Best Ways To Troubleshoot the Memory Palace Technique

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Want some Memory Palace Examples to help you troubleshoot even further? Watch this next: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIjHYn6XjKt1o5I

[@zwebzz9685]

I explained location based mnemonics to my parents and their friends all in their 60s and the method really clicked for them when I asked them to imagine the layout of their childhood home from 40-50 years ago and they all easily could.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

That's wonderful - spatial memory is such a miraculous and magical tool. But if anyone winds up struggling, it may be worth sharing these reasons why it doesn't get with some people: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIW5cnuEmtlgfMU If memory serves, you've already commented on that one and many thanks for your interest, support and engagement in the discussion!

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

Autism has drawbacks and benefits. One of the benefits for me is a very visual memory. I can walk around my palaces, feeling the stone under my feet and smelling incense on the wind. …Actually had no idea that it was unusual until a few years ago!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

You are lucky!

[@jessegrillo7453]

Blowing my mind with this quality content!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for swinging by and for the kind words! 🙏

[@alchemynotes]

This video got me back to using memory palaces after some decent break! Offtop. Your video editing skill got even better, amazing job!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Glad you enjoyed it! Currently editing videos myself. :-)

[@knw-seeker6836]

Very interesting at first I thought that it’s to much to complicated But as I get further in my psychology studies it makes a lot of sense to learn it There is so much material to cover, i love your game perspective Game thinking has been used successfully already in medical education

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Games for the win!

[@Renee-Heal-The-Eagle]

I realized that my memory palaces are reflecting my outward chaos. Serious truth. It was a embarrassing yet helpful revelation.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

That is a good one. My early MPs used to reflect chaos too. Now they are all much simpler… at least, most of the time. In so many ways, this practice is like many others: remove the obstacles and the path becomes clearer and clearer.

[@medstamil3419]

I am a medical student, And i have six memory palace. 3 hospital , my home , school and College And many station in one memory palace and spend time three month for them

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Sounds like you're doing great so far! Any particular struggles you're facing? Did this video help you out?

[@MasterBrain182]

🤘 Astonishing content Anthony 💯💯 Thanks to share your knowledge with us 🥳👍

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@vishaladrushannavar4540]

thank you Anthony, love your content

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@samross2459]

Great video thanks Anthony! I’m going to try letting go of “doing it right” and focus on the enjoyment.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Always great to hear from you, Sam. Keeping the practice loose and relaxed is the key.

[@extranhodm]

Hi, Anthony! Haven’t commented in a while, but I really enjoy your videos. I specially enjoyed the vibe in this one, and the more loose style you are using now. I wish you the best of luck in your coming course, I’m sure it will be a success. I’m also exploring cohort based courses, currently teaching one about my personal version of the Zettelkasten method with digital notes. Any way, I wish you the best. Hope you have a great end of the year!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for stopping by - much appreciated and so great to hear from you. Very cool that you're doing a program around the Zettelkasten. It's great and snaps together wonderfully with the Memory Palace technique. Warm wishes for the end of your year too and talk soon!

[@RosBroz3D]

Wormholing! That is something Ive recently been delving into! Love that there is a term for this.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@thekingdomofelohim]

Every day I wake up and I try to memorize 600 numbers. I take one day a week off. The best I've done has been about 69% in a little over an hour. Tons of errors. However, this is up from about getting 5% when I started, as I had an awful memory before. Some of this stuff has helped as I learned from someone who did things differently.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great routine! Errors are the path to improvement.

[@thekingdomofelohim]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thanks. I'd be interested in learning about your routine. You are very obviously still much better at this than I am. If I could do it, I would do memory all day every day, 10 hours a day. I get worn out and have a bunch of resistance in my mind about it but am improving slowly. I love the way I feel emotionally and mentally after 3-4 hours of coding and recall. It is like a "braingasm" as I like to call it.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Basically, this is what my routine looks like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKq4pH-Kha2Vis0

[@rudrapandey7192]

Lot of respect for you sir!!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks, Rudra! Anything in particular you're currently using the Memory Palace technique to help you learn?

