How I memorized an entire chapter from “Moby Dick”

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    I always thought I was born with a bad memory. I could never remember multiplication tables, I’m so bad with names, and I honestly couldn’t tell you what I ate for lunch two days ago. Yet I found a way to memorize an entire chapter of Moby Dick in less than four days. It turns out I was going about memorizing things all wrong.
    The way most people are taught to memorize is by making flash cards and just repeating the information over and over again until it sticks. This is terribly ineffective, really frustrating, and the reason nobody can tell you what 8 times 12 is.
    A much better technique is the “memory palace,” an idea that Joshua Foer explores in his book Moonwalking With Einstein. A memory palace is a mnemonic technique that allows you to more easily memorize information by creating corresponding visual images that you mentally place along a path in a familiar location.
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  • @The6thDimensional
    @The6thDimensional 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3995

    Too bad i won't remember this video later on

    • @sandmastermaster
      @sandmastermaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Not A Potato tf are you then??

    • @Will-np8gg
      @Will-np8gg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      so add it to your watch later thing like i did

    • @sandmastermaster
      @sandmastermaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      william Murdoch dude it's a joke.

    • @sandmastermaster
      @sandmastermaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      william Murdoch alright. You were just trying to help.

    • @nerdowlwho
      @nerdowlwho 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not A Potato

  • @nebbykoo
    @nebbykoo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1880

    I memorized 65 lines of The Iliad in Greek for a test using this method. i did it in 6 hours, got the highest score on the test. So this works.

    • @ThuyNguyen-rz5gy
      @ThuyNguyen-rz5gy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      nebbykoo then what? can you recite them now?

    • @pietrospellecchia4720
      @pietrospellecchia4720 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I only know one of the first words (if not the first, I don't know) which is "Menin" that means "anger" and it is also the subject of the Iliad: Achilles's anger ;)

    • @Destiny8381
      @Destiny8381 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      magic

    • @LohJiaHung
      @LohJiaHung 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I did this for parts of Julius Caesar and it's been a long ass time but I can remember it clearly.

    • @Ronnie7X
      @Ronnie7X 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Thuy Nguyen
      I tried method too and it worked on my test.
      No I can't recite what I have learned now because I ionically have forgotten it.
      The reason being is that I stopped re-visiting the memory palaces I made which were made specifically for the test.
      I'm confident that if the Palaces are revisited regularly they won't be easily forgotten.
      Which would be no where near as difficult as bland rote memorization.

  • @Pumahh
    @Pumahh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2911

    I wish I could remember the entire Bee Movie script

    • @camerons9229
      @camerons9229 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      EdenXIX are you her little...bed bug

    • @spazzmaticus1542
      @spazzmaticus1542 7 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
      Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
      Ooh, black and yellow!
      Let's shake it up a little.

    • @HawkmoonaMatata
      @HawkmoonaMatata 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      According to all known laws of aviation...

    • @claudiadeleon245
      @claudiadeleon245 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      EdenXIX You could watch the movie till you know all the lines? 🙂

    • @meiriversofborg
      @meiriversofborg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      These are winter boots

  • @tsundereshark5945
    @tsundereshark5945 7 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    Guys, he memorized it word for word, that's why it took so long.... What people usually do when employing this technique is creating one or two images per paragraph to remember the main idea, which of course is much, much faster. I don't doubt people who say they've memorized more pages in less time than him, but I highly doubt it was word for word like he did.

    • @Baerock
      @Baerock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not really relevant, in my middle school and highschool years we had to memorize the definitions and explanations word by word, and it too less than 4hrs for like 90% of the subjects

    • @ostrichmaster9814
      @ostrichmaster9814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I can’t read

    • @Badro29
      @Badro29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe he should learn from the people that memorize the most memorized book in the world: the quran. Word by word by Millions from beginning to end

    • @mimilune2746
      @mimilune2746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Badro29 my mom is trying to memorize it and struggling, I was explaining to her this method ans hoping it can help her

  • @xsouleaterx10
    @xsouleaterx10 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1642

    memory palace sounds like something from sherlock

    • @gustavofernandes1370
      @gustavofernandes1370 7 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      The last episode of season 3 of Sherlock talks about it.
      The series "mentalist" teaches it too. I learn it from there.

    • @Elador1000
      @Elador1000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      because it was in Sherlock :D At least in the BBC series.

    • @domyboji
      @domyboji 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      SmartiePants hannibal too 🍽🍽

    • @JuanPablodelaTorre
      @JuanPablodelaTorre 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The memory palace was invented in ancient Greece. Probably by a poet called Simonides. It's not _from_ Sherlock. It is the other way around.

