Aristotle's Nuclear Alphabet & Bi-Directional Memory Palace Mastery | Ancient Memory Techniques

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Like deep dives into the ancient art of memory? Check out more on Yates and Giordano Bruno in this detailed study next: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWSqeJaFaqiraas And stay tuned for part two of the New Art of Memory, which will be about St. Hugh of Victor and his Mystic Ark Memory Palace. It is intense!

[@nuneza73]

So this is a LPO - location, person, object list. In programming terms it’s a known as a multi-dimentional array or 3-dimensional array. My question is can I use the bestiary I created as a peg list for the P or is it better to use people?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

@@nuneza73 "Better" is really something each person needs to find through experimentation. If information science is correct, there's a downward pressure on just how many possible variations that are available. Ultimately, I've identified over 30 encoding paradigms, but there's some recursion amongst them, so the exact number is up to the user. Many of us default to perhaps 3-5 of them or less as the main encoding parameters, diving into the others only when needed.

[@privatemarketpros]

Danke schon Anthony. Such great information all the time. You give so much and are appreciated. Gratitude.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Many thanks! 🙏

[@AnthonyEnglish]

One great lesson for me here is that once you build your memory palace, you can really jump in at the middle. instead of having to start from the beginning in the exact order you first learned the things you’re remembering.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Aristotle was a genius on that front. I’m working now on getting the text I suspect he might have got that idea from. 🙏

[@nikkifulton]

Great work Anthony, Robie’s memory has exploded since he started coaching with you.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

That’s great news! Thanks for hanging out for the premiere and commenting!

[@Renee-Heal-The-Eagle]

I had a session of coaching and my notes from it were life changing.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

That was indeed a great session, Renee. Let's do a follow-up if you have time. It would be great to hear your thoughts on the Flyboy experience too. Thanks as always for your support and hope to talk soon!

[@messer-2498]

Excellent work brother! Not only will I never forget where "G" is on the piano, but you've--once again--added to my memory tools. Love the new style of video. Love your book, Victorious Mind. Keep up the great work!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Many thanks! 🙏 By the way, is your screen name a reference to Mackie Messer or that German word as such?

[@messer-2498]

@Anthony Metivier yes sir, it's German. An old call sign. :)

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Danke sehr. Do they use it in the phonetic alphabet? Or is that something else?

[@robjfulton]

LETS DO IT !!!! looking forward to it!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

See you soon!

[@jeffreyallanmiller2646]

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and the fruits of your labor.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

My pleasure and thank so much for giving it a view and commenting. Any topics that you're studying and memorizing lately?

[@nkalinap]

Wonderful video, each video I watch gives me better grasp of your practice. I appreciate the improved production value as well. Thank you for your dedication and willingness to share.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for checking it out and for your feedback. Any points that you would like to see covered in more detail in future installments?

[@RobertSpiller]

Anthony...good morning or good afternoon. This video here, I'm going to have to look at it a few more times, because it completely went over my head. Thanks for sharing.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks, Robert. As I said in the video, it would have went over my head too if I hadn't thought about it and ran some experiments. Taking action is really important with mnemonics, and all the more so these kinds of advanced possibilities.

[@MartinFaulks]

This is fantastic. So inspiring!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much, Martin. I'll be getting back into this series soon and will have the Lewis Masonic Fludd edition to refer to thank to your great work.

[@stephenlashley6313]

Yes you are definitely on to something that will keep the species alive! This area spills into Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science and Biology. Since I was 15 I seemed to have followed a parallel path of Greek thinkers and have a really deep understanding of all human artifacts. This is the right topic to follow.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for saying so. There's so much to explore in the ancient tradition and I look forward to digging deeper into it. Any particular Greek texts that have really stood out for you?

[@finalcut302]

Amazing video. After using Obsidian for some time as a note-taking tool, I've become fascinated by its bi-directional note-taking strategy. Your video has inspired me to construct a memory palace that mirrors this approach, but uses hashtag topics rather than the alphabet. Like a hashtag system for thoughts, I plan to create a memory palace for each of my primary areas of interest and toss ideas into them to discover their interconnections. But i believe for something like this to function you would need to have a vast vocabulary already represented symbolically; as that would make it possible to detect connections that were previously invisible. I wonder what you think of this kind of approach Anthony

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

In some sense, that's what we mnemonists are doing: developing a "Magnetic" vocabulary that works like hashtags or hyperlinks. But in this case, it's not merely a vocabulary of words. It's a multi-sensory vocabulary that includes concepts for which there isn't even a language. This is what I mean by the "luminous detail," which will come up again in part two: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKeWiIaGZstnr5I The best part is that it does more than make it possible to detect deep connections. It starts to just bring the connections to you without having to do anything. This is what I call in the MMM Masterclass the "Rhizomatic Effect."