[@mr.pickitt5426]

In this video you pretty much summarize and solve all the "issues" I had with Memory Palaces. I don't have those issues any longer, but am nonetheless glad I watched this video. It was a liberating moment once I came to grips with MPs, because they make memorizing so much easier and effective. To me MPs are the cornerstone of each learning project and it's become my mantra "MP first!" whenever I want to memorize anything bigger.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Love that Mantra! Do you have specific decision metrics for knowing when something is big enough for an MP or too small? For example, I use an MP even for just one name.

[@mr.pickitt5426]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Hi Anthony, interesting that you are using an MP for even just one name. I havn't gotten far with remembering names yet, but I am going to look at it soon. When I decide whether something is "worth" an MP, I ask myself first, whether I want to keep it in my long term memory. Currently, that applies to two poems and ten songs (lyrics and chords). But I would also use an MP, if had to learn a lot of information in a short time, eg for a job interview, even though I might not intend to keep that in my long-term memory. For shopping lists and the likes I use my Alphabet (A=Ape, B=Bear, C=Chamelion, etc. )

[@cashiro]

I though we lost you in the first 10 seconds!!!! Very funny!!!!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I have been trying to inject a bit of humor into these videos. Thanks for letting me know it's coming across. :-)

[@Viperveteran]

I was actually learning a lot of this stuff during my training but this just provided so much clarity and reassurance that I am headed in the right direction. I will definitely use more memory palaces now too. :)

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Awesome! 🙏

[@toniconn9688]

This is helpful as I'm worried I'll make a mistake while creating memory palaces that will cost me. I'm studying for the EA exams and am struggling with doing well on practice tests. I know many concepts. Applying them to math story problems is tough!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks, Toni. What are some of the math story problems you're dealing with?

[@Educatorabhik]

Dear Anthony sir, it is an amazing video. It has undoubtedly solve my problems creating the memory palaces, about which I told you through email and through this video now I can understand my mistakes in making memory palace. I really like the way you teach and your hair style as well. Thank you, sir.🙏

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Wonderful! Glad you find this teaching style useful. Hopefully I will never go bald!

[@Educatorabhik]

😊😊 thank you, sir🙏🙏

[@Davlavi]

Making learning fun is ecclesial to making it easier.

[@Malini108]

"... you only use the parts of the building that you are basing the memory palace on." This is the answer I was seeking today. Thank you for that. There are so many answers to my questions in this video actually! I have one outstanding question though. If 26 is the ideal amount of memory palaces, could you take for example a town, and call that one memory palace and connect the buildings that already hold different related subjects in them? Or should each building be considered as 1?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Glad this provided the answer you were looking for. To your question, you can do it either way. Ultimately, the best answer has to take the learning goal into consideration. Feel free to say more and perhaps I will have a more conclusive answer - noting that I ultimately recommend exploring both the options you have mentioned at some point along your journey into memory. 🙏

[@Malini108]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Thanks for your speedy reply! I am studying a traditional medicine system in a second language and need to add and connect a lot information in two languages, and also build onto the information over time in layers.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

In this case, there are some interesting and subtle approaches to consider. They're a bit difficult to explain via text, but there's a section devoted to this kind of learning project in the MMM Masterclass. It's with an actual naturopath and there's another key example from traditional medicine with an actual professional you'll probably find useful as well.

[@chiyozyem5470]

🙏 you're genius. I got a project for my palace. How do I start?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for your kind words, though I would say let a few hundred years pass after my death before deciding on whether or not I'm a genius. In terms of starting, I suggest making sure you develop several Memory Palaces. That way you can get several levels of memory operating at the same time and hit the ground running. Does this suggestion help you out?

[@sweetybelle1232]

Hey anthony, I have a few questions. How do you get faster with the technique? Does it just come with practice? And have you ever used a location twice but for the second time, you used different stations. Also thanks for the video.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Yes and yes. 1. Study and practice 2. The MMM Masterclass goes deep on the triple-Memory Palace technique. My TEDx was in a modified MP with exactly the shifting you mention to accommodate two other texts. It’s a fantastic approach!

