Author:: [[Anthony Metivier]] Category:: #🐉 URL:: https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/videos/masterplan/ # Magnetic Memory Method Masterplan ### How To Come Up With Memory Palaces It’s impossible to run out or struggle finding memory palace locations to use. The easiest way is to go through the alphabet and write down all palaces that come to mind with those letters. You can prompt them by thinking about people, place, actions, objects associated with that letter. You can even reuse palaces by envisioning them as a different substance like wood, stone, or clouds. ### Organizing Your Memory Palaces Indexing your memory palaces by alphabet can be helpful if you need to remember what memory palace you put something in. But even more helpful is just ingraining it into long term memory through continual recall of information. Talk about it, write it out from memory, read more on the topic. All of this will help ingrain the information. ### How To Connect Your Memory Palaces You can connect your memory palaces by attaching them together through windows, doors, or other places inside of them that make sense. One major tip to be able to do this seamlessly is to never start your memory palace journey at the entrance to a building but rather at the dead end of a building. This is because if you start at a dead end you can end your journey at a door or other connecting location in which you can attach another memory palace. ### The Memory Journal Your memory journal is the place where you can draw out your initial memory palaces and practice your memory. The front is for drawing out your memory palaces. The back is for practicing recall of the information inside from memory. When starting out, make your memory palaces as simple as possible. Don't let perfectionism stop you from starting. Follow the rule of three. Even if there were way more than three tables in a room, stick to three because having more would be overcomplicating things. **It's planning a journey, not reproducing a building.** When recalling information in the back of your journal, don't have the correct answer ready at hand. This would tempt you to cheat. Instead force yourself to try and pull it from memory as hard as you can. ### Three Most Common Mistakes Regarding Memory Palaces 1. People "save" their best memory palaces for more important information. Don't procrastinate memorizing because you want to save your best memory palaces for later. Get started now. 2. People think memory palaces are for storing information. They are for assisting in your embedding of it into long term memory, not for storing the information itself. 3. People think they will run out of memory palaces. Firstly, this will take years before it could ever be an issue and you can make more. Secondly, you can reuse memory palaces by getting rid of old images inside of them. ## Video 2.1: How To Use Memory Palaces To "Encode" & Store Information ##### Three Rules Of Effective Encoding Of Information Into Memory Palaces 1. Location. Using a location for your association in memory gives you something to anchor on. You don't have to remember locations in the same way you do other things. They are so sticky in memory. 2. Imagery. Exaggerated imagery that borrows from many different magnetic modes make things more sticky in mind. You want an image to be so bizzare and multisensory you can't help but remember it. Personalization is key. What you find memorable is different from others. You might remember one celebrity above another. 3. Action. Just seeing Zeus wouldn't be very memorable. But seeing Zeus shoot a bolt of lightning at a knights radiant from the Stormlight Archives would. All of these things cause the rubberneck effect, the effect that makes you have to look at an accident when you see it on the road because it's so attention grabbing. When you have location, imagery, and action, it's so attention grabbing you just have to see it. ## Video 2.2: Magnetic Imagery & The Magnetic Modes To encode things deeper into your brain, you want to utilize the magnetic modes. They can be summed up with the acronym KAVE COGS which stands for: K - Kinesthetic A - Auditory V - Visual E - Emotional C - Conceptual O - Olfactory G - Gustatory S - Spatial The more of these you encode in any single visualization, the more *magnetic* it is in your mind and easier it will be to decode when visiting the visualization later on. It's magnetic because it pulls the information you are trying to remember deeper into memory while repelling the information you aren't trying to remember. It's essential in this process that you create personal associations for each of these modes. The more personal they are to you, the more sticky they will be in your mind. In addition, the more of these Magnetic characteristics you can add into your magnetic encodings on top of the KAVE COGS acronym, the more sticky they will be in memory:  [[Memory Palace Network Alphabetically Ordered]] ### Video 2.3 Memory Palace Sea Shelling And Magnetic Bridging Figures The last thing you want to have become