How I memorized an entire chapter from “Moby Dick”

With memory palaces, anyone can look like a memory genius.
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I always thought I was born with a bad memory. I could never remember multiplication tables, I’m so bad with names, and I honestly couldn’t tell you what I ate for lunch two days ago. Yet I found a way to memorize an entire chapter of Moby Dick in less than four days. It turns out I was going about memorizing things all wrong.
The way most people are taught to memorize is by making flash cards and just repeating the information over and over again until it sticks. This is terribly ineffective, really frustrating, and the reason nobody can tell you what 8 times 12 is.
A much better technique is the “memory palace,” an idea that Joshua Foer explores in his book Moonwalking With Einstein. A memory palace is a mnemonic technique that allows you to more easily memorize information by creating corresponding visual images that you mentally place along a path in a familiar location.
For more info about Joshua Foer's book on memory palaces: joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-wit...
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[@The6thDimensional]

Too bad i won't remember this video later on

[@sandmastermaster]

Not A Potato tf are you then??

[@Will-np8gg]

so add it to your watch later thing like i did

[@sandmastermaster]

william Murdoch dude it's a joke.

[@sandmastermaster]

william Murdoch alright. You were just trying to help.

[@nerdowlwho]

Not A Potato

[@nebbykoo]

I memorized 65 lines of The Iliad in Greek for a test using this method. i did it in 6 hours, got the highest score on the test. So this works.

[@ThuyNguyen-rz5gy]

nebbykoo then what? can you recite them now?

[@pietrospellecchia4720]

I only know one of the first words (if not the first, I don't know) which is "Menin" that means "anger" and it is also the subject of the Iliad: Achilles's anger ;)

[@Destiny8381]

magic

[@LohJiaHung]

I did this for parts of Julius Caesar and it's been a long ass time but I can remember it clearly.

[@Ronnie7X]

Thuy Nguyen I tried method too and it worked on my test. No I can't recite what I have learned now because I ionically have forgotten it. The reason being is that I stopped re-visiting the memory palaces I made which were made specifically for the test. I'm confident that if the Palaces are revisited regularly they won't be easily forgotten. Which would be no where near as difficult as bland rote memorization.

[@Pumahh]

I wish I could remember the entire Bee Movie script

[@camerons9229]

EdenXIX are you her little...bed bug

[@spazzmaticus1542]

Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.

[@HawkmoonaMatata]

According to all known laws of aviation...

[@claudiadeleon245]

EdenXIX You could watch the movie till you know all the lines? 🙂

[@meiriversofborg]

These are winter boots

[@tsundereshark5945]

Guys, he memorized it word for word, that's why it took so long.... What people usually do when employing this technique is creating one or two images per paragraph to remember the main idea, which of course is much, much faster. I don't doubt people who say they've memorized more pages in less time than him, but I highly doubt it was word for word like he did.

[@Baerock]

Not really relevant, in my middle school and highschool years we had to memorize the definitions and explanations word by word, and it too less than 4hrs for like 90% of the subjects

[@ostrichmaster9814]

I can’t read

[@Badro29]

Maybe he should learn from the people that memorize the most memorized book in the world: the quran. Word by word by Millions from beginning to end

[@mimilune2746]

@@Badro29 my mom is trying to memorize it and struggling, I was explaining to her this method ans hoping it can help her

[@xsouleaterx10]

memory palace sounds like something from sherlock

[@gustavofernandes1370]

The last episode of season 3 of Sherlock talks about it. The series "mentalist" teaches it too. I learn it from there.

[@Elador1000]

because it was in Sherlock :D At least in the BBC series.

[@domyboji]

SmartiePants hannibal too 🍽🍽

[@JuanPablodelaTorre]

The memory palace was invented in ancient Greece. Probably by a poet called Simonides. It's not _from_ Sherlock. It is the other way around.

[@lllmvl]

oh my gosh JUST 3 MORE DAYS UNTIL SEASON 4 OF SHERLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! :D sorry lol i'm just a little excited

[@AlexPittiStockMan]

Memory Palace sounds like a Chinese restaurant

[@Chungus67]

Dude what

[@b.m.d4771]

Alex Pitti lol

[@unknow210]

good idea, someone should open a Chinese Restaurant with the name Memory Palace

[@youtubeoffical2460]

Alex Pitti follow me on instagram physic21_

[@AlexPittiStockMan]

ijeoma onyemelukwe uba why?

[@ytubeanon]

I read an interesting book called 'Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering' about the history of memory techniques and the memory championships people compete in. At the end of the book, the irony was noted that, despite winning medals, these people forget the same things in the same amounts in everyday life as the rest of us unless they completely commit to preparing mind palaces in advance for whatever it is they want to remember.