[@sweetybelle1232]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thanks for the quick reply. What kind of study routine for the memory palace would you recommend? I know there's not a one size fits all but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

There are over a dozen detailed recommendations on the bonus page of the MMM Masterclass. Check them out next time you're logged into the program. :-)

[@thekingdomofelohim]

You are a great teacher dude. The most interesting person related to memory I've found on the internet.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for your kind words and for being part of the conversation. Apart from numbers, anything else you want to commit to memory?

[@thekingdomofelohim]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I just wrote a long response and it got deleted. Right now I am memorizing through the 613 mitzvot list (commandments in the Bible) which is utterly boring, but good for discipline. I am 222 in, each one having 5 information points (number, instruction, chapter, verse) so it is about 1110 associations so far that are stored. After that is done I want to memorize through the 5 books of Moses, which I am thinking of doing letter by letter in Hebrew, which I don't speak. I'm more interested in learning about physics though and mathematics. The number memorization I do because it is a way to memorize through large amounts of specific data very quickly and practice concentration and association quality in a way which is very easy to measure. This is actually why I was thinking of doing the letter-by-letter memorization of the Hebrew, as it is the same sort of thing (large amounts of specific data memorized quickly using a coded system). I figure if I did 300 connections per day, it would take 1,010 days. I am trying to get my brain doing this stuff naturally for normal stuff, which it is starting to do, but I think won't really do for another 1-2 years perhaps of practice. Gradually it is sort of fixing me. Long story.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Very interesting. If you know the gematria, it should help you a great deal because every Hebrew letter can also be a number. I use bi-directional number/letter approaches a lot with my Sanskrit project and it is very useful.

[@peakperformance6117]

Simply Fantastic .

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for checking it out! 🙏

[@johneric3886]

Nice work Anthony. My god did you come across confident, particularly in the last 3 minutes of the video.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks as ever for your support. Absolute truth = confidence, no? Let’s keep spreading the good news about memory! 💪🚀🙏

[@johneric3886]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM that's the word on the street. Referring to your comment "absolute truth." I really like the phrase, [ truth is higher than all religion. ]

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

That is a great phrase... provided it doesn't lead one to inadvertently treat the truth itself religiously. "Higher" is a bit problematic because truth need not be above the ground at all, if you know what I mean.

[@johneric3886]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM good stuff. _______ I'll tell you a funny story that's not related to the previous conversation. [ I've been using a fleece blanket for my pillow the past two months. ] ____________The reason I do this it's to keep myself in practice when I go bicycle touring. I thought you would appreciate that story, because you recommend that the people that watch your channel, to stay in practice and review their celebrity list(s) a few times a week. ( I've got a lot better with bicycle touring and carrying camping gear over the past 25 years.) In fact two months ago, I just cycled from Northeast Ohio to Cumberland Maryland. One pedal at a time; ( but I do mix in a hotel every few nights.) Don't be super impressed, I took a Greyhound back home. Or I'm sorry I meant to say Amtrak.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Amtrack, Greyhound - both great options that open up many a Memory Palace across North America for me. Ah, the "media" of transportation!

[@raymundsantos2324]

Hi Anthony, good morning! Which is better the memory palace technique or the Roman room technique or is it possible to combine both? And if you have many items to memorize, how would you fit it in your palace? Thank you very much!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Lovely question! In your mind, what is the key difference between the Memory Palace and the Roman Room? In terms of your second question, I believe it is answered in today’s video. Can you review and guess what it is? 🙏

[@raymundsantos2324]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I think the key difference between a memory palace and a Roman room is that in a memory palace you have to go through a journey to view an image that you are looking for whereas in a Roman room, it's right there before you all the images like staring at a picture.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Interesting. So you would use the Roman Room strictly as one room and one room only?

[@raymundsantos2324]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM yes, because it's quite confusing if you put more images into it and you might forget some things that are hidden from sight. BTW, how would you know if you need to refresh the information again without the use of reminder apps like Anki? Thank you for your replies!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I'd reverse the question: If you need Anki, aren't you training yourself out of the very skill you want? At least for me, that skills is to be able to remember even in the absence of technology.

