Method of loci will remember a shopping list and prepare for presentations

If you are at the store, forgetting a shopping list at home, at the launch you can not take your eyes off own slides and bad memorize foreign words, you can help a mental walk through the Palace memory.

method of loci is so named not after the Norse god. Name comes from the Latin word loci - «position." Otherwise, this method is called a mnemonic Memory Palace or mental walk.

method of loci was developed in ancient Rome, when the master rhetoric We could not use the records and all the information for hours of performances held in the memory. The method consists in tying things you need to remember, to you well-known locations. Facts may be any, for example:

• foreign words;
• material for presentation at the conference;
• a shopping list for a celebratory dinner.

Incidentally, the method of loci using Dominic O'Brien (Dominic O'Brien) in mnemonic competitions.

Dominic O'Brien

British mnemonist and author of books on the development of memory. In 2002, Dominic O'Brien set a record, remember the sequence from 2808 (!) Cards, but one glance at each of them.

So how do you store information using the memory of the Palace?

Step 1. Build a Memory Palace

1. Select a location. This should be a familiar place that you easily submit and which can mentally walk. For example, your apartment. Equipment to be effective, not simply be flat, and create a walking route on it.

2. Make a list of distinctive detailsthis place. For apartments this can be items of furniture or decor. Try to analyze the space systematically, for example in accordance with the route on which you normally do cleaning.

3. Printed in memory own place. Here it may take some time, but this step will ensure that the method of Loki will work effectively. If this is difficult for you, use one of the additional steps:

• go again on the route and fix the details on paper;
• always start from one place;
• mentally return to their place as often as possible.

Step 2. Create an Association

Constructing a memory palace, proceed to placing in it points to remember.

Approach this creatively. For example, you want to remember a shopping list. Imagine the eggs fall off the couch, flip a skvorchaschy bacon, so he stuck to the door, pull the celery, cabbage and poreyu a certain place at a table and imagine how they talk about the weather. In the bathroom brushing her teeth let fabric softener and cleaner for tile showers. The delusional and ridiculous to be Association, all the better!

Step 3. Walk down Memory Palace

Repeat the created image, make sure that you do not forget anything.

Everything! Done! You can go to the store.

Of course, the shopping list is not the only application of this method. In addition, in the store, perhaps even more convenient to use this list on paper or on your smartphone. However, storing a list of purchases is well suited for the development of the method. Once you can move on to more complex data.

Also, over time, you can create multiple paths to keep memory more information. For example, on vacation, try to remember the situation favorite hotel, on the way to pay attention to the most vivid of the building or go to the park, which is most loved in childhood.