The other techniques are "chaining", which is essentially taking a list of images and pegging each to the image that comes before it in the list, and "mind trips" (or "journeys" or "memory palaces",) which can be either pegging or chaining or a mix of both, but using the method of pegging/chaining to locations you travel through (this was the technique used by classical and medieval scholars Mark Twain used a physical analog to this as a teaching aide.)Īnyways, chaining is good for remembering stuff that has to be recalled in a specific order, like a poem for a recital. See, memory tricks often rely on "pegging" an image of a thing you need to remember to one item on a "peg list" of images you have memorized.
But I haven't worked on studying foreign languages as much as I wanted, for example.Īside from laziness, a major reason I haven't worked more with these systems has to do with the image techniques used. Oh sure, I can remember telephone numbers pretty well by converting them to words using the Major System (which was the basis of Furst's method and shows up in the other two systems I mentioned.) And I occasionally peg things I need to remember to body parts, although not as regularly as I should. I even paid for a memory seminar (based on Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory, which I later bought.)īut although I feel I've got a pretty good memory and gained something from these books and courses, I don't feel I've gotten all that I could out of these courses, because I didn't practice enough.
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I've read many articles about memory techniques and also bought books like How To Be Twice As Smart. I did eventually find the book in a public library and read it, so at least I feel I've filled that minor goal. I lusted after it mightily, but never bought it. OK, maybe not while in the womb, but I remember when I was 12 or so, seeing ads in Scientific American or maybe Fate Magazine for You Can Remember by Bruno Furst.
So, I've decided to have another go at constructing a story to make it easier to memorize the Krebs cycle.I've always been obsessed with memory techniques. My use of mnemonic techniques were a mixture of success and failure over the following few years as an undergraduate I spent a lot of time drawing mind maps that in hindsight might have been better employed going through past exam papers, and there was one class that mostly involved memorizing mathematical proofs which lent itself extremely well to being encoded into mnemonics, and for which I received a good mark in the end of year exam, but truly understood very little of the material. It was few years later that I read Harry Lorayne's Page-a-Minute Memory Book, Bruno Furst's Course in Memory & Concentration, and a few of Tony Buzan's books. I was aware of mnemonics at that stage of my life, but only at a very basic level: ROYGBIV for the colors of the rainbow, IPMAT for the stages of mitosis (Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase) and so on. I remember having to study it in high school and struggling to memorize the steps. The Krebs Cycle or Citric acid cycle came up in conversation recently.
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