Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0422: New: A mnemonics startup guide

Episode Date: October 20, 2015

Eduardo requests a startup guide for mnemonic beginners. I provide the guide here and use the podcast to talk about how to use it. What do you want to learn? Leave your question at http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music credit: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet, 2nd movement, performed by the US Army Band.

Master of Memory 422. Welcome to Master of Memory. I'm Timothy and I'm here to answer your accelerated learning questions every day and to inspire and empower you to learn anything you want to learn faster than ever. Today's question is from Eduardo. Hello, Timothy. I'm Eduardo Martini from Brazil. And I have finally finished to listen to all your episodes. And your podcast is really good.

But I would like to see a starter guide, like a mind map of the initial tactics to developing the mnemonic system. Like first, should I start with a PAO system or a PAG system or the major system, I would like you to explain as a little guide to walk through the mnemonic process. Okay? Thank you. Great podcast. Love the show.

Really thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you, Eduardo, for being such a faithful listener. And I'm just flattered that you've listened to every single episode because even though they're short, I mean, this is episode 422. If you don't count the repeats, then there aren't quite that many, but that's a lot of listening. So I really appreciate the fact that you've put that much into it. And in appreciation for that, I'm providing exactly what you're asking for here. At your request, I'm providing a full guide for basically for anyone who just wants to get started

with mnemonics. You may not know exactly what you're wanting to learn with these mnemonics or you don't want to get started with a particular project right away. You just want to arm yourself with all the resources that you need basically to learn anything that you want to learn permanently in the fastest way that's known. So basically this guide, which you can find at masterofmemory.com start, is just eight lessons that will get you started from the beginning and then all the way to having all the resources you need to tackle pretty much any learning project. Each lesson will have two parts. The first is a general skill with sort of an exercise for learning that skill. And then the second part will be a few, it's sort of a bonus section for learning major-based object pegs. So you can learn the

numbers while you're going through these eight lessons. By the end of the project, you'll have object pegs. You'll have pegs that I talk about all the time in these episodes for all the numbers from 0 to 99. And then essentially by the end of the guide, as I said, you'll have every resource that you need to learn anything you want to learn permanently, as I describe in these episodes. The first episode introduces you to mnemonics and to being able to create mnemonics the right way, so that whenever you create mnemonics,

you know that you're doing it in a solid way and that you'll remember them. And the exercise at the end of the lesson will have you, first of all, learning the first nine of our number pegs, 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, and 33, and easily putting them into practice into some virtual memory palaces where you can practice memorizing numbers using these object pegs that will teach you without you really having to come up with anything on your own. We'll just give you mnemonics that are visual and that should work for you to memorize these numbers. So that's what the first lesson does.

It teaches you how to create mnemonics that you know will be memorable, and then it puts it into practice by showing you how you can remember hotel room numbers, neighbors' addresses, phone numbers, and so on. Lesson two will go over names and faces, and we'll also introduce the digit zero so that you can remember a few more object pegs. We'll give you those object pegs. Lesson three goes into how to organize memory palaces, and basically we'll teach you how to do that, but also give you a sort of guided exercise in remembering different categories of

dinosaurs using an organized memory palace. Lesson four will be all about exam preparation. Lesson five is about passage memorization with a short poem to memorize as the exercise at the end. And then also in each of these chapters, you're remembering more and more object pegs as well. Lesson six is about memorizing the streets of a city. Lesson seven is about creating a mental index, a mental reference of an entire book. And then lesson eight is about creating a historical timeline in your mind where you can put all sorts of dates and events and everything into your own memory palace for historical dates that's

unlimited in scope. And at that point, you'll be unlimited in the dates and years that you can put into that memory palace because we'll finish learning all of the object pegs. So again, you can find all of this at masterofmemory.com. It's sort of my thank you to you, Eduardo, and to everyone listening for being faithful listeners and for supporting the show. So I encourage every serious listener who actually wants to put these tactics into action to go through that, to get ideas for what sorts of things that you could learn using those resources, and then just to ring me up like Eduardo did and leave your request of what you want to learn using these tactics. The world's knowledge can be yours. Leave your learning request at masterofmemory.com slash question, and I'll talk to you again

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