Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0468: Memorizing Socratic questions to use in conversations

Episode Date: December 23, 2015

Charndra wants to remember Socratic questions to be used in discussions. I present some conversation mnemonic ideas for memorizing important Socratic questions. 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 468. 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. Chandra in Australia asked a question about memorizing Socratic questions to be used in discussions. Chandra says, I've made a list of these questions under several categories, such as conceptual clarification questions, probing assumptions, probing rationale,

reasons and evidence, and three other areas, each with about 10 to 15 sample questions under each compiled from a bunch of sources. I use memory palaces for such random things as stupid jokes for kids, nursery rhymes for my two-year-old, earthquake magnitude on the Richter scale, the planets, and so on. For myself, I want to have better critical thinking question skills, but I'm not sure how to use my palaces for this purpose. the organization that you need. So obviously you can use a memory palace with seven main rooms or main general locations for those categories subdivided into 10 to 15 sublocations for the particular questions that you have memorized or that you're working on memorizing. Now the question is really how to turn those questions into actual imagery that you'll remember and that will prompt you to remember the question when you go to the palace. So my suggestion is that for each of these questions,

think of a sample situation in which that question might be asked of someone, and make it really visual. For the assumption probing question, is this always the case? You know, that's a common Socratic question. That does seem pretty abstract, but to make the visualization strong, maybe have something really visual like having Bugs Bunny asking Elmer Fudd if rabbits always have lots of children. And meanwhile, there are lots of little tiny rabbits jumping around them and Elmer Fudd is bumping them with his gun. So that's pretty visual. And if they're both standing on the

back of your sofa in the room where all of your assumption probing questions are kept, then you'll be able to associate the question with that location and also with your other assumption probing questions. The goal here is that when you find yourself in a particular situation, such as when you want to probe someone's rationale, let's say, you can easily find the question you need to ask by going to the appropriate room in your palace, which in that case would be the rationale probing palace in your memory palace. So anyway, you have these different general areas for the types of questions or the types of situations, and you can just choose a question by going around your room and quickly picking one of them. And since you're making them really visual, you'll be able to see immediately which types of questions go with which situations and you'll just remember them from the characters that you've had asking those questions now honestly shandra this

is a really cool project and i'd love to collaborate with you on this so if you just shoot me an email at timothy at master of memory.com let's create some mnemonics that we can share with the audience at master of memory.com I think that that would be really cool. For everyone listening, check out masterofmemory.com slash start for a free, no opt-in required starter guide that you can use just to understand what I say in these episodes, because I don't want to sound like I'm talking in some different language when I'm referring

to memory palaces and number pegs and stuff like that. And then meanwhile, what do you want to learn? The world's knowledge can be yours. Leave your specific learning request at masterofmemory.com slash question like Chandra did, and I'll talk to you again soon.