    • @lllmvl
      @lllmvl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      oh my gosh JUST 3 MORE DAYS UNTIL SEASON 4 OF SHERLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! :D
      sorry lol i'm just a little excited

  • @ytubeanon
    @ytubeanon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    I read an interesting book called 'Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering' about the history of memory techniques and the memory championships people compete in. At the end of the book, the irony was noted that, despite winning medals, these people forget the same things in the same amounts in everyday life as the rest of us unless they completely commit to preparing mind palaces in advance for whatever it is they want to remember.

    • @0tek0
      @0tek0 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      No technique is perfect, memory palaces work well for long content that needs to be known by heart and where you have at least some time to remember it. You can see it as a tool, if your exams or work require you to know a lot of stuff by heart (eg. medicine, history) this might be something to think about. But it is also an expensive tool (requires time, effort, repetition, creativity) that's maybe not so useful for other goals, where other tools and mnemonics are more appropriate (or goold old testing yourself). Also, contaminations can occur (you could mix up your palaces or mental images) and remembering is still a long way from understanding & applying.

    • @dmtang01
      @dmtang01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Basically if it works it works. Don't think anything as easy, for that's a true student learner. Right, no technique is perfect.

    • @Marcus-gi4jb
      @Marcus-gi4jb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Boris R. Cuduco Dope 🔥

    • @ostrichmaster9814
      @ostrichmaster9814 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Um I don’t know what u saying me reading is bad so what about donkeys

  • @Crystalleyes321
    @Crystalleyes321 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    This actually works, I basically memorised 5 essays about 1200 words each (all up 6000 words) that were all cemented in my head. Through vigorous repetition it took about 1-2 hours to memorise one essay, and I did this through basically using a section of my house and assigning words to objects (similar to what he did) but more physical. After about a week the 6000 words were all in my head. The great thing about this is, you can pick up from any section of the essay/text without trouble. It helped me SO much in exams, and after the whole experimentation I was absolutely amazed at how much m e m o r y capacity your brain actually has. You can even remember certain things months after you’ve memorised them.

  • @AlexPittiStockMan
    @AlexPittiStockMan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1992

    Memory Palace sounds like a Chinese restaurant

    • @Chungus67
      @Chungus67 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Dude what

    • @b.m.d4771
      @b.m.d4771 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alex Pitti lol

    • @unknow210
      @unknow210 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      good idea, someone should open a Chinese Restaurant with the name Memory Palace

    • @youtubeoffical2460
      @youtubeoffical2460 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alex Pitti follow me on instagram physic21_

    • @AlexPittiStockMan
      @AlexPittiStockMan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ijeoma onyemelukwe uba why?

  • @charleskuhn382
    @charleskuhn382 7 ปีที่แล้ว +570

    "Hack" your memory... Stop using that word!

    • @Cpcheatscpvideosify
      @Cpcheatscpvideosify 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      cravenjooooooooooooo Ed

    • @ryanmurray5973
      @ryanmurray5973 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "I cannot hack my memory. I have no axe!"

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When you tap into your brain's software to unlock functionality a common user wouldn't have, hacking is a pretty good term for it.

    • @salo2377
      @salo2377 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thorr18BEM you have sent a response to almost every comment I've seen

    • @peaceandllov
      @peaceandllov 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thorr18BEM
      It's a worn out term, the person is saying.

  • @youfoundwaldo77
    @youfoundwaldo77 7 ปีที่แล้ว +848

    Was anyone else thinking of Sherlock Holmes

  • @AnuRMusicVideos
    @AnuRMusicVideos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    YES this does work, I used it to memorise all my quotes for essays in English during my final year. Also, in Chemistry class in my final year, I took about 40-50 minutes, using this technique, to remember all the cations and anions we had to memorise, and their charges (eg. Rubidium = Rb+, Nickel = Ni2+, Sulfite = SO32-). There were about 60 of these cations and anions.

    • @stijndebelie2698
      @stijndebelie2698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahah of you have a table of mendeljev this is easy

  • @confucheese
    @confucheese 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The next step up is called "Roman Rooms", essentially you create the location in your head, rather than using a real location, you imagine entirely fictional areas. I use it to solve larger size Rubik's cubes blind folded, (ie. 8x8x8 cubes).

    • @owengraham3211
      @owengraham3211 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Frederick Abel I am looking into beginning blindsolving 3x3x3s. right now, I know LBL and am getting into 45-ish 4LLL. do you have a preferred method? I just started learning about the memorization schemes today. also, do you have any videos that might help me?

    • @youtubeoffical2460
      @youtubeoffical2460 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Frederick Abel follow me on instagram physic21_

    • @kittythecat8298
      @kittythecat8298 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Frederick Abel

    • @kittythecat8298
      @kittythecat8298 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So... a mind palace, right?

    • @confucheese
      @confucheese 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kittythecat No, similar, but different.

  • @georgea.567
    @georgea.567 7 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    He memorized 1 and a half pages not a chapter.

    • @poppysilk365
      @poppysilk365 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      George A. 2:10 is a chapter

    • @butterbunzful
      @butterbunzful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      A chapter is whatever the author says the chapter is.