[@edgarsanchez5479]

Wow I feel like I already experience this on some level without having created many memory palaces (I’m just getting started with your work) I believe that my memory has always been great because I believe I naturally make networks associations between ideas so I’m excited to create memory palaces to organize my knowledge even more and make my memory even more powerful!

[@ChristopherMacor]

Great video Anthony! I'll be getting in touch with an inspiration from this.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@billholt8792]

I love all aspects of this thank you Dr. Anthony GB

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for checking it out, Bill. Great to hear from you! How are things going lately?

[@billholt8792]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Really well I continue with your course I have done the Poetry Deck of Cards, and am utilizing it so much in my own retired business promotions and at my podcasts. Thanks for waking me up along the way with what has been dormant within me for so long. Talk soon. Lets get you back on the show , Maybe after April into May Peace GB

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Great that you're using the techniques. Yes, let's record again. That would be fun!

[@edgarsanchez5479]

This is really great Anthony, and I absolutely love the concept but I believe that since stories (which we can create ourselves with AI now) can also create strong and familiar associations with the places, figures, and objects that we use in them, we can actually use any archetypes for the nuclear alphabet that we desire no matter how unfamiliar it may seem to us at first. I could be wrong about this since I don’t have much experience with memory palaces yet but I do believe symbols and archetypes are very powerful in imprinting vibrational energies and meanings into our subconscious mind since the language of the subconscious mind is stories archetypes and symbols. For this reason, I believe that it is important that we “carefully” choose the archetypes and symbols that we use in our nuclear alphabet or memory palaces for that matter so that they resonate with empowering, loving, wise, and healthy energies for our personal well being because otherwise I believe we could get sick or ill without really knowing why. I believe this from a Jungian, Shamanic, and Platonic Perspective in the sense the “World of Forms”, “The Spirit World” “The World of Archetypes” “The Imagination” “The Collective Unconscious” are all concepts relating to the realities that exist beyond our physical matter reality yet are not only intricately woven into our physical matter reality but are also the “dynamic blueprint” for the manifestation of the things that happen in our physical matter reality in our health and in other areas and events in our lives. This is part of the reason why I believe Narrative Magic such as Hyper Sigils can be so powerful in manifesting profound changes in our reality. I choose to create a Nuclear Alphabet that reflects this understanding that I have and I will use Chat GPT to help me with all of it! Writing is so tedious these days and we have AI technology now to help us make memory palaces that I believe can be Even More magnetic than how you teach and also help us create them much more quickly! 😁🙌🏼

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for this and it's possible AI can help. Here's a video I made documenting one of my own experiments with that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5zZgJxrdrmViKM

[@kennbrown]

I don’t get what you mean by “figures” aren’t they just objects, too?

[@kennbrown]

I found the answer

[@Original_Lurke_fromthe_Unknown]

Anthony, I was hoping you’d get around to what I’ve been trying to do in regards to music. This IS really helpful. Now I can take this concept and so to speak “run with it.”

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

More to music will surely come. Please stayed "tuned"! ;-)

[@Original_Lurke_fromthe_Unknown]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I’ve been a follower of you since I’m not sure when. But now I can develop my own memory palace of “Keys”🎹🎧. Just have to come up with words for the keys.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

That memory project will be a lot of fun. I use: Al Pacino Bob (from What About Bob? so also Bill Murray) Cookie Monster Dracula Ernie (from Sesame Street) Foucault Grover Hammer for flats, knives for sharps. A fun collection!

