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Indeed. Utopia has arrived!

I just read that here in Australia the teachers would like to wear body cams to both track and curb such behaviors. The future is surveillance…

More than ever!

Yes, you can definitely do these things. The question to be asked is: Do you want to use Memory Palaces or Memorized Palaces. Any time you have to look something up to either learn or even familiarize yourself with it, you are out of the realm of using an actual Memory Palace. This is because Memory Palaces are just that: based on what you remember. Memorized Palaces, on the hand, are quite different, add cognitive load (usually unnecessarily) and are not as immediately available for many of us. Ultimately, each person has to experiment and decide for themselves how viable the approach is. I've done a lot of experiments and ultimately concluded that using Memory Palaces and not Memorized Palaces is the right approach for me. Does this way of looking at things make sense and help you out?

Yes, indeed. And much solace can come from visiting them often too even without a memory-related goal.

Love your enthusiasm and more coming soon to the channel.

Priming in the way you suggest is indeed a best practice with books set up for it. I’ll have to check out the comics you mention. Normally, I don’t find the comic format conducive to the nuances history requires, but some of them do contain lots of names and other books for further reading. And I haven’t heard of the exact series you mentioned until now.

@AnthonyMetivierMMM cartoon history of the Univese and Cartoon history of the modern world are great. 5 volumes. The USA history is well written but terrible art. He needs to redraw that one as he got a lot better.

Excellent, thanks for the pointer. The closest I've come to this is the Memory Detective Jr. series (yet to be released). Visible here: czcams.com/users/postUgkxLIJ0Pnp75uonLadk2JxZqV1Ji7Y2TS90 But they're picture books for kids, not comics. I would love to find a great artist to do a graphic novel version of my Memory Detective novel for adults, but I not only don't read graphic novels myself, I wouldn't know what makes for a great graphic novel script.

@AnthonyMetivierMMM The script is easy. Pick up Understandig Comics by Scott McCloud and its sequel first. The trick is findng an artist that matches your vision for the story. Also read The Strangee Death of Alex Raymond it a semi non fiction graphic novel that explains your options as to art styles better thsn anything else. Any publisher can hook you up wih the best person. But you need to figure out your look or it won't be what you want. Most public libraries have piles of graphic novels now. Just look at the styles and ask for an artist who can work on that style. Talk to your agent if you have one about the money split then go to any art school or comic con..

@AnthonyMetivierMMM Max Allen Collins is the king of Mystery comics. He is older now 76, don't know if he is still active. You might send him a copy of the novel.

Tyson Yunkaporta and I challenge some similar issues here, including the overall notion of “the West”: czcams.com/video/R_--IAZz410/video.htmlsi=CjJDZatm9kstEvX2 🙏

Thanks for your kind words. Indeed the actions you mention can be done inside of Memory Palaces. My teaching simply asks the question: Why add actions that have to be remembered? Then it removes all of that stuff. No one is required to follow the recommendation raised by the question, but a Memory Palace is really only a location-based mnemonic if it is based on what one remembers of the Memory Palace. Adding elements that have to be remembered makes it a "Memorized Palace" and that is something for others to teach. Does this way of looking at things make sense?

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM WOW!! You responded! I am following your instructions as closely as possible. You have to sit down and concentrate, take notes and make associations. So far what I can get from this is that when you use three different mental reference points it helps things to stick. I am using the Memory Palace to get all 78 tarot cards in my head. It takes the locality, the card, it's meaning and commits them to the brain. My shortcut is to place all of the seven's for instance, four of them on one card. I do this for the one through ten cards and do the memory palace routine. Wow!! This is working fabulously well!! I have a video on CZcams. Tony Wylder: Yellow Dress. This was done at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts. In it I forgot the lyrics in front of a concert crowd. It all got a great laugh and applause because the audience was forgiving. I did continue. Regardless those kinds of memory lapses can kill a performance. Good memorization techniques like you teach would save all that. Again, Tony, Thanks so much!

Glad you're seeing success with these techniques. Forgetting lines and lyrics happens even to the best of the best. There's a video somewhere with Christopher Walken forgetting his lines as Captain Cook in Peter Pan and I think he recovers remarkably well, all things considered.

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM This was the forte of Jimmy Stewart. That's where all the ooms and ahhs came from. The Director said, "I think we're gonna keep this take. The line isn't exactly as written but it works." He couldn't really say charming. Thanks again for the response.

Jimmy Stewart was amazing.

Now is always the tine. 💪

Thanks for your question. There are tools used inside of Memory Palaces, so we don’t normally use the technique on its own. About the title you mentioned, it’s an exclusive bonus in the Magnetic Memory Method Masterclass. 🙏

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Thanks Anthony. Now I'll go and do a picture walk with a drawing book arround the city to make new mind palaces and memorize it.

Power to you!

This is a good space to be in. The elaboration tools are there when we need them, but truly Magnetic Images have been there all along and are merely set up like chess pieces in the Memory Palaces. They do their work very well when the right pieces are in place.

Great that your business is successful and keeping you busy and congrats on your motherhood. Your kids will love you for knowing these techniques and sharing them. Of course, they will love you no matter what, but you know what I mean. :-) You've identified one of the greatest things about mnemonic techniques. They allow for breaking things down and getting massive benefits from small doses of activity. These all build up over time to create mountainous benefits. Thanks so much for your comments and looking forward to your next post as time and memory allow! 🙏

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Thanks for your post. Please say more. It’s difficult to converse based on so few details. In the meantime, Aristotle’s chapter on friendship in The Nichomachean Ethics may be interesting and useful for you.

