Advanced Memory Palace Problems & Solutions With Don Michael Vickers

For those of us who have been using the Memory Palace technique for awhile, interesting issues emerge.

Questions that can be hard to solve.

Unless you commune with other serious players.

Like I like to do.

Enter Don Michael Vickers, an incredible memory athlete who not only performs well, but thinks deeply about the use of mnemonics for competition. And he has ideas that will help you with long term memory retention too.

I certainly learned a ton!

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Intrigued by Don's tracking suggestion?

For more on the point about using a journal to develop your skills with the Memory Palace technique, check out Johannes Mallow's' amazing tips next:

[milleniumslayer]

Thanks as always for the great conversations, Anthony. And as an avid Making Sense listener, that Sam clip made my day!

[HasturYellowSign]

I may have gone a bit overboard in my memory palaces. London Taxi drivers have to learn what’s called The Knowledge. It’s a 6 mile circle of London streets, museums, statues, et al. So I decided to take those 320 runs, statues, museums, etc along with filming locations of Midsomer Murders, Sherlock Holmes Locations, and a few other places and using a notebook of graph paper, colored pencils, Print-outs from google earth at full screen and high res to make a notebook for memory palaces. There are a lot of KML files for Google Earth that already exist for these. Each stop, or turn along the way, I turn into a memory palace with anywhere from 10 stations to 25 stations. Each route has about at least 25 stops, unless a museum, blue plaque, place of significant interest, etc is there which can become another memory palace within the memory palace. They’re not as time consuming to make as you might think. Usually I learn to call the run first and then pick the places to capture. This with using Bruno’s wheel method for People-Object, Action, Fantastical Bestiary, provides a lot of options. It goes quicker the more I practice. So I can make about 3 a week. I’m not sure I’ll make them for all 320 runs, but I always have fodder to make a new palace that I enjoy walking through.

[ronaldjohnson_ita]

You’ve explained it correctly. The earlier version of the Shadow System had actual “shadows” as you’ve mentioned, ketchup and mustard, etc. However, Johannes Mallow contributed the “block-method” where a card pair can have different images based upon its location in the palace which significantly reduced the overall number of images one had to create in contrast to the traditional 2 Card System. Lance Tschirhart further developed the system by modifying the phonetics in certain number ranges to make to process of creating 3 digit images easier.

[scorpionsubzero]

Good morning Anthony. Thank you for the video.
Can you point me where I could learn about the Shadow technique? Curious about how it works

[talhazulfiqar]

sir..!... how many objects can we put on single location of mind palace for a huge assignment?

[Mohamed-estr]

I know that situation of having to choose between speed and quality. We have a famous quote that says "this is the age of speed" and the reason is machine controlled the world. For example in agriculture people prefer higher quantity of wheat than more healthy one so starvation decreases and people do not harm national security by throwing food in rubbish also in economy based on supply and demand theory the higher the quantity the lower the price so people can live longer in a more comfortable life but the cons is people need to work so hard and they get several diseases when they get old.
Also one of the techniques I use to memorize numbers is lists of 10 colors - animals - verbs - objects so in total I have to memorize 40 items to be able to memorize any 4 numbers. It goes like this color + subject (animal) + verb + object. Besides I can get anomalous sentences like "blue ant is eating a fridge" which is funny and weird and that makes remembering the number easier.
Also I hate those efficiency and effectiveness issues but I liked that idea of doing calculations and shuffling decks of cards

[nobody-vwci]

I want to have a great memory so I get the best grades in my class.