[@AjitSingh-xd1yt]

Superb Anthony

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@ARK99999]

Very interesting material. You do mention Homer's Trojan Horse passage in the Iliad; I don't recall any Trojan Horse material in the "Iliad," which ends before the Trojan War ends. I think there's a brief reference to the horse in the "Odyssey," and the longer version of the story we're familiar with is from Vergil's "Aeneid." I look forward to checking out more of your videos.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I always thought Marlow was referring to the final appearance of Helen in the Iliad: "They all look at me and shudder with disgust." Hence I thought that was why he was asking the question, "Is this the face..." I didn't mention that in this video's scripting, but I clearly got it messed up nonetheless. Thanks for pointing it. Just one more great thing about the Internet! :-)

[@thistlebeth]

Fantastic! Thank you.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@Renee-Heal-The-Eagle]

Hello I love this video. I'm going back to school this fall to study biology, neuroscience in particular. This is helpful beyond words. But your detective novel is life changing...FlyBoy.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Glad the detective novel has that much juice in it. Hope to hear more sometime so I can make sure the follow-up stories also have power in them!

[@marioschristodoulou5780]

Hello. How are you? I am amazed by your videos. My name is Marios and I want to ask you some practical ways to read and remember what I am reading about without going back and spending more time. Some practical techniques to remember everything . Thank you for this video.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for your post. The most practical approach I'm aware of starts with mastering the Memory Palace technique. Here's a place to start with that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/omaQiqWQndqXhrc

[@coach3348]

Just read your e-mail, I think that writing ancient information about memory into a book one of these days, adding some exercises at the end of each chapter (simlar to The Memory Code but with more exercises), woud be great. I remember an old podcast about aborigenal Australian Aboriginal method vs Memory Palace, Any new insights about it?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for this and for your support as always. My main new insight is that more live teaching of memory is the key, both one-on-one and as a group. The art of memory is inherently an oral tradition, but with the twist that it's also completely individual-based at the same time. Like the study of music, which is why I used the piano metaphor to such an extent in this video.

[@peakperformance6117]

Any book you recommend on associatitive imagery ?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

On the Composition of Images by Giordano Bruno is a must. If it seems like people like this new series, I'll eventually do a deep dive into it. Beyond that, the only book I'm aware of that has a lot of attention to detail in terms of both theory and example is The Victorious Mind. If anything, it has too many examples.

[@henryspragge]

Is there any relevance to the fact that aristotle's given example had the words linked by some sort of common quality (perhaps using his 'categories'). For instance, milk shares the quality of white, white might be seen as connected to air (not the sky), air with it's humidity is similar to wet, and wet is the greek temperamental classification of autumn (wet/cold). Is this how one creates one order versus another order? And also is this what allows one to move forward and backwards, since they have a relation to each of the words on each side?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Yes, category is an important part of ars combinatoria and it's likely Aristotle influenced it. I'm not sure we could 100% link it to him because he's not alone in using category as a philosopher. If anything, he and Plato would have been influenced in using it as a mental/philosophical tool from the Pre-Socratics.

[@henryspragge]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I see, that makes sense. Thank you

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

My pleasure. I should add that it's quite possible they also communed with philosophers from other traditions as well. Category is also an important concept in the Vedas, for example.

[@Kglickaaackr]

What do you think about, instead of creating 1 associative image for each number from 0 to 99, you create 2 images for the numbers 0 to 9, a creature for the tens and an object for the singles. For example the number 1 is both a duck and a magic wand and 2 is both a walrus and a stereo. So 12 makes a duck listening to a stereo and 21 makes a walrus using a magic wand. Now you only have to memorize 20 images, or is there too much risk for confusion?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Your idea is reflected in Fludd but never seems to have caught on compared to the standard 00-99 PAO. Consonant category in this caae creates a sound aid that avoids visual duplicity.

[@jcaz73]

Hi Anthony, a question if you don't mind. While watching the video, I assumed that each person, place, and object would start with the letter we're working with. Your example seemed to start that way (person= Axl) but then the place for Axl was (b=bedroom). Is only the person linked to the letter?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I'm very sorry. Which part made it seem that Axl was connected to a bedroom? The written sheet was just an example of the character part, but no particular location was shown. I'll strive to make this clearer in the second video in this series, but for now, the goal is to have Person, Action, Object setup per letter and I haven't yet talked about alphabetically encoded Memory Palaces as such. This was just hinting at how alphabets can be distributed within them. Until the next video in this series emerges, does this response help in any way?

[@jcaz73]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM No worries! After you mentioned Axl, you said something to the effect "now think of a location where you heard G n R. It could be a bedroom, a bus, or a stadium..." so I thought that was the location which we would "assign" to Axl. Perhaps I should wait until the next video! I love it so far!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Ah yes, now I see what you mean. That doesn't have to be a bedroom or a stadium or any place that starts with A. At least not in the beginning. It certainly can be connected to a place that starts with A and that place can be a bedroom. But we're not there yet in this series. Please stand by (or take the course on my site for an exercise around this.)