    • @georgea.567
      @georgea.567 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Natai KO Yeah it's a chapter, but it's a little clickbaity. When you think of a chapter you think like 20 pages.

    • @gingerAV
      @gingerAV 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      small font tho

    • @gingerAV
      @gingerAV 7 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      HE SAID BE COOL
      BE COOL

  • @stoicfloor
    @stoicfloor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    word of advice: remembering everything with memory palace won't help you if you didn't understand the material in the first hand

    • @atomm7316
      @atomm7316 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Dragon377 exactly concept is very important.

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In the first "place"...

    • @tokyomilmil
      @tokyomilmil 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      c'mma in our current time and age if you want to come back to anything immediately,you just look it up on your phone,web or what stored on your personal cloud.
      (but if you're talking about recalling things in your dream,I've got no rebuttal for this LOL)

    • @arminneashrafi2846
      @arminneashrafi2846 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you Christopher.

  • @ReviewTubeChannel
    @ReviewTubeChannel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +496

    3-4h a day for 4 days for 1.5 pages of text?!? Soooo useful...

    • @thermiclance
      @thermiclance 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      ReviewTube well, he did say he had bad memory. For you it might take way less time than him.

    • @awesomeguy9573
      @awesomeguy9573 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ReviewTube FR, I would rather copy the whole chapter over and over again

    • @jacksonreis37
      @jacksonreis37 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ReviewTube exactly what I was thinking

    • @MrVankog
      @MrVankog 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ReviewTube
      You are missing the point. Memory palaces are not meant to be fast. It takes much time to create vivid imagery and virtual links, that's true. The goal of it is to memorize it long term and kind of brand it into your brain. It's not effortless or particular efficient, but effective.

    • @ReviewTubeChannel
      @ReviewTubeChannel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know, but he was using too many places and too many images for not a lot of information, aside from taking a really long time to learn it. All I'm saying is that the video is misleading, like you said, memory palaces should be used to memorize stuff long term and be able to use it whenever and the video presented that amazing learning power as something used to learn 1.5 pages of text in 4 days.

  • @Gregoryzaniz
    @Gregoryzaniz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    I love the Vox staff, they're so adorable

  • @krombopulos_michael
    @krombopulos_michael 7 ปีที่แล้ว +652

    Sorry, but the point was that it was supposed to be efficient. Spending 3-4 hours per day practicing for 4 days does not sound efficient. That sounds like brute force.

    • @dafuzz2405
      @dafuzz2405 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Krombopulos Michael well maybe his example was not the greatest but it has been shown to work in other cases. The point is to link the sequence to a thought that is easy to remember.

    • @BruceLeefromthegrave
      @BruceLeefromthegrave 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Why don't you try it yourself and see if you like the technique or not?

    • @rachels6403
      @rachels6403 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Krombopulos Michael That would be about a half hour per line. That's pretty good, considering how complicated each sentence was.

    • @harperl2
      @harperl2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Scratchyone Scratchyone Would this be a good way to learn basics for another language? I've always been bad in classes so I never learn enough

    • @rachels6403
      @rachels6403 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To be honest I'm not sure, since I haven't tried it yet, but since you use pictures I would assume you could print out the pictures that symbolize the words. You could maybe even use objects in your home instead of pictures

  • @LakesReptiles
    @LakesReptiles 7 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Anyone thinking of the mind palace from Sherlock?

  • @poohoff
    @poohoff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Ammm.. it would take me two hours to memorize that chapter without any palaces.

    • @judesTube
      @judesTube 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You must be a real genius

    • @poohoff
      @poohoff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Phoenixpi Just like all my classmates and pretty much every person I know.

    • @judesTube
      @judesTube 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      poohoff Are you being sarcastic?

    • @poohoff
      @poohoff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No, I'm not. It took the guy four days to memorize 38 sentences. Back in middle school we had to learn and recite poems of that length on a regular basis, and of course it'd always be left for the night before.

    • @caligulaincarnate
      @caligulaincarnate 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You know poems are similar to songs in that they have a rhythm, or you can easily give it one, which can definitely make it easier to remember that as opposed to a novel or a chapter. Yeah, he used it to remember a page of text, but you gotta start somewhere if it's something new to you, like he said was new to him. And everyone has different methods to remember things as well as different abilities to retain information, so perhaps this doesn't apply to you, but I'm glad you let everyone know you're better than him.

  • @IgnatRemizov
    @IgnatRemizov 7 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    There's a memory championship? I never knew!

  • @CptnJCFG
    @CptnJCFG 7 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    4:00 Joss being bae af

  • @dantheman3850
    @dantheman3850 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Memory palace? Mind palaces are cooler, cause, Sherlock.

    • @tj843
      @tj843 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      they also have more drugs

  • @luisniebla5517
    @luisniebla5517 7 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Pretty shitty thing to force your co-workers to listen to you recite text.

