Ancient Memory Techniques

Ancient memory techniques are amazing, and all the more so when you include multiple locations and periods of time.

As we go through this list together, two things:

There’s no particular order of importance here. I’m just laying out all the great techniques I’m aware of from around the world and throughout time.

You’ll notice some crossover between these techniques, if not repetition. That’s because all memory techniques appear to be spatial in one form or another.

Further, as Giordano Bruno has said in many of his memory books, if anyone thinks long and hard enough about these techniques, they’ll reach the same conclusions.

These techniques might seem like they belong to or originate with a particular group. Certainly, everyone should take pride in their history.

But because there is so much crossover between these techniques, we should see the common humanity in them and not arrive at some kind of tribalism.

--- Bookmarks ---

0:55 "Dusty old books..."
1:18 Don't get me wrong on this point
2:25 Repetition Rocks!
2:33 Bruno's Wisdom
3:50 Repetition is difference
3:59 What "ancient" means
4:31 Aboriginal memory techniques
5:53 How to use a Songline
6:12 Songline example
6:41 Abbreviations
8:21 Pegword method
8:54 Katapayadi
10:15 Buddhist memory techniques
11:39 Ars Notoria
12:51 The Greek Memory Palace
14:46 The Hidden Greek knowledge
15:14 Parallelism and Enveloping
17:59 The Hand Memory Palace
19:50 The Mystic Ark
20:42 Bruno's Statues
22:09 Statues for learning multiple languages
22:13 Using a toy as a Memory Palace
23:29 Ninja memory techniques
26:38 Robert Fludd's "Real" Theater Technique

--- Additional Resources ---

Active Recall

Tyson Yunkaporta on Aboriginal and Indigenous memory techniques

Ars Notoria

Mike McKinley

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[droptzbliss]

Thanks Antony for your effort in helping us, i wanted to tell about the technique which i use for remembering months which has 30 or 31 days, there are only 4 months which has 30 days obviously feb has 28 or 29 depending on the leap year, April June September November, we can either remember these as the months which comes before and after may and October, if that takes too long then we can remember AJ (April june) as in AfroJack, and SN (September November) as in SNL or SNooze.

[slickwilly]

I just listened to the book "make it stick" the science of successful learning by Peter c Brown (8 chapters) and chapter 7 was about memory systems, very interesting. My newest memory Palace is my closet and the clothes on the hangers which have not changed in the order I have hung them up for the last twenty years.

[WhiteSneed]

hey, funny thing: the way I got interested in memory techniques was an old Lorayne/Lucas book someone had thrown out. So yes, I let the idea that the Greeks were our memory experts go unchallenged.

[Sasha-vxgg]

Hey Anthony!
Could you please do a video or a short on Imposter Syndrome and how to combat it? Most likely you have known people who had it or encountered it yourself throughout your vast career as a memory coach. Muchas Gracias!

[cbbcbb]

Need to start people on learning this stuff from preschool all the way through post graduate education. Teach it to people that do not need graduate school. Present it to all corners of all societies.
Does anyone remember Chisenbop? I probably did not spell that correctly. It was a hand or finger math technique. I think it was from Korea.

[admin-morres]

Thanks sir you are improving a brain 🧠 (growing it well) 😀

[paganiyah]

Anthony, im having a big hard time to make associations into the stations as the imagery gets so extense that would be easier learn the sentences berbatim😢..any tips?

[dlcreator]

Cerebral Cortext may be the area of permanamt memory storage where memory gets stored after 5 repetitions and maybe it stores oir best memories(Visual, Auditory, Motor(Procedual), Spatial, Primary, Visual and Auditory Association, Sensory Stimuil, *Semantic*(Maybe), Sensory(Maybe). Although I do not know a much about storage of memories in the Cerebral Cortext.

I mapped the steps of the memory palace and the Magnetic memory palace with the functions of the memory palace and while the comolete steps of the Memory Palace method mapped with 5 fubctions of cerebral cortext with the Magnetic Memory Palace also mapped more compleltely to the Cerebral Cortext.

I think that the best memory athletes use all the functions of the cerebral cortext instead of about half or most of them and the functions of the cerebral cortext where I think tht if a memory is stored it is encoded better and it leads to better memory as better encoding leads to befter memory which I think Justin Sung said.

All of the functions of the cerebral cortext may be dircectly mapped to your research ove rmultiple years and it might save you some time if this is true(You may come to know more things that you would have otherwise come to know through years of experience, maybe).

[augustojoaquínrodríguez]

what?? Have you replaced the mythical, the heavenly, the angelic "Cheshire" with a T-rex??😁
Fantastic video Anthony!

[dlcreator]

I noticed that all steps of the Magnetic Memory Palace are the functions of *Cerebral Cortext* in the brain and the Magnetic Memoey Palace uses two more functions of the Cerebral Cortext than other memory palaces, I hope that you gind out the functions of cerebral cortext and compare them with your and other memory palaces.

Did you intentionally leave out the function(s) of Sensory Stimulil Discrimination from it as I could not find it in the Magnetic Memory Palace or maybe I am wrong and its there in Magnetic Memory Palace.

[WhiteSneed]

I've always sort of figured that ethnobotanists a hundred-thousand years ago must have had vigorous memories to stay alive. Ethnobotanists or, as they called them back then, people.

[talhazulfiqar]

sir..i need almost 30 thausand locations in my mind palace for my exam..what to do?

[dlcreator]

How to use all of our brain when using the technique of the memory palace, As maybe if a person uses the memory paalce technique without emotions lesser parts of his brain get involved amd *engaged* and so a user of a memory palace has worse memory(based on what I had read) compared to a user of memory palace technique who uses emotions along with the memory palace technique as the person who uses emotions is engaging and involving more of his brain, However more is not all,

How can I *engage* all of my brain when using the memory palace technique ?

[WhiteSneed]

Sun came out. Must run outside so I can't finish right now. But I won't forget you.

[WhiteSneed]

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