[@danielmcpherson9062]

​@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Apologies but I'm pressed for time as I'm writing this so I can't go back and check if you mentioned, but the course you mentioned, would that be the Memory Improvement Kit or the Magnetic Memory Method course?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

If you're pressed for time, then I would suggest diving directly into the full program. Most people can complete the core training in 2-5 hours. This is not my opinion, but the data that I’ve received over the years from our most successful course participants. The core training involves: 1. The Start Here page (video 2 is especially important) 2. The Masterplan - including the MP3s at the end for the time recommended 3. The Exercises page 4. The Study guide for what to complete next based on your goals 5. The FAQ page There are other courses to complete, and each one requires about 2 hours or so. In terms of daily practice, you really don’t need more than 15 minutes, and not even daily. But it's different for learning goals and everything depends on how fast you want to progress. I passed level III in Mandarin (without completing levels I and II) in just 15 minutes a day of acquiring vocab and phrases, for example. The rest is just making sure to hear and speak the language as often as possible. Others may need more time for a case example like this, but it's hard to imagine getting anywhere with less time. Hope this helps!

[@OkapiNothlit]

I am sort of confused by this video. Does the nuclear alphabet represent the series of stations in a memory palace/memory wheel? Which you can change the order of during recall? I am not familiar with Aristotle or music so I just wanted to confirm.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Each station can represent a number or not. I believe Aristotle probably had both a letter and a number bidirectionally and it was more common back them to know t the number of a letter of the alphabet automatically. I don’t know that you would ever want to change the order during recall, except to help speed the passage into long term memory. When recalling memorized information, the point of these techniques is direct access, not fiddling around with Memory Palaces. Please see the later video in this seres on spaced repetition for more on that. 🙏

[@Healitall]

Looked for Flyboy in audiobook form and could not find it. Please consider making it a audiobook too. thank you.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

The audiobook has always been available. Please search my site or shoot me an email for the link. 🙏

[@christianloranger9559]

Great Vidéo !!

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for checking it out and great to hear from you again! How have you been?

[@christianloranger9559]

Fine! thanks for asking. Recently I had fun memorizing the 99 names of Allah ( I'm not affiliated with Islam btw), but now I don't know what to learn next. Any idea?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

It's hard to say, but you could probably get some solid ideas from completing the Vision Statement exercise I shared here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3fdZGR-pbueoJI I use this a few times a year and it works really well.

[@christianloranger9559]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Thanks !!

[@Ratnoseterry]

This is the third reference to containing thoughts on wax tablets in the mind ive heard in 3 days. The other two were in a greek play, ill have to update with the name and author, and Plato, who is of course Aristotles' teacher.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@johnryan4104]

Thank you very much for sharing 🎶💜☯️🎯

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

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[@Davlavi]

Looks interesting.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Hope you will enjoy and find the ideas useful.

[@rudradhyani8090]

So about the exercise that you told us to do Will this work for the letter p Piper(a game character) , pipebomb(object),pineapple house(a house made of pineapple just from my imagination)

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Experiment, and find out. That’s the path to memory 💪.

[@jun神]

Do you have any exercises you can give me to improve my prospective memory and working memory?I want to improve prospective memory to increase my chances of regained awareness lucid dreams.I want to improve my working memory for maintained awareness dreams.btw I’ve done your free course and made 4 memory palaces so far for French phrases,been lucid dreaming for maybe two years,anything else you want to know I’ll tell you.I also have some more questions I wanna ask,thanks.😁

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

The main exercise that will help with prospective is to build and use a Magnetic Calendar. This is covered in my full numbers course. Technically, all use of mnemonics exercises your working memory, but drills with names, numbers and vocabulary in Memory Palaces with the timer on are recommended. I look forward to the rest of your questions.

[@vouserdelegado]

Are you the person who used to have a Course called GMS?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

No, that was not me.

[@focus4683]

Today mon,30 October Last time I didn't finish what I start in memory palace, So am back to start new and learn what is to unlearn 😅to learn. Free dive 😉😁 I have 💡 idea and recommendations can you make video of memories palace called, work journey or road to work, As we go work every day taking the same road to work or anywhere. No sure if you made a video already let me know.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Pretty much all of these topics have been covered on the channel. I would suggest going to my site for the exclusive training videos there for more. Enjoy getting back to mastering your memory and just shout out if you have further questions along the way.