    • @unknow210
      @unknow210 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      was expecting everyone to fall a sleep at end xD

    • @youtubeoffical2460
      @youtubeoffical2460 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Luis Niebla fillow me on instagram physic21_

    • @isaiahcampbell7149
      @isaiahcampbell7149 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO

  • @xbraidx
    @xbraidx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This makes sense. I always pace around my entire house while studying for exams. now I understand why my method works so well. I can literally memorize anything in a matter of minutes to hours.

  • @rednax3788
    @rednax3788 7 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    I'm sure this would be great for learning things that you need to recall linearly (like the lines in a poem)
    But would it work for things you need to call off the top of your head?

    • @Edgarldrago
      @Edgarldrago 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Gawsome No, to best recall things off the top of your head, you would need to use retrieval cues (look it up for further detail) basically, they're details that help you remember things in your long term memory. If i say, fruit, you will most likely picture/recall an apple or orange, etc

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Gawsome , yes. The version of this that uses a path or well known route is for linear recollection, but the version that references rooms in a palace leverages spatial memory to index the contents of the rooms. You don't go through the house linearly. You go to the room you need and look in the spot where you kept it.

    • @PianistMadness
      @PianistMadness 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      rednax well you can create infinite ammount of rooms in your palace/memory place, the thing is how quickly can you get to then when you need them. Regardless if you need info now or later it always stays there.

    • @OFFICALMENOFCULTURE
      @OFFICALMENOFCULTURE 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fastest way is to have multiple floors with an elevator. :)

    • @hewhomakesnosound
      @hewhomakesnosound 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@OFFICALMENOFCULTURE wrong, the fastest way is to just think about it and go. When you repeat the process of remembering the path enough times you intinctively know where to look. Just like you know where your desk is in your office or refrigerator at home.

  • @alexfazio
    @alexfazio 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    3-4 hours for 4 days to memorize two pages? It sounds like time wasting technique. I think that students who use mnemonic technic to memorize, are better for the simple reason that they put more effort to memorize compared to other students.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Alexqndr , you don't think the studies he cited accounted for that? Also, he said this works for special ed students and for himself who claims to have especially bad memory.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was learning how to memorize for the first time. I think it would work much better with each use.

    • @omnibnnuy
      @omnibnnuy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The more you use it and get an understanding for it, the easier it gets. It's like if you're taking notes, after years of taking notes, do you find your self having a much easier time then when you first started?
      No one said it works for everyone, just that it does work for a good portion of people. It plays to the human's brains strengths, but is only useful if given time and effort.
      No one rode their bike the first day they got it.

    • @LaitoChen
      @LaitoChen 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      People will cite whatever hack studies will back up their claim. Remember the studies that showed "brain-games" (luminosity apps) would improve memory? Until the scientific community had enough and did actual peer reviewed research with larger sample sizes?
      www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/
      Anyway, 4 days to memorize 1 1/2 pages verbatim is borderline ineffective regardless of technique. If you work in an industry that requires such skills, editor, lawyer, etc you may have a hard time

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Prince Blake , works fine for lawyers. Cicero was a successful lawyer who wrote about this method in his book, in addition to his time as Consul of Rome. The efficacy of this technique has been well established in the time since then.

  • @mk17173n
    @mk17173n 7 ปีที่แล้ว +474

    so pretty much visual learning.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      mk17173n , spatial memory is a different thing than visual processing.

    • @mk17173n
      @mk17173n 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      its all visual processing . the best mathematicians and scientists in the world see things as pictures rather then numbers or memorization. When they studied Albert Einstein's brain the part of his brain responsible for imagination and visualizing information was more developed then regular people. He visualized scenarios using formulas and ideas. All this is doing is using tricks to bring about memorization. I always thought this was regular way of memorizing things.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      mk17173n , this isn't about synesthesia either. The mind palace is about leveraging spatial memory in conjunction with visual. This is because the spatial memory is powerful. Useful when wandering across the savanna trying to remember where that watering hole was you visited when you were a kid :) Elephants do that with their spatial memory, not visual, thus the "never forgets", but ours is also powerful.

    • @mk17173n
      @mk17173n 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      its a mind hack but it doesn't last or is useful in long term memorization.

    • @krustomer
      @krustomer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mk17173n I'm a visual learner (at least I was told I was). Not a spatial person AT ALL.

  • @Photo_Cyclist
    @Photo_Cyclist 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Warmed up my heart seeing all of you Vox editors I usually see in separate videos, now in one single room smiling at you :) Great job!

  • @kcfamilam5109
    @kcfamilam5109 7 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    So he studied anywhere from 12 to 16 hours... to memorize a single page of text?