[@0tek0]

No technique is perfect, memory palaces work well for long content that needs to be known by heart and where you have at least some time to remember it. You can see it as a tool, if your exams or work require you to know a lot of stuff by heart (eg. medicine, history) this might be something to think about. But it is also an expensive tool (requires time, effort, repetition, creativity) that's maybe not so useful for other goals, where other tools and mnemonics are more appropriate (or goold old testing yourself). Also, contaminations can occur (you could mix up your palaces or mental images) and remembering is still a long way from understanding & applying.

[@dmtang01]

Basically if it works it works. Don't think anything as easy, for that's a true student learner. Right, no technique is perfect.

[@Marcus-gi4jb]

Boris R. Cuduco Dope 🔥

[@ostrichmaster9814]

Um I don’t know what u saying me reading is bad so what about donkeys

[@Crystalleyes321]

This actually works, I basically memorised 5 essays about 1200 words each (all up 6000 words) that were all cemented in my head. Through vigorous repetition it took about 1-2 hours to memorise one essay, and I did this through basically using a section of my house and assigning words to objects (similar to what he did) but more physical. After about a week the 6000 words were all in my head. The great thing about this is, you can pick up from any section of the essay/text without trouble. It helped me SO much in exams, and after the whole experimentation I was absolutely amazed at how much m e m o r y capacity your brain actually has. You can even remember certain things months after you’ve memorised them.

[@youfoundwaldo77]

Was anyone else thinking of Sherlock Holmes

[@johngreene8988]

sophie m just joking

[@immamardybum7327]

sophie m yeah I was

[@victorstanly3396]

huge nerd ,o

[@yummigummi213]

sophie m Yeppers

[@riverkelly7747]

Yeah

[@charleskuhn382]

"Hack" your memory... Stop using that word!

[@Cpcheatscpvideosify]

cravenjooooooooooooo Ed

[@ryanmurray5973]

"I cannot hack my memory. I have no axe!"

[@thorr18BEM]

When you tap into your brain's software to unlock functionality a common user wouldn't have, hacking is a pretty good term for it.

[@salo2377]

thorr18BEM you have sent a response to almost every comment I've seen

[@peaceandllov]

thorr18BEM It's a worn out term, the person is saying.

[@AnuRMusicVideos]

YES this does work, I used it to memorise all my quotes for essays in English during my final year. Also, in Chemistry class in my final year, I took about 40-50 minutes, using this technique, to remember all the cations and anions we had to memorise, and their charges (eg. Rubidium = Rb+, Nickel = Ni2+, Sulfite = SO32-). There were about 60 of these cations and anions.

[@stijndebelie2698]

Hahah of you have a table of mendeljev this is easy

[@confucheese]

The next step up is called "Roman Rooms", essentially you create the location in your head, rather than using a real location, you imagine entirely fictional areas. I use it to solve larger size Rubik's cubes blind folded, (ie. 8x8x8 cubes).

[@owengraham3211]

Frederick Abel I am looking into beginning blindsolving 3x3x3s. right now, I know LBL and am getting into 45-ish 4LLL. do you have a preferred method? I just started learning about the memorization schemes today. also, do you have any videos that might help me?

[@youtubeoffical2460]

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[@kittythecat8298]

Frederick Abel

[@kittythecat8298]

So... a mind palace, right?

[@confucheese]

Kittythecat No, similar, but different.

[@stoicfloor]

word of advice: remembering everything with memory palace won't help you if you didn't understand the material in the first hand

[@atomm7316]

Dragon377 exactly concept is very important.

[@SpaceCattttt]

In the first "place"...

[@tokyomilmil]

c'mma in our current time and age if you want to come back to anything immediately，you just look it up on your phone，web or what stored on your personal cloud. (but if you're talking about recalling things in your dream，I've got no rebuttal for this LOL)

[@arminneashrafi2846]

Thank you Christopher.

[@Gregoryzaniz]

I love the Vox staff, they're so adorable

[@martinsoendergaard-jensen9602]

YEs

[@RahulSsup]

Just the one, Joss

[@SpaceCattttt]

I'm more adorable and I don't work there.

[@zain4019]

teppolundgren Humble:)

[@ReviewTubeChannel]

3-4h a day for 4 days for 1.5 pages of text?!? Soooo useful...

[@thermiclance]

ReviewTube well, he did say he had bad memory. For you it might take way less time than him.

[@awesomeguy9573]

ReviewTube FR, I would rather copy the whole chapter over and over again

[@jacksonreis37]

ReviewTube exactly what I was thinking

[@MrVankog]

ReviewTube You are missing the point. Memory palaces are not meant to be fast. It takes much time to create vivid imagery and virtual links, that's true. The goal of it is to memorize it long term and kind of brand it into your brain. It's not effortless or particular efficient, but effective.

[@ReviewTubeChannel]

I know, but he was using too many places and too many images for not a lot of information, aside from taking a really long time to learn it. All I'm saying is that the video is misleading, like you said, memory palaces should be used to memorize stuff long term and be able to use it whenever and the video presented that amazing learning power as something used to learn 1.5 pages of text in 4 days.