a problem while using a memory palace is getting stumbled upon where you are in your memory palace journey. However, going with the common advice of starting at the entrance to a memory palace will cause this to occur. You will cross your path. Instead, Anthony recommends sea shelling a technique where you navigate clockwise or counterclockwise around a room at the micro level or an entire memory palace network at the macro level. To make things even easier you don't even have to walk around the room in your mind if you don't want. You can stand at a specific spot and simply peer inside navigating the stations. Another great tip to make sure you don't dead end yourself is to start at a dead end in your memory palace like at the top floor somewhere. ###### Magnetic Bridging Figures Magnetic Bridging figures are figures you can use as an anchor to a memory palace journey that show up in every encoding. For example, if you were creating a memory palace for learning German words that start with ab, Abraham Lincoln would be a fantastic bridging figure to use. ### Video 3 How To Memorize A Textbook 1. Read back cover, table of contents, intro, conclusion, and index, to signpost yourself for the book. 2. Relax yourself using breathing techniques. Get in the right mindset for consuming information. See it as growth. Temper the self. Remove distractions. 3. Take notes while reading on index cards, 3-5 highlights or chapter. No hard rules, do more or less. But having a limit on how many index cards you can use beforehand can keep you from the collectors fallacy.  4. Assimilate highlights together and organize by structure of the book or create your own structure based on what resonated with *you.* 5. Place each main idea of the 3-5 you highlighted for each chapter in its own memory palace station by creating an encoding. If necessary use station 1 for bibliographic information for the book, and have the author walk you through its main points. Anthony recommends you don't put the encoding you use on the back of the card to prevent cheating while recall rehearsing later on. However, if you need peace of mind you can place the encoding you use inside of a excell file somewhere or some other place you can refer to if you don't want to lose it. 6. Place the index cards in a stack and put them inside a shoebox alphabetically associated with the book you are reading. For example, A shoebox for notes on the Analects. 7. Go through recall rehearsal with the memory palace encodings over the next few weeks and months. 8. Apply the concepts in your real life if you feel they deserve it. 9. Optional: create a summary. You can do this after the third step or here. Depends on your goals. If you are writing a essay, memorizing for a test, or something else. ###### How Can You Use Your Index Cards Afterward For Writing? One of Anthony's favorite things to use the Index cards for is to organize his thinking for writing books, blog posts, or other creative ventures. He sets them out on the floor and uses the Dump, Lump, Jump method I preach. ###### What Is Anthony's Problem With The Zettelkasten Method? While Anthony's index card method for memorizing books is heavily inspired from the [[Zettelkasten]] method, it's different in that the connections between ideas are memorized rather than written down on the card. Anthony's logic is that this keeps the connections inside of the brain rather than out in the external world. ### Video 4: Recall Rehearsal & The Path To Remembering Anything Long Term Dominic O Brien, a very prominent memory champion, recommends you recall rehearse information using the system described below: Day 1: Go through memory palace once. 24 hours later: Go through memory palace once. 1 week later: Go through memory palace once. 1 month later: Go through memory palace once. 3 months later: Go through memory palace once. This recalling method has an issue because it disregards the serial positioning effect. The serial positioning effect describes how we tend to remember the beginning and end of information we are remembering than the middle which is similar to the [[Peak end rule]]. The issue with the previous memorization method is there is no regard for this fact. You memorize linearly the whole way through which means you are more likely to forget the middle of your memory palace journey. That's why whenever Anthony does a recall rehearsal he does so by going forward, backward, inside out, outside in, and sometimes randomly rolls a die to recall from his memory palaces. Anthony is of the belief that if you truly want to turn information into knowledge you should be recalling more often than this. However, he makes it clear that the method for recall he proposes is a *method*, not a system. You can and should change it to work with your memorization needs. ###### What If You Make A Mistake While Recall Rehearsing? If you make a mistake you can compound that mental encoding by adding running through KAVE COGS again, adding more of the magnetic characteristics mentioned earlier, or adding more mental encodings.