The Memory Palace Course

The Memory Palace(Loci) method has its place in the panoply of great universal inventions that have had a significant influence on Western thinking and culture. For this reason, I believe that a brief history of this wonderful technique will help you understand why it has played such an important role over time.

The Loci method has two variants: The Roman Room technique and The Journey Technique. In this lesson, you will learn how these techniques work

What are the characteristics of a memory palace?

Ancient rules for choosing locations and for creating mnemonic images that are placed in these places.

In this lesson you will learn how to build your own memory palace, step by step.

The Loci method is a simple technique, but it has certain rules which, if you don't know them, you are at risk of not remembering what you memorized in the first place. Memory experts use certain tricks to make their memorization as efficient as possible, and in this lesson, I have gathered some of the most important ones.

The key to all memory techniques is this: associating and condensing abstract concepts or an entire phrase into an image, like the art of a perfect painter. This association process is quite difficult and especially strictly personal, some general rules cannot be established but, instead, there are several memory methods that can help you do this, and I will briefly present them to you so that you can understand how they work and in what situations you can use them. These are called Encoding techniques and are easy to learn and very effective tools available to anyone who wants to use them.

The best example to start practicing the loci method is to memorize a list. Even when you have to learn complex materials, they will have to be processed and transformed into a list of simple images, which can be placed in a memory palace.

In this lesson, we will use the loci method to memorize an already created TO-DO LIST.

The Peg System is another structural memory method which you use every day, even though you may not realize it. As a mnemonic method, the Peg System uses various tricks to turn these abstract pegs into memorable images that will be combined with images of things to remember.

Although Mind Maps has been invented in the 1960s by memory training expert and co-founder of World Memory Championships Tony Buzan, only in recent years it has become a very popular technique for learning, memory and creativity, being used by people of all ages to organize information, solve problems and to make better decisions. As a memory technique, this is another method that can help you create a very unique structure on which to hang the images you want to memorize. 

I chose a little geography lesson about the Republic of Mali that we will turn together into a list of images, by applying the methods already presented, after which we will create a mental palace and we will place the images there to memorize them.

There is a method—a formula, if you will—behind any ultra-efficient learning.

This great learning tool, which I have named “the Super Clever Advanced Learning Method (SCALM) “, is extremely effective because of its versatility. It can be applied to any type of material you will ever have to remember.

In this lesson, you will learn how to memorize a speech by using the SCALM Technique.

In this lesson, you will learn a very efficient method used by memory experts, combining several memory techniques and tools that will allow you to become more effective in learning foreign languages.

If this course is over, what are the next steps on this journey towards a better memory? And when does it end?