[@krombopulos_michael]

Sorry, but the point was that it was supposed to be efficient. Spending 3-4 hours per day practicing for 4 days does not sound efficient. That sounds like brute force.

[@dafuzz2405]

Krombopulos Michael well maybe his example was not the greatest but it has been shown to work in other cases. The point is to link the sequence to a thought that is easy to remember.

[@BruceLeefromthegrave]

Why don't you try it yourself and see if you like the technique or not?

[@rachels6403]

Krombopulos Michael That would be about a half hour per line. That's pretty good, considering how complicated each sentence was.

[@harperl2]

Scratchyone Scratchyone Would this be a good way to learn basics for another language? I've always been bad in classes so I never learn enough

[@rachels6403]

To be honest I'm not sure, since I haven't tried it yet, but since you use pictures I would assume you could print out the pictures that symbolize the words. You could maybe even use objects in your home instead of pictures

[@CptnJCFG]

4:00 Joss being bae af

[@JuanPablodelaTorre]

Always

[@feynmans467]

Joss is love; Joss is life.

[@mk17173n]

so pretty much visual learning.

[@thorr18BEM]

mk17173n , spatial memory is a different thing than visual processing.

[@mk17173n]

its all visual processing . the best mathematicians and scientists in the world see things as pictures rather then numbers or memorization. When they studied Albert Einstein's brain the part of his brain responsible for imagination and visualizing information was more developed then regular people. He visualized scenarios using formulas and ideas. All this is doing is using tricks to bring about memorization. I always thought this was regular way of memorizing things.

[@thorr18BEM]

mk17173n , this isn't about synesthesia either. The mind palace is about leveraging spatial memory in conjunction with visual. This is because the spatial memory is powerful. Useful when wandering across the savanna trying to remember where that watering hole was you visited when you were a kid :) Elephants do that with their spatial memory, not visual, thus the "never forgets", but ours is also powerful.

[@mk17173n]

its a mind hack but it doesn't last or is useful in long term memorization.

[@krustomer]

mk17173n I'm a visual learner (at least I was told I was). Not a spatial person AT ALL.

[@poohoff]

Ammm.. it would take me two hours to memorize that chapter without any palaces.

[@judesTube]

You must be a real genius

[@poohoff]

Phoenixpi Just like all my classmates and pretty much every person I know.

[@judesTube]

poohoff Are you being sarcastic?

[@poohoff]

No, I'm not. It took the guy four days to memorize 38 sentences. Back in middle school we had to learn and recite poems of that length on a regular basis, and of course it'd always be left for the night before.

[@caligulaincarnate]

You know poems are similar to songs in that they have a rhythm, or you can easily give it one, which can definitely make it easier to remember that as opposed to a novel or a chapter. Yeah, he used it to remember a page of text, but you gotta start somewhere if it's something new to you, like he said was new to him. And everyone has different methods to remember things as well as different abilities to retain information, so perhaps this doesn't apply to you, but I'm glad you let everyone know you're better than him.

[@xbraidx]

This makes sense. I always pace around my entire house while studying for exams. now I understand why my method works so well. I can literally memorize anything in a matter of minutes to hours.

[@rednax3788]

I'm sure this would be great for learning things that you need to recall linearly (like the lines in a poem) But would it work for things you need to call off the top of your head?

[@Edgarldrago]

Gawsome No, to best recall things off the top of your head, you would need to use retrieval cues (look it up for further detail) basically, they're details that help you remember things in your long term memory. If i say, fruit, you will most likely picture/recall an apple or orange, etc

[@thorr18BEM]

Gawsome , yes. The version of this that uses a path or well known route is for linear recollection, but the version that references rooms in a palace leverages spatial memory to index the contents of the rooms. You don't go through the house linearly. You go to the room you need and look in the spot where you kept it.

[@PianistMadness]

rednax well you can create infinite ammount of rooms in your palace/memory place, the thing is how quickly can you get to then when you need them. Regardless if you need info now or later it always stays there.

[@OFFICALMENOFCULTURE]

Fastest way is to have multiple floors with an elevator. :)

[@hewhomakesnosound]

@@OFFICALMENOFCULTURE wrong, the fastest way is to just think about it and go. When you repeat the process of remembering the path enough times you intinctively know where to look. Just like you know where your desk is in your office or refrigerator at home.

[@LakesReptiles]

Anyone thinking of the mind palace from Sherlock?

[@freediugh416]

yap m8

[@Photo_Cyclist]

Warmed up my heart seeing all of you Vox editors I usually see in separate videos, now in one single room smiling at you :) Great job!

