuff.
3: When you want to find the answer to your question, you have to always start with imagination from the beginning
I do something similar to this unconsciously. When I’m trying to memorise something, I look at any object near me and whenever I see that object I remember what I was trying to memorise .
I think a big part of reading is knowing that a lot if not most of what you read will retain
I genuinely thought I was the only one who forgets what they read.
I could read a book and remember the things I read, but ask me about it two weeks later and I would not be able to tell you a damn thing 😅
One of the main themes of the Dune series that stuck with me is how the Benne Gesserit implanted religions in so many planets across the universe only to manipulate and enslave humanity. Makes me question if our own religions were the result of another alien civilization's plot to control and breed us through eons for a specific purpose yet unknown to us.
Historically, religion and politics have only served to control and enslave us by forcing us to accept kings as emmissaries of God. This was the case for thousands of years and across different empires, such as the Egyptian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire etc.
That’s fine and dandy for those that can actually see things in their head when they try to imagine. I have appetasia and I can’t see images in my head.
I have a terrible time remembering faces or names unless there is repetition. I have to really know someone or meet them multiple times to recognize them and speak their name out loud three times to remember. I am terrible with directions, unless I drive the route at least three times for anything complicated. Sometimes more. So it’s probably that my short term memory just sucks a lot of the time unless it’s a topic and I’m interested. Because I can’t visually recall anything. It’s all conceptual and specific. So the things I remember, and put into my long term memory. Those things stick well. Hands on stuff in general, I do it three times and I know it forever it seems.
My auditory memory is also way better and that’s likely because I can sometimes hear my memories or songs in my head.
I’m fine with reading comprehension, names become repetitive. Remembering a story from a book is like a memory to me. I can’t see anything. But I know what’s there and going on. I might not recall colors unless it’s significant, but all the other facts are just there.
So much of the time I’ll know things, really well, but describing that to other people is another story if it’s something very visual. I’d be the worst witness for a police sketch.
I also can’t visualize to that extent and I don’t even understand, are they using it to store main ideas from a book?
I do this but I put words on my hands or with things right in front of me. It’s hard to visualize my house accurately. Instead I just visually place words or definitions on things I can see at my desk and test my self. Let me know if anyone uses this method and if it worked for you what I described.
I use memory castle but instead of calling it memory castle I call it "trigger memories." It's when you place a memory in a random item and when you go by in your day you will realize you forgot what you were trying to remember but when someone says the item or you see it you can remember what you forgot.
The Memory castle is similar to what you do, but instead of people reminding you of the object. You will instead visualize your room/location and see your “Trigger object.” (I.e you remember the room where your “trigger” is. So it's more in your control)
@jordanBooh how can you possibly remember a trigger item when you dont remember it to begin with?
Unless you visualize your room continuously, there isn't much need for a reminder, If you won't forget it in the first place.
@@demonloot6712 Yeah, I’ve always had that issue too. Currently, I'm reading Moon Walking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. So far, he talks about making those objects Exaggerated and symbolic.
(e.g., I need to buy six red wine bottles and three pairs of socks for my grocery list.)
So I'll picture walking into my home.
And see 6 Talking Red Wines gambling with three pairs of socks (as chips). I see the bottles having some funny banter with each other)
It's a bizarre scenario, but I won't forget what's on my list. I haven't finished the book yet, but so far, it's a good read. I'd check it out if you're interested.
This is called the Method of Loci and I've used it my entire life! You can use any object and tie the idea to it. It's quite amazing
Its been 2 weeks
Bet you can't find the keys to your castle!
I didn’t even know this was a thing but I’ve already been doing it
It’s reassuring that Dr Peterson also forgets the majority of what he reads 👍🏼
I naturally do this and I have an above average genius IQ. I don't understand why my brain naturally makes markers and I can vividly imagine anything to recall in a 3d reality. It's like having a 360 degree 3d map for memories and my brain doesn't forget what I experience because my brain stores everything in detailed images in folders in my mind that I can sift through. Reading is like watching a movie for me so my brain makes markers throughout the book so I can come back to finish the story. I don't need a book mark because I can remember years later what page I last was reading. Yet I am mentally and physically handicapped. My doctor told me I have savant syndrome and autism. I can draw anything with any tool that can make marks like a pencil pen paint charcoal exc... and I can sculpt anything from memory. I do know my memory is connected to my ability to draw and sculpt. I'm like a 3d printer because my brain measures and collects the information and my muscles are capable of recalling the data and I can use it to make it real for everyone else by drawing or sculpting it.
