Art of Memory Blog Posts - Page 23 of 24
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Promoting the World Memory Championships in Guangzhou (VIDEO)
The World Memory Championships are happening right now in Guangzhou, China. The promotional video in Chinese is the best memory video I’ve seen.
Free PDF Books on Memory Training
While searching for new memory books to read, I came across a few interesting books on memory techniques that are in the public domain.
Memory Palace Using a Painting
Below is a painting of a tiger that I like by Henri Rousseau. There's enough going on in the painting that it could even be used for a memory palace.
Memory Videos, and Implanting Fake Memories with Lasers
Here are a couple of interesting articles about memory.
Arbitrary Actions vs. Person-Action-Object System (Part 3)
Back to the drawing board. While I work on developing a functional 2-card memory system with 2,652 images, I’m using a temporary 1-card system with 52 images.
The Meanings of Numbers
I compiled all of the pages about numbers 1 to 100 from Wikipedia into a single PDF document. Wikipedia has many ideas for number associations.
"You're Going to Play Cards in Las Vegas, Right?"
When I tell people that my hobby is memorizing things like numbers and cards, my impression has been that they think it's so strange that they don't know what to say.
Collecting Mnemonic Images at the De Young Museum
Yesterday, I went to the de Young Museum in San Francisco to collect mnemonic images for my memory system.
Arbitrary Actions or PAO? (Part 2)
I made some progress today on the 2-digit/single-card part of my memory system. Yesterday, I was wondering whether I should switch to a person-action-object system.
Arbitrary Actions, or Person-Action-Object?
My memory system is based on Ben Pridmore’s but with a few modifications. The core idea is the same though: decimal digits are chunked in 3s, binaries in 10s, and so on.