[@iam4094]

hello Anthony! I am new here , i am struggling with a problem. I have been doing self enquiry to emptying my mind from all thoughts and feelings, so my question is that if i do not want this mind palace's information at a time , will this information keep popping into my mind?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

If unwanted thoughts and memories arise on my own nondual path of self inquiry, here's my go-to strategy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oafXip2ap86Gpq8 That is pretty much all I've needed thus far when it comes to issues like these.

[@iam4094]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM means mind palace will not be a problem in my practice of enquiry? Is it Anthony?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

No, that's not what I'm saying. No one can predict the future, so what I'm suggesting is that you equip yourselves with tools that help you navigate the unknown should things you don't want to happen. This is a realistic approach that is often scrubbed out of spiritual teachings by charlatans. But if you study "real deal" teachers of self-inquiry, what I'm saying is what they are usually teaching. They are less popular because the market prefers the fake to the real. Focus on the real and the realistic and you will avoid leading yourself into the prisons you're trying to avoid. Does this way of looking at things help you out?

[@iam4094]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thanks I just wanted to create a mind palace because of my study. In my self enquiry I asked myself "Who i am" and if a thought pop up then I ask myself again “To whom do they arise?" By this i came back to the source ( true self ). This is a similar method like yours.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Yes, I practiced that a lot. Ultimately, I found adding the questions I shared in my TEDx talk made my progress even faster.

[@peakperformance6117]

I recently saw a cut out clip from some podcast Elon Musk had been to. And he was saying, the same things that you teach and work with. He was saying that our brains are designed to forget things , the only best way to make information stick is to, make it interesting ( associative imagery). So it is clear that best of the best are using these techniques but I think it eventually comes down to processing speed of mind.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Yes, I’ve long thought that some people use these techniques naturally, or have arrived at them merely by thinking about the nature of information. For myself, I had to learn the techniques. Within them and through them, I have found entirely new ways of thinking about and dealing with all kinds if information in more satisfying and useful ways.

[@EljinRIP]

I'm so confused as to what this video even means. How is the nuc!ear alphabet used to remember things? So I want to remember "mitochondria", how do I sue this alphabet method to memories that word? I'm so confused.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Sorry that you are confused. Did you happen to take notes? There are several examples of how it works in the video. Indeed, although mitochondria isn't in the video as an example, something relatively close to this word is covered. Note also that the video includes a detailed homework exercise. Without completing such exercises, it would have been very difficult for me to learn these techniques. I had to come up with exercises for myself based on the ancient memory books I was reading because the memory competitor teachings only work for short term outcomes. But if you find what I'm saying not effective, you may want to go through their materials first, then come to what I'm talking about for more robust applications. The same suggestion (actually, it's a kind law) applies: Take notes, take action and you will get results. And it's possible multiple readings, viewings may be necessary. Heck, I reread Aristotle just to make this video and I noticed things I hadn't noticed the first time. And that's what advanced learning is all about. Does this way of looking at things help you out?

[@kennbrown]

I did the exercise A to Z with a place, person, object in my journal - What do I do next?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

The next steps depend, but typically one identifies a learning goal and then applies the techniques to developing long term retention to the information required to complete the goal.

[@kennbrown]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM OK, I’ll just keep the list in my journal like this: Alaska, Aristotle, Apple; Boston, A.G. Bell, Bell; Calif., Charlie Brown, Cone; Dugout, Dumbo, Donut, etc… Until I find something to learn that is alphbetically related so I can go backward and forward from any part of it like you suggest in the video. Should I work on memorizing the representations I came up with?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

You can memorize those representations. Or you can use the Magnetic Memory Method, which makes memorizing our mnemonic tools completely unnecessary. Even better: by having the kind of learning goal I suggest, the systems because self-developing and self-reinforcing due to basing our choices on what is already in memory. But there are other paths and the beautiful thing is that each of us gets to choose and make they journey our own through dedicated study and practice of the tradition.