So I thought this technique was considered "memory journey," but is the main difference that "memory castle" involves visualization instead of actually, physically placing objects/cues in the house? Like that this version requires visualizing that we placed stuff around to create mental associations but without physically doing it?
Is this where I go to when I have the reoccuring dream where I am at a house in this dream. One room will be room in one of my childhood homes. One room will be a room in a grandparents house. One room will be a class room from grade school. The house must be gigantic but you never feel like it is in the dream.
Also, I often dream I am in an old victorian house with all these staircases and balconies, but I don't think I have ever actually been in a house like this. The style of the house my change from dream to dream like sometimes the walls are white with hardwood floors and sometimes there is wood panneling on the walls and that old forrest green carpet on the floors. I dont know why I have these dreams, but have had them off and on my whole life.
As a hypnotherapist, using this tool in assisting others proves extremely beneficial when combining with the subconscious levels of memory.
I would like to ad an especific comment related to this technic wich when draw from simple pictures structured as story can becomes easy to chronologically remember the story it self with all the details but rather just picking up random objects, conditions or actions it self nothing can be better ther pure dream architecture itself.... It cam goes for years.. Once yoi create an environment from you unconsciously dreams and right after aweking you try to persue all the detail at that dream such as building, action, details.. All those under a controlled environment and emotional affect can never be forgotten
I used this to write my best poems, didn't know it was “a real thing.”
A complex filing system for your mind that reyls on your ability to visualize it in your own mind. Some people will be much better at this then others.
my dad taught me and my siblings this when we were really little and my two younger brothers have memorized all of the presidents with the year they were elected and other stuff like that
I never knew people could actually visualize like this
4 month update: Just wanted to let you know I now have an entire city going, only problem is I’m finding myself clocking in more hours on my virtual city than my job. Any advice?
Can you guide me how and where to start! I'm kind of confused
It does work if you draw out the layout of your house in real life and actually write out the stuff you want to remember
I do this but I do this literally not metaphorically.
I keep mementos of personal significance around my house and they really help sort through ALL the memories of my entire life and I mean shit you haven't thought of in years but because you have that memento you were able to remember it.
If you ask me to remember when we went to the beach 5 years ago, I will only remember very vague info. But if you trigger my memory and say “remember playing cards outside with so and so and we were listening to this music and so and so did this”, I will recall that memory and other details about it.
I want to be able to recall without being triggered, I wonder if this is applicable.
Because if this happens with the beach, imagine what happens with my childhood? Did something happen that I am just waiting for a trigger to remember an important event that shaped who I am?
Anyone who does this castle thing, can you describe an example of how to do it? I have poor memory and it’s frankly debilitating at times.
I think part of it is dissociation, but then again, if I can remember after being triggered, did I ever forget? Did I always remember? If I didn’t forget, why can’t I call it to mind without help?
put what you wanna remember at different place in a house. I placed a quantum physics idea overthere, now it's either in in or not in it.
That’s funny
Yes I read about this in college. I used it, and it may require bit more brain power, but it really is effective. Thank you Dr. Petersen for reminding me. I have severe complex trauma and it's fried my short term memory. Memory Castle good stuff!!
This clearly explains why he wants you to put your room/house in order, it's a familiar place and you can use it for this techinque if in order.
Also why he often speaks with eyes closed.
Used this to remember pi to 100 digits in less than an hour. Not so great for long term use but perfect for short term use (unless you're willing to link the place to a memory forever)
Stopping alcohol completely helped me remember things better in a weird way. I remember details for much longer, but I still forget appointments, though warning flashes occur more often (you know like a sudden scare you get something's wrong and you start to think I need to be somewhere this week).
But the details can be astounding, but it's not that you can bring everything back at a whim, it needs a precursor. But for instances when someone goes, he how did that match half a year go I can very well tell them who played, who scored, which room we dressed, who drove, what we did afterwards and then a whole reviving of that day happens.
Very remarkable, that didn't happen as often when a still drank alcohol in the weekends
I know this methodology as a ‘Mental Palace’. Sherlock Holmes utilizes it in the BBC tele series.
It’s based off the Ancient Greek _‘method of loci’_ ; a psychic mnemonic device for utilising familiar locations for intentional learning & memorisation.
This takes spinning objects to a whole new level
He read this in “Moonwalking with Einstein” on one my favorite books 📚
Wasn't there a story about a banquet in the times of the great Greek philosopers, and it was hit by an earthquake, and a survivor was able to remember recall everyone's position at the table using this method?