    • @bilbaneji2863
      @bilbaneji2863 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      idk but to memorize half of the periodic table in order, i took a 7 hour study session

    • @vedikabhatnagar335
      @vedikabhatnagar335 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      you should have listened to asapscience's periodic table song. songs make memorization much easier

    • @Me-ot7sq
      @Me-ot7sq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gabriel Gutierrez yes, I memorized the first 20 in 2 hours with that song

  • @MrTheenDx
    @MrTheenDx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "I forget somebody's name five seconds after I meet them."
    I have been living with my roommate for almost a week now but I can't remember his name and I'm too embarrassed to ask him his name.

  • @Y3m3n1ah
    @Y3m3n1ah 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I need to memorize chapters of the Quran for Arabic school but my memory sucks so this better help me or else I'll be a disappointment.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yusra l , one user of this method memorized Pi to 65,536 digits, so yes you could successfully waste your time memorizing religious texts with it.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Baron Sengir , haha, she gonna go bankrupt.

    • @ishbhaigaming139
      @ishbhaigaming139 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Baron Sengir i dnt get paid n ive dun 3 parahs... lyf hurts... but i dnt mind tbh 🙃

    • @MamboBean343
      @MamboBean343 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +thorr18BEM lol 2^16 what a nerd

    • @abdiganisugal825
      @abdiganisugal825 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's OK take it slow
      learn an ayah a day
      your memory will improve with time
      I'm assuming you're under 20.
      old age will ruin your memory
      so don't procrastinate lol

  • @espressokid3901
    @espressokid3901 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I usually 'sing' the phrases in my head so I could remember stuff, like someone's phone number.

    • @nathan528
      @nathan528 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Espresso Kid 867-5309?

    • @nuansakautsar5687
      @nuansakautsar5687 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like:
      ZERROOOO EEEEIIIIIGHTT NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH

    • @humanalltoohuman
      @humanalltoohuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting...

  • @videofanlctb
    @videofanlctb 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    so thats the memory palace in sherlock holmes

  • @suntzu8642
    @suntzu8642 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    That's nothing . I memorized 5 whole books for my final exams in Greece . They basically don't want you to understand what the book says but seriously just know the books by heart. And this is what we are evaluated upon .

    • @jorge666
      @jorge666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In my school what ever the books says doesn't matter, we're tested on meaning and other devices.

    • @suntzu8642
      @suntzu8642 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      pbananah1 what do you mean ? In Greece ?

    • @rosegush533
      @rosegush533 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow. That is extremely impressive. Did you do anything to help you memorize them?

    • @suntzu8642
      @suntzu8642 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We have an old saying in Greece. ''Repitation is the mother of learning'' if that can be translated well enough. So yeah , i kept repeting whole pages until i knew the by heart. Sometimes i linked spesific photoes that were either in the book or i was finding the on google with spesific pages too so that i could remember better where was what .Another thing . When a phrase was too complicated i used to make acronyms . Or i was reading out loud for me to hear what i should memorize later. everywere i was i carried one of those books and whenever i didnt remember something well enough i used to pick ou the book and read it again, even inside the bus. I seemed like a nerd.. I am telling you , this year was a true torture. And you want to hear the best one? I failed so have to try again this year . But now it si so much easyer... Wish me luck..

    • @dmtang01
      @dmtang01 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like everyone does that, unless you have synesthesia

  • @jacky79322
    @jacky79322 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I've been using this technique without knowing 😂 I thought everybody did this...

    • @kevina.2269
      @kevina.2269 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂 hilarious

  • @seop1721
    @seop1721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’ve memorised blank verse and it didn’t take 3 to 4 hours every day. That sounds like a very inefficient approach imho.
    I use mnemonics, too, and have read extensively in such methods, though for poetry the basic approach is to first learn by rote each line. Harry Lorayne, a great memoriser, says we use mnemonics to aid the natural memory, not to replace it.
    Read each line, look away and repeat, then continue for every other line. Then read two lines, look away and repeat. Do the next two. Etc. Then three, etc. By the time you get to a sweep of six lines you should have it all.
    If that chapter is just a page and a half, I reckon I could maybe get it all in an hour. I did Shakespeare’s ‘Thrice the brinded cat had mewd’ full witches’ speech and it took about 30 minutes to memorise completely, with some testing the following day. I then like to revisit it during the week for fun and to really ingrain it. Writing it out, for ingraining the punctuation, is also recommended. (Normally I do a stanza each day, so it’s a fun process for memorising a poem or two each week, rather than a chore.)
    I honestly don’t need a memory palace or mnemonic after doing the above, but after the above method you can use a key image per line to fix it in mind. To be honest, the only mnemonic I use is to memorise what poems I have memorised...because the ironic thing is you can forget what poems you have stored away if you don’t place the beginning of the first line in your palace.
    But don’t memorise a book chapter; memorise poetry. Makes more sense. No one wants a book recited, and it’s more fun to visit poems in your mind.