[@seop1721]

I’ve memorised blank verse and it didn’t take 3 to 4 hours every day. That sounds like a very inefficient approach imho. I use mnemonics, too, and have read extensively in such methods, though for poetry the basic approach is to first learn by rote each line. Harry Lorayne, a great memoriser, says we use mnemonics to aid the natural memory, not to replace it. Read each line, look away and repeat, then continue for every other line. Then read two lines, look away and repeat. Do the next two. Etc. Then three, etc. By the time you get to a sweep of six lines you should have it all. If that chapter is just a page and a half, I reckon I could maybe get it all in an hour. I did Shakespeare’s ‘Thrice the brinded cat had mewd’ full witches’ speech and it took about 30 minutes to memorise completely, with some testing the following day. I then like to revisit it during the week for fun and to really ingrain it. Writing it out, for ingraining the punctuation, is also recommended. (Normally I do a stanza each day, so it’s a fun process for memorising a poem or two each week, rather than a chore.) I honestly don’t need a memory palace or mnemonic after doing the above, but after the above method you can use a key image per line to fix it in mind. To be honest, the only mnemonic I use is to memorise what poems I have memorised...because the ironic thing is you can forget what poems you have stored away if you don’t place the beginning of the first line in your palace. But don’t memorise a book chapter; memorise poetry. Makes more sense. No one wants a book recited, and it’s more fun to visit poems in your mind.

[@Heroasaurus]

My palace is a studio apartment. This teqnique is classist. I can only remember small phrases.

[@meanttobe3872]

use your uni or your job or a street or what ever

[@yumisallallisyum577]

use the objects in the apartment

[@suntzu8642]

That's nothing . I memorized 5 whole books for my final exams in Greece . They basically don't want you to understand what the book says but seriously just know the books by heart. And this is what we are evaluated upon .

[@jorge666]

In my school what ever the books says doesn't matter, we're tested on meaning and other devices.

[@suntzu8642]

pbananah1 what do you mean ? In Greece ?

[@rosegush533]

Wow. That is extremely impressive. Did you do anything to help you memorize them?

[@suntzu8642]

We have an old saying in Greece. ''Repitation is the mother of learning'' if that can be translated well enough. So yeah , i kept repeting whole pages until i knew the by heart. Sometimes i linked spesific photoes that were either in the book or i was finding the on google with spesific pages too so that i could remember better where was what .Another thing . When a phrase was too complicated i used to make acronyms . Or i was reading out loud for me to hear what i should memorize later. everywere i was i carried one of those books and whenever i didnt remember something well enough i used to pick ou the book and read it again, even inside the bus. I seemed like a nerd.. I am telling you , this year was a true torture. And you want to hear the best one? I failed so have to try again this year . But now it si so much easyer... Wish me luck..

[@dmtang01]

Sounds like everyone does that, unless you have synesthesia

[@IgnatRemizov]

There's a memory championship? I never knew!

[@daisyslusher1281]

I knew about it, but I forgot.

[@JackGilbertJr]

I knew that, but I forgot.

[@Y3m3n1ah]

I need to memorize chapters of the Quran for Arabic school but my memory sucks so this better help me or else I'll be a disappointment.

[@thorr18BEM]

Yusra l , one user of this method memorized Pi to 65,536 digits, so yes you could successfully waste your time memorizing religious texts with it.

[@thorr18BEM]

Baron Sengir , haha, she gonna go bankrupt.

[@ishbhaigaming139]

Baron Sengir i dnt get paid n ive dun 3 parahs... lyf hurts... but i dnt mind tbh 🙃

[@MamboBean343]

+thorr18BEM lol 2^16 what a nerd

[@abdiganisugal825]

It's OK take it slow learn an ayah a day your memory will improve with time I'm assuming you're under 20. old age will ruin your memory so don't procrastinate lol

[@andysammy6129]

Nothing big, many muslims have memorized the entire Quran

[@nameless5053]

@Nicholas Pagano who said that's the only book they read?

[@tazehallu6099]

@Nicholas Pagano Can you memorize a chinese book which consists of over 70000 words while not speaking chinese?

[@nicholasbridgemohan]

@Nicholas Pagano well why don't you memorize an entire book that's written in your secondary language and then we'll talk. Don't hate when you can't even do it

[@humanalltoohuman]

By brute force, really. Saying the verses over and over again. Not very efficient.

[@andysammy6129]

@@humanalltoohuman that's a wild assumption probably coming out of your hate for a religion and intolerance towards people who are different to you. You sound like a very bad person to be around.

[@dantheman3850]

Memory palace? Mind palaces are cooler, cause, Sherlock.

[@tj843]

they also have more drugs

[@luisniebla5517]

Pretty shitty thing to force your co-workers to listen to you recite text.

[@unknow210]

was expecting everyone to fall a sleep at end xD

[@youtubeoffical2460]

Luis Niebla fillow me on instagram physic21_

[@isaiahcampbell7149]

LMAO

[@MrTheenDx]

"I forget somebody's name five seconds after I meet them." I have been living with my roommate for almost a week now but I can't remember his name and I'm too embarrassed to ask him his name.