[@Rob0_t]

I can't remember/imagine smells and things like that but I'm trying my best to "cure" at least my visual aphantasia. I want so much to improve my visuo-spacial abilities and being able to visualize and rotate things in my mind. It doesn't even have to be realistic. I'm really into manga and anime and I was thinking that it would way more memorable for me and take way less effort to picture things as anime/manga animation/drawings instead of photo-realistic stuff, but right now I can't really visualize anything unless I'm half asleep, and even on those cases I rarely have the ability to control what I see.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Keep taking action. As far as I can tell, it’s the only way forward.

[@Laboman16]

2 questions Why aren't my images for the MP isn't working? How to combine more than one informations into one vivid image for MP?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for these questions. How are you putting your images together and what is the target information? If you’re using the Magnetic Memory Method, your images will always combine, almost as if on their own.

[@__unknown___]

Hello, Anthony! I have a question that you must get a lot. Is it ok to have lots of subjects inside the same memory palace? For example, I need to memorize stuff about 13 different subjects. I was thinking about creating a different palace for each one, but then I watched a couple of videos in which you claim the best strategy is to have palaces based on the alphabet. That sounds pretty logical to me, but the fact the information might get jumbled up really concerns me. I guess it would be best if I had 26 palaces for each subject, but that would require 338 palaces, which is unthinkable to me right now considering I'm not even sure if I can come up with 26!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I do get it a lot and there’s a direct answer here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i57XXpyko6Zgq5o There’s more knowledge on how to do it well in my course with an example from my TEDx Talk, a Memory Palace used three times for three texts with zero confusion. If you can’t come up with 26, work with what you’ve got and build from there. The world is a big place and the more you improve your memory, the more options you’ll find. Does this way of looking at things help you out? 🙏

[@__unknown___]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Woah, you answer so fast! Haha. Thank you so much :) I'd like to ask something else. I used to go to this school when I was really small (like 5 or something) and I don't remember the details, but I do remember the general location of some rooms (like classrooms, bathrooms, food court). So while trying to draw a map, I realized there are a few rooms that I'm sure existed because I remember being inside them (I even have a photo in one of them), but I don't remember where they were in relation to the other rooms, therefore I don't know where to put them in the map. I also remember a second floor in one of the buildings, but I'm not sure where the stairs were. Do you think it'd be a bad idea to use it as a memory palace considering how hazy my memory of it is? I think it's got a decent size, but since I don't remember the details, it'll probably boil down to 13 rooms or so. There's also the fact that I don't have particularly good memories in there. I don't know if that might hinder the process or if it'd make it easier to memorize. My next school I remember in much more detail and I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to split it in smaller palaces since it was at least 10x bigger than my first school.

[@alexisguerrero7551]

How are your study in hermeticism, I found it fascinating when i began to study it. I figured memory palaces as just a data base or relational database.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

The Memory Palace is not unlike a database in some ways. But it's not static. I'd say it's more like an information percolator. As for hermeticism... more to come eventually.

[@alexisguerrero7551]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM nice

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Are you doing anything with hermeticism yourself?

[@alexisguerrero7551]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM So far from what I have studied coincide with yoga and golden dawn although golden dawn does takes aspects of hermeticism but from my flipnote answer its to become a better version of your self.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Yes, that's basically my conclusion too.

[@tornavida4397]

The thing is that how can I remember the exact information from my memory palace that is in the some point in my memory palace. Do I have to always follow that path form the beginning to remember the exact info i need at the moment? Because this way it takes long time to remember.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I don't know enough about everything you're doing, but make sure you are using these technique very specifically: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHTXmXiVg8ajoMk

[@ademmcadem2163]

Hi . I am new in this field I was able to memorize a few pages in less than five minutes. It was the most wonderful five minutes of my life, because I was unable to complete one page in five minutes, even if I was in the best of my ability to memorize. But I face difficulties in performing it every time and I do not know how to add it in other areas, so I ask you for advice and guidance

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Happy to help. Please say more about what you mean and we’ll take it from there. 🙏