  • @HajoBenzin1
    @HajoBenzin1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    its called the "method of loci"

    • @iamapokerface8992
      @iamapokerface8992 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      HajoBenzin1 memory palace is for people who know the method of loci memory palace is good if u want to memorize much more things

  • @Heroasaurus
    @Heroasaurus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    My palace is a studio apartment. This teqnique is classist. I can only remember small phrases.

    • @meanttobe3872
      @meanttobe3872 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      use your uni or your job or a street or what ever

    • @yumisallallisyum577
      @yumisallallisyum577 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      use the objects in the apartment

  • @matildev152
    @matildev152 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've realised that I'm pretty good at memorizing things, and it's because when I'm reading something I always tend to visualise it effortlessly. So when I have to recall that bit of information, my mind simply brings up the image that I made up in my mind earlier, and I instantly remember what I had read!

  • @dandroid_
    @dandroid_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I used this to memorize 115 places of pi for a competition in 6th grade. I’m about to turn 21 and I still remember 55 digits, so yeah it works pretty well, even in the long term, although some more complicated things might fade a bit over time without consistent recall

  • @andslove88
    @andslove88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Sherlockians, where are you at?!

    • @randomperson9291
      @randomperson9291 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      andslove88 Over here

    • @awesomeguy9573
      @awesomeguy9573 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      andslove88 what is that?

    • @screwinglogic4564
      @screwinglogic4564 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aye!

    • @yomi001
      @yomi001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sherlockians are having imaginary sex with themselves.

  • @patches_kitty
    @patches_kitty 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    "Just 3-4 hours a day"

  • @jadencm4862
    @jadencm4862 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Step 1: clear schedule
    Step 2: prepare for loss of street cred
    Step 3: read the chapter a bazillion times
    Step 4: ask self why you wasted so much of your life on this task
    Step 5: stages of grief
    Rinse and repeat

  • @Winterseeker
    @Winterseeker 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love Vox! I actually learned about this reading the fantastic "Moonwalking with Einstein" a few years back - I encourage everyone to read it!

  • @andysammy6129
    @andysammy6129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Nothing big, many muslims have memorized the entire Quran

    • @nameless5053
      @nameless5053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Nicholas Pagano who said that's the only book they read?

    • @tazehallu6099
      @tazehallu6099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Nicholas Pagano Can you memorize a chinese book which consists of over 70000 words while not speaking chinese?

    • @nicholasbridgemohan
      @nicholasbridgemohan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Nicholas Pagano well why don't you memorize an entire book that's written in your secondary language and then we'll talk. Don't hate when you can't even do it

    • @humanalltoohuman
      @humanalltoohuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      By brute force, really. Saying the verses over and over again. Not very efficient.

    • @andysammy6129
      @andysammy6129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@humanalltoohuman that's a wild assumption probably coming out of your hate for a religion and intolerance towards people who are different to you. You sound like a very bad person to be around.

  • @emyemyemyyyy
    @emyemyemyyyy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I'm disabled and get brain fog and this is how I got through high school lol and probably how I'll get through university

  • @OFFICALMENOFCULTURE
    @OFFICALMENOFCULTURE 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much. You just explained this easier than anywhere I've seen MNEMONICS before.THANKS!

  • @megscorner3596
    @megscorner3596 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much for the video! I used the technique of memory palace and it helped a LOT for me to understand a book that I am reading. I first read each chapter (which is 12 pages long) and tried to locate the most unusual or unexpected details in my home. Because my home is 3 stories, I was able to locate each chapter on each floor and the other chapter in the entrance of my home. Therefore, part 1 of my book was complete (there are three parts). I then repeated the steps with each chapter by using Google Earth, etc. Now I can build a clear summary of the entire book without having to do a lot of writing and visualize in a aspect that suits me.

  • @md.hasiburrahman9456
    @md.hasiburrahman9456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Finally, I have found someone like me, who forgets people's names after 5 seconds of hearing.

  • @usernameXunavailabl3
    @usernameXunavailabl3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Why tho?...

    • @gamerdude456x
      @gamerdude456x 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      rage comics lol

    • @isham2044
      @isham2044 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jarl Ballin' U should be watching GamerPoop

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Jarl Ballin' , to demonstrate his experience trying a mnemonic method to overcome his terrible memory.

    • @gamerdude456x
      @gamerdude456x 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      you know what i'm sayin?

    • @Jeff-cr9ho
      @Jeff-cr9ho 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      google trumps memory

  • @karonights3438
    @karonights3438 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That seems really elaborate to memorize something. Honestly, reading something over and over works just as well, or just have what you wanna memorize recorded and listening to it.

  • @oreodimasdale3840
    @oreodimasdale3840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you thank you thank you so much for being recommended to me just a month after I graduated from college.