[@adonisadeyemi212]

Using a slightly different method, I memorized this same text in roughly 3 hours. 1. KEYWORD IN LOCI- First, pick one keyword per line, and place them in your memory palace (as shown in the video). 2. PARAPHRASE TEST- Paraphrase each word by replacing it with another English word. Replace only verbs nouns adjectives etc. No need to paraphrase articles and prepositions like - the, and, of, they. THEN recall the real words while try looking at this (Tip: while attempting this, when you get stuck, use the FIRST LETTER TEST below as an hint, before checking the real text). 3. FIRST LETTER TEST - write out first letter initials of the text. THEN recall the real words while looking at this. 4. OFF HEAD - By now, it is very familiar and easy to recall by heart. Use the keywords in the memory palace to guide you. Practice, practice, practice. Start with something small and amaze yourself. For relatively short poems, You can even do it without the first step (ie. memory palace). Also, It works better if you put the FIRST LETTER TEST and PARAPHRASE TEST side by side ie. First line of PARAPHRASE on left side of a table, and first line of INITIALS on the right. Repeat one test till it becomes easy, before moving to the next test. Hope this helps. Cheers 🥂. Happy memorizing

[@alexfazio]

3-4 hours for 4 days to memorize two pages? It sounds like time wasting technique. I think that students who use mnemonic technic to memorize, are better for the simple reason that they put more effort to memorize compared to other students.

[@thorr18BEM]

Alexqndr , you don't think the studies he cited accounted for that? Also, he said this works for special ed students and for himself who claims to have especially bad memory.

[@thorr18BEM]

He was learning how to memorize for the first time. I think it would work much better with each use.

[@omnibnnuy]

The more you use it and get an understanding for it, the easier it gets. It's like if you're taking notes, after years of taking notes, do you find your self having a much easier time then when you first started? No one said it works for everyone, just that it does work for a good portion of people. It plays to the human's brains strengths, but is only useful if given time and effort. No one rode their bike the first day they got it.

[@LaitoChen]

People will cite whatever hack studies will back up their claim. Remember the studies that showed "brain-games" (luminosity apps) would improve memory? Until the scientific community had enough and did actual peer reviewed research with larger sample sizes? www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/ Anyway, 4 days to memorize 1 1/2 pages verbatim is borderline ineffective regardless of technique. If you work in an industry that requires such skills, editor, lawyer, etc you may have a hard time

[@thorr18BEM]

Prince Blake , works fine for lawyers. Cicero was a successful lawyer who wrote about this method in his book, in addition to his time as Consul of Rome. The efficacy of this technique has been well established in the time since then.

[@KrunoslavStifter]

I don't want to sound cynical but the truth is that memory in 2017 is highly overrated. That is why we have smarphones, evernotes and onenotes. Impress me with understanding and wisdom. Memory was valuable back in 1910 or 1819, not today.

[@Tecnalala]

Krunoslav Stifter I can't take a smartphone into an exam.

[@KrunoslavStifter]

That is because school does not prepare you for life. Its how you respond to what school teaches you that prepares you for life.

[@enchantedtonight]

School is life

[@KrunoslavStifter]

You mean the other way around, life is school?

[@enchantedtonight]

No, sorry I meant school is a part of life so memorizing and test taking is valuable.

[@kcfamilam5109]

So he studied anywhere from 12 to 16 hours... to memorize a single page of text?

[@bilbaneji2863]

idk but to memorize half of the periodic table in order, i took a 7 hour study session

[@vedikabhatnagar335]

you should have listened to asapscience's periodic table song. songs make memorization much easier

[@Me-ot7sq]

Gabriel Gutierrez yes, I memorized the first 20 in 2 hours with that song

[@videofanlctb]

so thats the memory palace in sherlock holmes

[@dandroid_]

I used this to memorize 115 places of pi for a competition in 6th grade. I’m about to turn 21 and I still remember 55 digits, so yeah it works pretty well, even in the long term, although some more complicated things might fade a bit over time without consistent recall

[@jadencm4862]

Step 1: clear schedule Step 2: prepare for loss of street cred Step 3: read the chapter a bazillion times Step 4: ask self why you wasted so much of your life on this task Step 5: stages of grief Rinse and repeat

[@andslove88]

Sherlockians, where are you at?!

[@randomperson9291]

andslove88 Over here

[@awesomeguy9573]

andslove88 what is that?

[@screwinglogic4564]

Aye!

[@yomi001]

Sherlockians are having imaginary sex with themselves.

[@HajoBenzin1]

its called the "method of loci"

[@iamapokerface8992]

HajoBenzin1 memory palace is for people who know the method of loci memory palace is good if u want to memorize much more things

[@matildev152]

I've realised that I'm pretty good at memorizing things, and it's because when I'm reading something I always tend to visualise it effortlessly. So when I have to recall that bit of information, my mind simply brings up the image that I made up in my mind earlier, and I instantly remember what I had read!