[@kennbrown]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM So, what’s the point of the alphabetic place, figure, object exercise? I’m struggling here to find something to latch on to.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Without a stated learning goal so you can start to experiment with applying, this struggle may continue. I don't see a stated learning goal yet in our conversation thread so far. If for any reason, you'd rather keep your learning goal private, self-study will be even more important than usual. It is more than possible to figure this out on your own. But explaining it more explicitly than I already have in many books, courses and countless free videos does require more information from some people. I'm not sure why reality works in such a way that some people instantly understand this and why some do not, but that's the way it seems to work. My comments and email inbox and live classes are packed with this strange division each and every day, along with those who teach music, chess, martial arts, debate, etc. It's just the way it goes. Feel free to supply more information and I'll do all I can to explain this further. But the goal is what you latch onto and that's why and how the alphabetical method works. I have seen nothing that is an exception to this rule, not even the goal of memorizing abstract cloud patterns when I was the commentator at the 2023 Pan American Open Memory Competition.

[@1invag]

Huh you could use this to understand an emotional memory palace also possibly. And use it to map and then navigate an emotional landscape. When you think about it a word is a memory palace already in of themselves. A sentence a greater order one, a paragraph, a chapter. A geometry of meaning. You could apply this to anything. It's relationship. Everythings connected

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Indeed, each word and even each letter can be a Memory Palace unto itself.

[@mr.pickitt5426]

Hi Anthony, this is a fantastic video. I love it! I find it to be extremely rich in information. I am a daily practicioner of the magnetic memory method for quite some time now, but I never get tired of watching your videos. They motivate me and they always contain information that is news to me. This video is relatively short, but so rich in detail that I will want to watch it again for at least another time and repeated in some places. Also, I love your references to music. Being a (serious) hobby musician myself, I totally dig them. In one of your YT shorts (I believe) you asked whether we would like to see more music related videos from you, and from me there is a resounding "Yes". Thanks again for this great video, it's a real treat.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much for checking this one out and for your feedback. It's great to hear from you! Yes, this is part of the music direction I want to start developing. I'm still thinking about how to best do the music part. My current studio is kind of limited when it comes to being able to have an entire guitar on the screen. But one way or another, the work and experimentation carries on and we'll get there. Thank you so much for your support and I look forward to your future comments as time and memory allow! :-)

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

sir..can I put objects to location in form of stories..instead of images?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

How is an object not an image? 🙏

[@HasturYellowSign]

You could make ANKI decks from this after creating it. Have a picture on the front and place, figure, and object on the back.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

One could do that, but it would not be using the art of memory.

[@HasturYellowSign]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM it’s good help for adding them to the museum. I wish more museums had 3D walkthroughs on Google Earth. I use the Dallas Museum of Art as it’s close by.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Definitely use all things that work. I can only encourage radical honesty that these things are indeed working. Many who come to me don't actually have goals based on vision, so activity winds up being confused with accomplishment. But when an individual is genuinely happy with their accomplishment, then by all means, Anki and graphics of every kind. I never mean to make the historical fallacy that things were somehow "better" before technology. We would only be remiss to miss the old St. Hugh of Victor's ancient and bookish reminder that omnium expetendorum prima est sapientia. Important and worth remember in all times. (So far)

[@HasturYellowSign]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I agree that without a stated goal using an ANKI deck isn’t very useful. You won’t enjoy it which is the death knell for such tools. Or even if you do the technique the pre-tech way with a schedule and large blank notecards that you draw on. But for things like an alphabet, the 12 Olympians, et al. It’s helpful as long as you are the one creating the deck, sourcing the pictures, et al. Too many people try and use pre-made decks which have zero personal investment.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Yes, personal investment is key. Or better said, personalization as investment and variety. This is what the science of active recall shows us.

[@tashi9100]

Hi Anthony. I'm a medical student. I am new to this channel. My desire is to improve my memory, as a lot of stuff has to be retained in college. And I always had the fear of forgetting what i learn. So its important for me to improve my memory and become more confident of myself. I dont know from where to start watching the videos. Can you guide me please ...

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks so much, Tashi. All my videos invite you to take the free course on my Magnetic Memory Method home page. Each video links to it directly. See you there!

[@beboboy1999]

i hope you can make your videos more focused on the methods not the history of every method because i get overwhelmed by the amount of history and books and authors names. If it is possible to mention them all together at the end of the video or in the discerption. I am not a native English speaker and sometimes i get lost in the stories you tell inside explaining the actual methods. i hope not to take my comment negatively.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I have hundreds of videos just like you describe. 🙏

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

sur..please make a video on how to connect more than 1 word on a single location

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Are you currently able to reliably memorize one word per station? If so, how many?