I can walk pretty much anywhere with my eyes closed, I can still see everything.
When I took those 3 tablets I could see like day in the pitch dark. I felt like I was being tested to become someone
I was being turned up by a giant knob in the sky but in waves because it could have blown my heart,they said. My adrenaline was rocketing like no other. I felt like I could stop a train dead stop, I thought that they were angel dust but they were only hemp capsules
I got pretty stoned off them.
I also had to jump, it's all in timing but if I did I would have been able to pass through solid objects,walls etc and I would have been able to fly and run 100 kph.
I kept 2/3 tablets for when I was going up and see derwood and the anthill mob but there's only one problem, I cannot start,they have to. That's the sacred rule, it's said that unless thou kick your foot on a stone. I would rather walk away from a fight unless they attack then you have to defend yourself. If it's a woman I won't hit them.
I just really hate people who raise their voice I don't like authority they are like liars
If Zoro would use this technique then he could fing new houses and new answers every day😊😂
It's working for me :)
I'm imagining a Art gallery where I go to each art one by one and art talks to me.
I was stuck in the house for 3 years I came out of coma just now
I tried this but got lost on the way to the memory castle...
everyone might say this as a technique they apply, but this is what i spam ever since i grow therefore a built in/ in born thing for me
I’m a very internally visual person. If I can recall the spatial location then I can remember the parts VERY easily
This works takes longer because you have to construct everything but it works
Shorts cannot be saved?
I remember the house but no idea where I left the things I am trying to remember, and I constantly get distracted by other memories I don’t need.
I do this but not to remember but to go there
I use familiar places from my childhood neighborhood
You haven't seen how messy my house is. No wonder I can't remember things.
It's the adhd. Clean your house and make your bed
@@funkymonkey8308 shut up...you are not my mom! 😂
Its true. I do it! It does work.
Without ever hearing about this I used to have my memories in a grid (think filing cabinets about 10 ft by 10 ft) and once I did a bunch of shrooms it was all gone lmao
Haha that sounds something shrooms would do..😂
How does one with aphantasia ,not able to visualize in the minds eye apply this technique?
The beauty of creating cognitive cues. It’s even better if you have preexisting cues
Dr Peterson is referring to memory mnemonics. Authors who can teach you about this: Harry Lorraine / Dominic O'Brien.
Mine is a tree. Infinite branches and leaves. The branches and leaves fall but are replaced with stronger branches and leafs.
I unknowingly am following this technique from 10 years
said by a 9 year old
"The war is on, John!"
Derren brown does this extremely well.
Damn. I did this because it was in Sherlock but I didn't think anybody else actually did. Guess JP does too
I remember things but sometimes I wonder how deja vu works
I studied like this for my exam
Now I have made a whole universe 😅
I forgot where i put my memory key of my castle. Now all memories are trapt
It's called matching the soft wire with the hard wire.
I do this it works.
The idea there is too true. I didn't use a house but I learned to read sheet music by pretending I was at a zoo in a way. I didn't actually picture a.zoo but I used different animals for the notes and when I started sight reading I just said in my head what words I had come up with for the letter names. It was rough of course but it did the job. I tried to make them rhyme too, so it was funny thinking back on it playing classical pieces while simultaneously thinking of sharp dogs and flat frogs riding bats and cats. You get to a point where its not necessary anymore but if you want to memorize something fast, use association. But memorization is a very different process than learning, learning is almost always a slow and tedious process.
Sherlock Holmes, Benedict tenderbatch, used in an episode going to his memory castle.
Wow I’ve been doing that since my early twenties, even mediate and doing it.
St. Teresa of Avila is considered one of the first Drs. of the Catholic Church.
Imagine you just finished storing your important memories in a high rise building and then the city just for some legit reasons decide to bulldoze the building 😂😂.
That's the kind of stuff that happens when I try these kind of techniques 😅. The door sticks so I have to remove it, plane it, rehang it. Nice door, good job! What was I trying to remember again?
The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila first published in 1588
My son can solve 60 Rubick cubes blindfolded using this technique. It takes practice.
The term for this in psychology is the “method of loci” technique
What if the house gets full
What if I lost my imaginary house key or I can’t pay rent anymore
Omgggggggg....
I can't remember where things are IN MY OWN HOUSE 😪
Dream catcher incase you wanna see a visual example of this