[@megscorner3596]

Thank you so much for the video! I used the technique of memory palace and it helped a LOT for me to understand a book that I am reading. I first read each chapter (which is 12 pages long) and tried to locate the most unusual or unexpected details in my home. Because my home is 3 stories, I was able to locate each chapter on each floor and the other chapter in the entrance of my home. Therefore, part 1 of my book was complete (there are three parts). I then repeated the steps with each chapter by using Google Earth, etc. Now I can build a clear summary of the entire book without having to do a lot of writing and visualize in a aspect that suits me.

[@jacky79322]

I've been using this technique without knowing 😂 I thought everybody did this...

[@kevina.2269]

😂😂😂😂 hilarious

[@emyemyemyyyy]

I'm disabled and get brain fog and this is how I got through high school lol and probably how I'll get through university

[@-anaamna5616]

Emy Anderson what is that ?

[@completeandunabridged.4606]

Emy Anderson Post viral fatigue?

[@Winterseeker]

Love Vox! I actually learned about this reading the fantastic "Moonwalking with Einstein" a few years back - I encourage everyone to read it!

[@karonights3438]

That seems really elaborate to memorize something. Honestly, reading something over and over works just as well, or just have what you wanna memorize recorded and listening to it.

[@OFFICALMENOFCULTURE]

Thank you so much. You just explained this easier than anywhere I've seen MNEMONICS before.THANKS!

[@espressokid3901]

I usually 'sing' the phrases in my head so I could remember stuff, like someone's phone number.

[@nathan528]

Espresso Kid 867-5309?

[@nuansakautsar5687]

Like: ZERROOOO EEEEIIIIIGHTT NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH SIXTEEN EIGHTY NIIIIIIINE TEN AND TWELVE YEEEEAHHHHH

[@humanalltoohuman]

Interesting...

[@oreodimasdale3840]

Thank you thank you thank you so much for being recommended to me just a month after I graduated from college.

[@patches_kitty]

"Just 3-4 hours a day"

[@hakuOTR]

A room filled with some of the greatest Journalists and reporters of our decade. O.O flippin amazin and I applaud you guys for your works :D

[@md.hasiburrahman9456]

Finally, I have found someone like me, who forgets people's names after 5 seconds of hearing.

[@usernameXunavailabl3]

Why tho?...

[@gamerdude456x]

rage comics lol

[@isham2044]

Jarl Ballin' U should be watching GamerPoop

[@thorr18BEM]

Jarl Ballin' , to demonstrate his experience trying a mnemonic method to overcome his terrible memory.

[@gamerdude456x]

you know what i'm sayin?

[@Jeff-cr9ho]

google trumps memory

[@Sid00101]

I have two questions: 1) Do you still remember the chapter after all this time since the post of this video? 2) How precise does the image for each line lead you that exact line? Did your memory did a perfect transcript? Thanks.

[@Vilakazi]

This is awesome, loved his optimism as well.

[@mohamedmahmoud4045]

I can't memorize the first 3 words of this video but I can somehow remember big smoke's order after 1 time...

[@DylanJo123]

Project Legend cuz you were probably laughing at his fat ass. like this guy said, emotions can trigger applying a memory long term

[@ghmasterjj]

"an entire chapter"

[@aphr0d]

well he's not wrong

[@kittythecat8298]

At least he tried

[@kittythecat8298]

Lol

[@dalanium98]

BE COOL he said

[@Jeff-cr9ho]

I know right? he basically memorized a short poem. not too impressive

[@resegotabane4227]

I watched this completely invested until I remembered that I've memorised and performed Shakespeare before. That's me ironically forgetting that I have good memory.

[@ladymusiclover]

I have my 1st semester exams in February. I'm so glad I procrastinated onto this video.

[@Fuliginosus]

I'd like to know the steps from remembering the images (John Waters etc.) to knowing each sentence word-for-word.

[@frankbauerful]

Too bad I have no visual memory to speak of. I can't even recall my first girl friend's hair color, let alone anything about our first kiss. And although every room in my apartment has a different color, if you asked me outside of my apartment I would probably mess them up. On the bright side, I can still recite the first scene from Macbeth which I memorized by "brute force" in less than an hour more than a decade ago.

[@thorr18BEM]

frankbauerful , you can still leverage the extreme power of spatial memory. The video is about the Method of Loci, which means location, as in spatial memory. It's only partly visual memory and emotional is the third thing you can try to mix in.

[@omnibnnuy]

Different people can learn things through different means. The annoying aspect of this video that it didn't touch on is that this is best for the more imaginative people. There are other methods, that whilst similar, are more personalized depending on the person. You just have to find the one that actually fits your preferred learning method.