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM sir i have a huge assignment for that i have to memorize more than 1 word per location

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for sharing the context. But the question remains: Have you established the ability to reliably memorize one word per station? If so, how many words have you memorized in your current Memory Palace Network?

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM yes sir..1 word per location is easy but i am still memorizing new words for my exams..for which I required more than 1 words per location

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

What is the exam that requires this?

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

sir how to put 15 -20 images per location?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

What’s the target information? I usually only do that amount for verbatim speeches, and not all sentences in them.

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM15 -20 random words?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

For 15-20 random words, I'd suggest learning a traditional Memory Palace and start with one at a time. If this is for a memory competition, the IAMWMC has free software you can train with, though the word pool does get repetitive fast.

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

sir...how to memorize a new mind palace?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for this question, Talha. Overall, I teach the Memory Palace technique. It is called this because the locations are *already* in memory. I strongly believe that memorizing a location for use as a Mind Palace is missing the point of this particular skill. But if you wanted to do that, you could pay special attention to the location and add associations that help you remember it. Usually, just paying more attention to space helps. Again, however, this is generally adding an unnecessary step. People typically have countless locations they could be using, and there are exercises that help them discover this wealth. Please let me now if you have any further questions around this.

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM ok thanks sir

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

My pleasure. Please let me know if you have further questions.

[@parthifinearts5595]

Everything is perfect information and one Correction. Aristotle was not the creator of first university. Before some hundred years of Aristotle Naalantha University was the first one in Ancient Inida where Greek, Latin and now so called Grown Countries Learnt everything and Duplicated the system in their countries. Without Indian Foot Prints Nothing in this World. I am not arrogantly saying this, I am proudly saying and respect your views. All The Best.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

🙏

[@talhazulfiqar9376]

sir...how to put whole paragraph in one location?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Please see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmrElqOAmL5sf6s

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏

[@shariarshuvo]

Fatima al-Fihri Founded the first university. Aristotle had a school of thought. Please correct me if It's wrong.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

You could be right about the dates, but I think it's totally fair to call Aristotle's Lyceum a university. It was certainly more "universally" open than the Pythagorean University of Krotona.

[@shariarshuvo]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM argument accepted ,👍

[@said.skopal]

Believe me one thing.Its something that even Aristotel won't tell you that he is alive.You can't compare the methods of learning and memorizing now and then. Now the brain rests with the wealth of the Internet. The more that wealth and offer comes to the brain, the less willing it is to remember the boring black and white lines that make up the sentences and words that it needs to let's remember.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

If Aristotle was alive now, wouldn't he ask you to justify the idea that black and white lines are boring? Boring to whom? The person who dares to speak for the entire species?

[@jameskellam2980]

Alphabet, location, figure, object. What do you mean by figure? A number? A person? Isnt a figure an object? This video is a little confusing to me. I will have to try watching it again.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

In this case a figure is a person. The concept of the Luminous Detail will evade, if not confuse, perpetually without doing the exercises. That’s why I included the same ones I completed in this video. 🙏

[@jameskellam2980]

Thank you.

[@kokikokic9874]

How can you make such a long video, and not explain clearly just simply how to do this? I really care about this and want to learn, but I re watch every 15 seconds over and over 5 times, and try to understand what did I miss because the examples are not clear and straight forward. Like "you do A, then B, then C, link to D, go over to E, done". I was replaying this video for almost an hour, trying to find where did I miss where you explain how exactly step by step to make these places in the memory palace reference other places, with a simple clear example... so I can just go "ok, and go do it and practice".. instead I'm frustrated trying to figure out did you even explain it, and if you did, where... I apologize for being so critical, I just feel I didn't find the actual action steps I was trying hard to find here.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thanks for your questions. A few answers: 1) I can make content like this because I’ve built an audience familiar with the Memory Palace technique and who appreciate this kind of analysis. I believe you’ll find that other comments bear this observation out - these come from people who like you and I care about this tradition. 2) There are specific steps that I have suggested in this video. I have heard from many people via email who have completed them. I apologize if you missed them. Over hundreds of videos, and after nearly a decade of teaching at three universities in three countries and two languages, I have no explanation for why the steps are clear and evident to some and not to others. To my knowledge, pedagogy has never solved this problem. I’m aware of the literature about it and await some theorist to suggest something that makes a difference. All I can suggest is that people look at my 700+ videos on this channel and understand that it’s not for a lack of trying on my part. I wish you great success and if you follow the steps in this and my other videos, I’d love to see your homework. I receive homework from people every single day and share it in many of my videos. 🙏

[@ThihaLinn-b9c]

Anthony, why don't you learn a programming language(whether it is JavaScript or Java) and tell us about your learning experience?