  • @ghmasterjj
    @ghmasterjj 7 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    "an entire chapter"

    • @aphr0d
      @aphr0d 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      well he's not wrong

    • @kittythecat8298
      @kittythecat8298 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      At least he tried

    • @kittythecat8298
      @kittythecat8298 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @dalanium98
      @dalanium98 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      BE COOL he said

    • @Jeff-cr9ho
      @Jeff-cr9ho 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I know right? he basically memorized a short poem. not too impressive

  • @jademonass2954
    @jademonass2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "we can easily remember faces"
    people with face blindness:

  • @Vilakazi
    @Vilakazi 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is awesome, loved his optimism as well.

  • @jamccarney6734
    @jamccarney6734 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good job. Thanks for the great and very clear explanation.

  • @ScoobyandShaggy5554
    @ScoobyandShaggy5554 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Any Sherlock fans?

  • @MarcusJII
    @MarcusJII 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Like that key and peele skit in the parking garage.

  • @poisson12376
    @poisson12376 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best books I read this year, Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer.

  • @KrunoslavStifter
    @KrunoslavStifter 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I don't want to sound cynical but the truth is that memory in 2017 is highly overrated. That is why we have smarphones, evernotes and onenotes. Impress me with understanding and wisdom. Memory was valuable back in 1910 or 1819, not today.

    • @Tecnalala
      @Tecnalala 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Krunoslav Stifter I can't take a smartphone into an exam.

    • @KrunoslavStifter
      @KrunoslavStifter 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That is because school does not prepare you for life. Its how you respond to what school teaches you that prepares you for life.

    • @enchantedtonight
      @enchantedtonight 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      School is life

    • @KrunoslavStifter
      @KrunoslavStifter 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean the other way around, life is school?

    • @enchantedtonight
      @enchantedtonight 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, sorry I meant school is a part of life so memorizing and test taking is valuable.

  • @frankbauerful
    @frankbauerful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Too bad I have no visual memory to speak of. I can't even recall my first girl friend's hair color, let alone anything about our first kiss. And although every room in my apartment has a different color, if you asked me outside of my apartment I would probably mess them up. On the bright side, I can still recite the first scene from Macbeth which I memorized by "brute force" in less than an hour more than a decade ago.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      frankbauerful , you can still leverage the extreme power of spatial memory. The video is about the Method of Loci, which means location, as in spatial memory. It's only partly visual memory and emotional is the third thing you can try to mix in.

    • @omnibnnuy
      @omnibnnuy 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Different people can learn things through different means. The annoying aspect of this video that it didn't touch on is that this is best for the more imaginative people. There are other methods, that whilst similar, are more personalized depending on the person. You just have to find the one that actually fits your preferred learning method.

  • @mohamedmahmoud4045
    @mohamedmahmoud4045 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can't memorize the first 3 words of this video but I can somehow remember big smoke's order after 1 time...

    • @DylanJo123
      @DylanJo123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Project Legend
      cuz you were probably laughing at his fat ass. like this guy said, emotions can trigger applying a memory long term

  • @zhenzhunaichaoo4750
    @zhenzhunaichaoo4750 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Job! I have heard of this method. It seems like so much work thinking up different images, but it looks like it's worth it :)

  • @hakuOTR
    @hakuOTR 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    A room filled with some of the greatest Journalists and reporters of our decade. O.O flippin amazin and I applaud you guys for your works :D

  • @0ki7o
    @0ki7o 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Good for you. All I care is why, not how.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yout Tuka to demonstrate his experience trying a mnemonic method?

  • @pizzabotstudios9957
    @pizzabotstudios9957 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sherlock explained

  • @ladymusiclover
    @ladymusiclover 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have my 1st semester exams in February. I'm so glad I procrastinated onto this video.

  • @resegotabane4227
    @resegotabane4227 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watched this completely invested until I remembered that I've memorised and performed Shakespeare before. That's me ironically forgetting that I have good memory.

  • @isaaclee3490
    @isaaclee3490 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The game is ... something!!

  • @Fuliginosus
    @Fuliginosus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd like to know the steps from remembering the images (John Waters etc.) to knowing each sentence word-for-word.

  • @alexandredemasure
    @alexandredemasure 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Literally spacing out during the video... I wanna cry

  • @alfayed1991
    @alfayed1991 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet !! This is such and cool and insightful video, thanks.

  • @Slarti
    @Slarti 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used mnemonics for my finals exams at University and since then have tried the method of loci.
    The method of loci is definitely a better way of memorising in my experience - this is what this video describes.

  • @patsrule111
    @patsrule111 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I know how something called "Time" which you certainly have

  • @bea7177
    @bea7177 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ahh I already have this !! It's really helpful.

  • @milatovar2637
    @milatovar2637 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was pretty helpful. Thank you!

  • @SamyStClair
    @SamyStClair 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Memory so good that he forgot to credit the book that this came from.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Samy St Clair , he said he has a terrible memory.

    • @VictorGonz
      @VictorGonz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      (4 years later) what book would that be? Moonwalking...?
      That one is the most famous now, but maybe he didn't get it from there.
      Also, there are hundreds of older books talking about it.