[@terrancebigham6765]

The method is also called the "loci" method, from the Latin "loci" for place, from where we get "location".

[@jamccarney6734]

Good job. Thanks for the great and very clear explanation.

[@Slarti]

I used mnemonics for my finals exams at University and since then have tried the method of loci. The method of loci is definitely a better way of memorising in my experience - this is what this video describes.

[@jademonass2954]

"we can easily remember faces" people with face blindness:

[@poisson12376]

One of the best books I read this year, Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer.

[@thazintan-ya9576]

I tried this on a page of Latin translation and it actually worked so well! This video is an absolute lifesaver thank youuuuuu

[@0ki7o]

Good for you. All I care is why, not how.

[@thorr18BEM]

Yout Tuka to demonstrate his experience trying a mnemonic method?

[@MarcusJII]

Like that key and peele skit in the parking garage.

[@alexandredemasure]

Literally spacing out during the video... I wanna cry

[@doctormike429]

Not a perfect technique for textual memory -though it worked. But I used this technique in medical school and it was a god send. I learned all of my pharmacology by putting the medicatiions by class into different rooms in my house. In one short evening I was able to learn the entire semester of pharmacology. The amazing thing is that once you establish the spots in the palace you can add endless detail to the facts you know. At exam time I was confident that I knew EVERTHING they were able to ask. It works great for memorizing lists etc.

[@pizzabotstudios9957]

Sherlock explained

[@ScoobyandShaggy5554]

Any Sherlock fans?

[@randomperson9291]

Shaggy Rogers Right over here

[@thatclassygirl5094]

Shaggy Rogers tomorrow!

[@ScoobyandShaggy5554]

ThatClassy Girl I loved the first episode of series 4 did you?

[@brie3679]

My mom would always make poems, songs, sayings, etc. I could spell Madagascar at age 4 because she taught me to remember the saying "Mad! A gas car?" like someone who's never seen a motor vehicle running on gasoline before might say. And when I had a spelling test in like 3rd grade and needed to remember how to spell island, she talk me to think of myself pointing from a boat on the ocean and saying "that IS LAND!". She even wrote a song about my cousins so I could remember all their names, as one aunt has 6 kids. That's just how me and my mom retained information. We would apply it to something unique yet familiar. Like the poem itself is unique and not like any other sayings, so I remember it for that. But I also remember it because it applies to something I already know. I can spell "mad" "a" "gas" and car. So I know how to spell Madagascar. I know how to spell "is" and "land" so I know how to spell island.

[@zhenzhunaichaoo4750]

Great Job! I have heard of this method. It seems like so much work thinking up different images, but it looks like it's worth it :)

[@isaaclee3490]

The game is ... something!!

[@patsrule111]

I know how something called "Time" which you certainly have

[@alfayed1991]

Sweet !! This is such and cool and insightful video, thanks.

[@saysayjayra]

We do something similar in my Academic Decathlon club but for dates and events, except we have specific items that corleares to a body part that correlates to a number and for all the numbers we’d get the items and make a crazy story about it. Using the weird technique allowed us to memorize up to 100 (and more) dates with their events. It came in handy during history class.

[@SamyStClair]

Memory so good that he forgot to credit the book that this came from.

[@thorr18BEM]

Samy St Clair , he said he has a terrible memory.

[@VictorGonz]

(4 years later) what book would that be? Moonwalking...? That one is the most famous now, but maybe he didn't get it from there. Also, there are hundreds of older books talking about it.

[@drywaterr2418]

3-4 hours a day, for 12 days, to remember 38 sentences? That's pretty bad. You're making this technique look useless.

[@annabezulska6562]

he said 4 days

[@HrishiBaney]

angel olea 4 days

[@drywaterr2418]

Dam. can't believe I misheard that bad, lmao. Still bad, though.

[@thelaobros]

angel olea But he said he has a terrible memory!

[@supermaster7470]

You can memorize this for 1-2 hours in a memory palace. Maybe he doesn't use it properly.

[@RootinrPootine]

Good to see no one is asking any practical questions here. I don’t understand how to break up the chunks: one image for a whole sentence? Even if that gets you the key words, what about the exact sequence? How does the image help with that?

[@holysword876]

I have read about memory palaces but never really understood it....... Until now. Thanks so much!

[@losttribe3001]

Cool! Now I'm going to get drunk and forgot my shitty kids...

[@placido593]

Nice

[@es4655]

new title: how I wasted my time

[@Baerock]

You just spoke my thoughts

[@kinn4086]

I've memorized pages of pure textual information by using jingles and associations. Grouping similar concepts helps as well. Then assign the group a mnemonic, like a phrase or an acronym, and go from there. It takes more time to recall information this way, but it helps you store more information with significantly less work than going through this memory palace technique. Also, a memory palace only works when one wants to recall sequential information. It wouldn't be useful to me as a science student since I'm required to recall information in its bits and pieces as asked. But if you're an actor or need to present a speech, this could be a great way to ditch the cue cards.