[@ademmcadem2163]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM 1- I find it difficult to visualize what I want to memorize and create interaction with places of memory palace 2- I find it difficult to expand the amount of information that I want to save when linking it to one place in the memory palace. Or is it not possible to link a large amount of information to one place inside the memory palace? 3- I have my room, I rely on it as a memory palace. I chose 10 different big things as places inside the memory palace, and when I want to save something, I try to link what I want to save to the place of memory, for example, number one, which is my desktop computer. I imagine things that interact with my computer and these things are either the same meaning or close From the meaning or has the same pronunciation or has the same form as what I want to memorize. Is my method correct? And thank you for the reply❤❤

[@saeedrezaamanat8490]

I just started memory palace, and I think I have one problem: I use my home as a memory palace and I decided to start from the yard of house. I memoried some bunch of information and it did work. So I wanted to memorise some other information from my memory palace again (starting from my yard), but what if I use my yard over and over again? Should I start from a new point?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Here’s a tutorial on that for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i57XXpyko6Zgq5o

[@saeedrezaamanat8490]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM wow this was exactly want I needed! Thank you so much

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Glad it hit the spot. Thanks for letting me know!

[@MOSDEFemcees]

Hey Anthony, appreciate the info! Do you have any videos on "The New Art of Memory"? I've looked and didn't see any. I've been reading and it's very seductive and confusing

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for asking about this. I do, and there's an entire playlist about it. This is the first part: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWSqeJaFaqiraas

[@MOSDEFemcees]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM "The New Art of Memory" Gregor Von Feinaigle?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Ah... is this the work edited by John Millard?

[@MOSDEFemcees]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Not sure who edited it but the full title is "The new art of memory, founded upon the principles taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle:" Basically he states to divide the floor of a room into nine squares and do the same with the walls. The walls get an extra square on top. He then fills these squares with pictures that resemble the number of the square. He associates what he wants to remember with the image in the square. What intrigues me is that the layout will always be the same no matter which room you are in (same with the "Vaughn Cube"). Also let's say you have an old memory Palace (ex. Child hood home) where some of the rooms are vivid but some are vague. You could possibly use this technique with the vague rooms.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

There are times when having the same layout is useful, but when I use that approach, I do it much more simply than what you're describing and simpler yet than the Vaughn Cube. I find that all such approaches are self-interfering with my long memorization projects. But you're right that if a room is vague, these are go-to approaches that make their vagueness irrelevant.

[@pauljamesleecryptocurrency9088]

Thanks Anthony. I was doing it all wrong! 😆

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Glad If I can help! 🙏 What have you been memorizing?

[@cashiro]

BTW, I having trouble making memory palaces. I think I have watched and commented some ( a lot )of your videos and I havent said this... The fact that i'm a spanish native speaker makes a barrier in my brain ( I dont know if that makes sense). I feel like the exaples you gave are great but i dont know how to translate them in an usefull way. Besides, I'm making a PHD in chemical engineer, so the things I want to remember are a little more abstract and complicated (at least at first). Any advice on that?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for sharing this background. The first thing I would ask is: How specifically are you making your Memory Palaces? I have no idea how being a Spanish native speaker would play a role in spatial memory, but I suppose it's possible. We'll be tackling the problem of abstraction very soon in a future video. For now, if you have your Magnetic Imagery assigned correctly, nothing will ever be abstract again.

[@thekingdomofelohim]

Why 26? I'm not sure the reason for that. I don't know how many memory journeys I have. Right now I'm building them in sections of 50 images. Often I forget to review the palace later.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great question. I have a video which addresses it in full here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZKmhnmGrpydZqs Does this way of looking at the suggestion help you out?

[@jsihavealotofplaylists]

Starting with a memory bedroom.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great place to start. My first Memory Palace started in a bedroom too.

[@medstamil3419]

How many memory palace u have?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Hundreds developed, billions held in potential. You?

[@medstamil3419]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I have fifty memory palace...

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Awesome!

[@subashn2973]

Sir ,I am from India ,studying for competitive exam it has vast amount of information to remember , I don't have enough memory palace to store everything. what should I do? please help me

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Is there a reason you don't create more Memory Palaces?

[@subashn2973]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM yes

[@subashn2973]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I don't visit more places

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

By choice?