  • @es4655
    @es4655 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    new title: how I wasted my time

    • @Baerock
      @Baerock 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You just spoke my thoughts

  • @ResistAverageAcademy
    @ResistAverageAcademy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is really great, I also share some important thought on it.

  • @BMarie774
    @BMarie774 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    My mom would always make poems, songs, sayings, etc. I could spell Madagascar at age 4 because she taught me to remember the saying "Mad! A gas car?" like someone who's never seen a motor vehicle running on gasoline before might say. And when I had a spelling test in like 3rd grade and needed to remember how to spell island, she talk me to think of myself pointing from a boat on the ocean and saying "that IS LAND!". She even wrote a song about my cousins so I could remember all their names, as one aunt has 6 kids. That's just how me and my mom retained information. We would apply it to something unique yet familiar. Like the poem itself is unique and not like any other sayings, so I remember it for that. But I also remember it because it applies to something I already know. I can spell "mad" "a" "gas" and car. So I know how to spell Madagascar. I know how to spell "is" and "land" so I know how to spell island.

  • @broadwaybaby3935
    @broadwaybaby3935 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm going to memorize the whole "Robbie Rotten's Dream Team" Lazytown episode

    • @fadedflage
      @fadedflage 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its a piece of cake

  • @losttribe3001
    @losttribe3001 7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Cool! Now I'm going to get drunk and forgot my shitty kids...

  • @marcella8576
    @marcella8576 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *theatre student cackles in the distance at the thought of learning 2 pages in four days*

  •  6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice crash course on memory palaces

  • @MikeBassil
    @MikeBassil 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    lol screw that, brute force all the way with me

  • @cosmicjoshgaming3655
    @cosmicjoshgaming3655 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    but i cant remember 38 pictures

    • @pangkhongyun6290
      @pangkhongyun6290 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CosmicJosh Gaming you should remember your own room...this can be your palace already...that room can have like 20 to 30 objects if it is big enough....

  • @SuperPussyFinger
    @SuperPussyFinger 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is just "Moonwalking with Einstein," warmed over.

  • @holysword876
    @holysword876 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have read about memory palaces but never really understood it....... Until now. Thanks so much!

  • @LakesReptiles
    @LakesReptiles 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I do this for school, it works

    • @LakesReptiles
      @LakesReptiles 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      gojo bojo I try to not only create an image but like an interactive part of a story along the path in the palace

    • @aphroegy1730
      @aphroegy1730 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      try to do that in college where u have to memorize 12 chapters full with their elements and boring details lel

  • @PurpleCarrot222
    @PurpleCarrot222 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3 or 4 hours everyday for 4 days practising? I could learn it in under that without a memory palace...

  • @vvinny8
    @vvinny8 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to see you recite this 3 months from now

    • @GRACE-cr2kp
      @GRACE-cr2kp 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vinayak 1 month to go

  • @Sid00101
    @Sid00101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have two questions:
    1) Do you still remember the chapter after all this time since the post of this video?
    2) How precise does the image for each line lead you that exact line? Did your memory did a perfect transcript?
    Thanks.

  • @yuhgy6201
    @yuhgy6201 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This makes me think about how my parents made me memorize the bible verses.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      PrydeETS , eeeew

  • @wavyflac
    @wavyflac 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yea, I know this technique. Thomas Jefferson actually used a similar way to memorize his speeches.

  • @terrancebigham6765
    @terrancebigham6765 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The method is also called the "loci" method, from the Latin "loci" for place, from where we get "location".

  • @saysayjayra
    @saysayjayra 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    We do something similar in my Academic Decathlon club but for dates and events, except we have specific items that corleares to a body part that correlates to a number and for all the numbers we’d get the items and make a crazy story about it. Using the weird technique allowed us to memorize up to 100 (and more) dates with their events. It came in handy during history class.

  • @ashurgeorge4604
    @ashurgeorge4604 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    With long memorization make them into songs. With short memorization, make them into rhymes.

  • @InvisiMan2006
    @InvisiMan2006 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sixteen hours to memorize 38 sentences?? And you had to go through a crap load of mental gymnastics to do it?
    How long would it take to memorize a speech? 57 years?

    • @loukurasdoarthur
      @loukurasdoarthur 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      InvisiMan2006 You don't memorize a speech, you understand the speech and enounce it later, the words don't have to be exact

    • @InvisiMan2006
      @InvisiMan2006 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arthur King Say that to a live actor memorizing hundreds of lines out of Shakespeare! Personally, I'd me more impressed with someone being able to give an hour long speech without reading off paper vs. memorizing 38 lines from someone's favorite book.
      Just think about how many people have memorized lines of a music album word for word... it's not hard.

  • @xProjectKaos
    @xProjectKaos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why do I like this man so much

  • @BYEgime
    @BYEgime 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:56 ah, i love this band