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Because I do not learn skills I will never use. Is there a reason you don’t do it?

[@ThihaLinn-b9c]

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM because I do not have expertise in mnemonic as much as you do and doing so might be helpful for a lot of audience in your channel.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

What would be more helpful is people learning to use mnemonics and then applying it to their desired learning outcome. Me doing something I'm not interested in would be a waste, project poor energy and violate the beauty of the mnemonic tradition. So I would humbly suggest just buckling down and learning the techniques. Then apply them yourself to learning a programming language, and if you feel called to do so, start your own channel all about it. Doesn't that sound like a more authentic and genuine path to helping people interested in programming?

[@ThihaLinn-b9c]

True. I am going to give it a try. But experience with learning programming with mnemonic is not remarkable (maybe, I made mistakes along the learning process).

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Awesome - you could be the next great memory teacher! Thanks for considering what I believe to be the truer path and power to you!

[@theeng1982]

Can you make a shorter videos

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Can you please write a longer comment explaining why specifically a shorter video would help you?

[@theeng1982]

I appreciate your efforts but most the videos have a simple idea that can be explained in 5 minutes for example, this will encourage us to watch the videos and this will increase your number viewers. You can make two versions of the same idea long video and shorter less than (5 minutes). Thank you

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

I humbly request you to prove that what I'm saying can be explained in five minutes. If you write or revise a script that adequately describes the concept, I'll consider filming it. Otherwise, I would suggest you consider this: There are even people who have complained that my 5 minute videos are too long. No amount of effort on my part will ever make this go away. So the faster and ultimately more ethically honest thing to talk about is what specifically you would like to learn. If that thing can be learned in five minutes, then chances are it already exists in a five minute format. Personally, I'm aware of precisely nothing worth learning that can be learned in five minutes. Quite the opposite, in fact. But I'm willing to reconsider, so anxiously await your five minute revision of this video and the clear and crisp condensation of the multiple moving parts this video successfully expressed for many other people. Please be sure to include all of the critical exercises in the five minute script, noting that you're welcome to spend the time not revising the script and putting your attention towards completing the exercises instead. Either path will be interesting, though I predict both of them will cause you reconsider your claim that any of this can be explained in five minutes. Thanks in the meantime for your suggestion and I look forward to your reply.

[@Jiok-cc9up]

Well the example, You shown Chrysippus. The golden horse, nany people are not familiar with the word you said. We can make it simple by imagining a simple association as seen in the word the chrys make the christ sound which can be imagined by a jesus Christ and sippus by Jesus Christ sipping me and my friend in the Christmas

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

It could work, but could also lead to a pronunciation error if not later modified. I’ll have to ask one of my friends who specializes in the language for what pronunciation would be most common. Tom Cruise sipping might be closer. 🙏

[@pheel4u]

Would you please pronounce the word "nuclear" correctly? It's not nuke-yew-ler. I assume you'd like to be taken seriously. Hint: just follow the spelling of the word.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Would you please produce your badge from the Pronunciation Police, including international accent credentials? 🤣

[@RMBittner]

Anthony, with all due respect (and I do respect you), I don’t feel your response here was worthy of you. Sure, the word “nuclear” has been mispronounced for decades, and there are some who now defend the mispronunciation as a viable alternative. Still, the vast majority of linguists/grammarians don’t yet agree with that shift. So it doesn’t seem unreasonable that someone would point it out, especially since the word is used frequently in this presentation. But rather than acknowledging your nonstandard usage, you struck back at the commentator, which seems wholly contrary to the spirit you demonstrate in so many videos.

[@AnthonyMetivierMMM]

Thank you for your comment. Actually, it's the same spirit in my videos that challenges the notion of "correct pronunciation." My usage is neither standard, nor non-standard, and it just happens to be the case that this video itself raises the pronunciation issue. Would it have been any better if I'd invited him on my podcast for Phil to say whatever he has to say about the "correct" pronunciation of this word? Then I in turn could monitor each and every syllable that comes out of his mouth, listening like a hawk for the opportunity to score a meaningless point? No, satire, dear Robert, has a place, it is in my personality and it is most certainly not beneath me. Most especially when this video made so clear how such comments about pronunciation tend to be treated.