[@Lucky13Good]

I have got a question. I understand how to use this memory palace for shopping list, but how I can use this method for memorising some university subjects , or grammar rules??

[@broadwaybaby3935]

I'm going to memorize the whole "Robbie Rotten's Dream Team" Lazytown episode

[@fadedflage]

Its a piece of cake

[@LakesReptiles]

I do this for school, it works

[@LakesReptiles]

gojo bojo I try to not only create an image but like an interactive part of a story along the path in the palace

[@aphroegy1730]

try to do that in college where u have to memorize 12 chapters full with their elements and boring details lel

[@bentinho]

There's a great book I used on hiragana and katakana that uses pneumonic devices that helped me start to learn Japanese in college. It's a nice tool to have.

[@franekpiechota6514]

ok. but when my house mind palace is full, i have to create another one, yes? or should i chose something big in the first place ? i should keep everything i remembered, or "overwrite" my house when i need to remember something. how large flat did you chose to remember this whole chapter ?(sorry for bad english )

[@Kire1120]

You would be terrible at speach if it takes you 4 days with 4 hours a day to remember a page and a half.

[@thorr18BEM]

Erik Harvey , I think he mentioned he's terrible in the first line of the video.

[@Kire1120]

thorr18BEM Ya I know. but it doesn't exactly make his argument for using this method very convincing.

[@DanielHBracy]

Erik Harvey He would have a hard time acting too. I've had to memorize full scripts on a 24 hour time limit

[@omnibnnuy]

It was also his first attempt at it, too, mind you. Did you write notes clearly, without fail and quickly when you first started taking them? It's a style of learning that you have to routinely do in order to have quicker results. The fact that it took him 12 hours in quite amazing for someone with both bad memory and trying it the first time. We could also take into account the fact that different people react better to different methods. Some are more creative and can imagine things like this, and others are much more cold logical and learn better through sheer memorization. Depends on the person, no two humans are the same.

[@Othmaun]

There are a good number of Muslims who memorize the whole Qur'an. it's all about practicing it in a daily basis.

[@thorr18BEM]

3thman xx , the śrutis of Hinduism called the Vedas were transmitting exact memorization of their knowledge from generation to generation thousands of years before the Qur'an existed. Many oral traditions of the world were passed down because their were nemonics built in, such as alliteration, repetition, assonance, and proverbial sayings. This video is about a nemonic used for memorizing data that has no such built-in nemonic. It's known as The Method of Loci, aka "Mind Palace".

[@UberStar]

thorr18BEM Why are you copying the same comment here and there?

[@nuansakautsar5687]

Yeah that's what I do to improvise my memorization. What do I use my memorization for? To memorize new ayat and surat of the Al Quran

[@milatovar2637]

That was pretty helpful. Thank you!

[@HrishiBaney]

You did a chapter. I need to do an entire text book, per subject. That's 6 textbooks with 200 - 450 pages each. Don't tell me the education system isn't bullshit.

[@ivo3185]

You're not supposed to memorize textbooks. You're supposed to understand their content.

[@HrishiBaney]

Youthro Yes, please understand 200 pages of History, go ahead.

[@HrishiBaney]

Youthro Oh, while you're at it, please tell me what kind of agriculture Tamil Nadu and Punjab have. Go ahead, I can already see you Googling it

[@nicholaskraut1704]

Hrishi Baney lol you are just telling people you aren't very good at history

[@HrishiBaney]

Nicholas Kraut Lol, and if I gave you the history of India, you'd be very good at it?

[@ashurgeorge4604]

With long memorization make them into songs. With short memorization, make them into rhymes.

[@quranrecitationsandmemoriz1474]

People memorize the entire Book, I have chains that memorize the entire Quran, and God willing I will too one day.

[@AurelUrban]

this seems kinda funny to me :D Im an actress so Im used to memmorising pages and pages worth of text. This chapter would take me maybe two hours to know it by heart. I understand that some people just arent used to it, but it's still funny that he used mind palace for this amount of text and it took him 4 days. Mind palaces are incredible, but for this purpose I would choose to simply break it down, understand the words and repeat it many times in 3-4 sentence segments.

[@SavvasConstantin]

What he should mention is that you will remember this information forever, this is not a ''memorize fast'' technique , its a ''remember this information forever'' technique, if you force yourself into learning something for a test etc. you will remember it for 1 or 2 days and then forget most of that information. But with this for example. he will remember these 2 pages on the fly for the rest of his life. It's like a photographic memory, but compared to people with actual photographic memory , its like they have a 2000$ canon camera, and you have an old fashion hard to use camera that takes forever to take a picture.

[@pangkhongyun6290]

DragTV definitely can memory fast if you are good at imagine things...easy convert and put.....