Each person will be different, but there are tools that will make things faster.

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM my only problem is mnemonics. I find it quiet tough to create them

Why "create" them when the Magnetic Memory Method completely eliminates this step?

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM yes you are right! They have to be colorful and zany and exaggerated. But how this means I don't have to create them?

Yes, in the beginning that is a great thing to do. Greater subtleties await if you get into the training. To answer your question, what are some of the images you've created? It will be easier to get to the core issue you're facing if I know what you've been working with. You know what they say about teaching someone to fish rather than fishing for them. My preference is to go even further by helping those who really want to learn these techniques how to fish, farm, hunt and even pull inspiration directly from the sky.

Glad it resonated and thanks for checking it out and letting me know. Have you ever acted or thought about doing it?

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Oh no, Veronica is the actor! But I feel like the singing while playing guitar that I do is similar in a lot of ways to acting. Especially when Ashley was talking about considering the meaning of each word/phrase and how to approach them based on that. I've done a lot of deep dives into song lyrics to really get a feel for them. I change things like my tempo or loudness (sometimes for individual words) depending on the meaning & mood. It makes the singing more interesting. And there's the added bonus of the extra appreciation I gain for each song when I study them like this!

That is an interesting point. I once heard someone say that memorizing the lyrics down pat is the key to interpreting the song while performing it. All the better when they've been interpreted. You might like "The Real Work" book by Adam Gopnik I mentioned at the end of this interview. There's a whole part about music and lyrics at the end that I thought was interesting - especially in terms of how open-ended lyrics tend to be and often so very disjointed when encountered without the music.

Thanks for your questions. A few answers: 1) I can make content like this because I’ve built an audience familiar with the Memory Palace technique and who appreciate this kind of analysis. I believe you’ll find that other comments bear this observation out - these come from people who like you and I care about this tradition. 2) There are specific steps that I have suggested in this video. I have heard from many people via email who have completed them. I apologize if you missed them. Over hundreds of videos, and after nearly a decade of teaching at three universities in three countries and two languages, I have no explanation for why the steps are clear and evident to some and not to others. To my knowledge, pedagogy has never solved this problem. I’m aware of the literature about it and await some theorist to suggest something that makes a difference. All I can suggest is that people look at my 700+ videos on this channel and understand that it’s not for a lack of trying on my part. I wish you great success and if you follow the steps in this and my other videos, I’d love to see your homework. I receive homework from people every single day and share it in many of my videos. 🙏

What kinds of things are you putting together on Blender?

One thing that helps scale is to compound each word with a phrase. Start with the alphabetical approach and then when you add phrases to each established word you scale to dozens, sometimes 100 or more within individual rooms of the Memory Palace.

Ashley’s show or me on CZcams? It’s been years since I went live on this channel. But we have a monthly private live stream if you’re in the MMM Inner Circle.

Yes, you could think of it as something like a mind map. Some people base the 00-99 PAO on the Major, but the Major itself is derivative of the Katapayadi. Thanks for your interest in Flyboy. It is available directly from me. Just shout out by email if you can't find the portal into it by searching for it. Thanks too for your kind words and Vitamin X is on its way. The first draft is finished and the muse has been very kind indeed. Mnemosyne serves!

If someone wanted to create them, it would interesting to see how people respond. There’s something in that direction in my tutorial on how I memorized my TEDx Talk, but not quite.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting. It’s been awhile - how have you been?

Doing great - has been a rough year so far, but I’m really making progress with French and Mem-Deck thanks to the MMM (Masterclass) and your Books. And also, keep up the long-form content! Always glad to see your posts

Great to hear about the progress, even if these are challenging times. More and more the long form content is going here: czcams.com/channels/I1GLqrRgj8-vrgKuWN7ayg.html Or at least podcasts where there's no need to get on camera as such. Anything you'd like to see covered in a future video?

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Already subscribed to Podcast and YT-Channel ;) I’d love to see a kind of list of Memory-techniques video. I’ve seen you already done something like that, but i’d really enjoy more of that. Otherwise more breathing/relaxing techniques would be very much appreciated. Thanks for your contribution to Memory and mental wellbeing!

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You bet! Have you memorized any scripture of any kind yourself so far?

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM no but perhaps with thé help of magnetic memory masterclass i would try ..

I think you'll find the "Magnetic SRS" in the poetry course very useful if you want to develop your mnemonic tools for this kind of goal.

How are you making your mnemonics? “Making” anything is not at all what I teach - even if the words “make” and “create” are sometimes used. Have I ever seen your homework? There are guides people have created for physics and probably chemistry. It shouldn’t be necessary, though. The five main mnemonic systems are all you need.

@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I have followed your compartments within apartments kind of Mnemonics technique where I go through each and every object present in my room. Yes, that is awesome. Works! But building a creative image around it is the hard part. Its been about 2 months since when I watched it, and still I have only completed 2 chapters of biology with about 100 lines memorized. 50 per chapter.

"Making" and "building" images are not part of my teaching. I'd suggest learning the Magnetic Memory Method.

Let us all be prepared. 🙏

Agreed. I know someone memorizing Dante's Inferno. Apparently it's going well so far. There's a couple of great performances of Dante on CZcams that I've seen. It sounds amazing in Italian.

Thanks so much for checking this one out and for your kind words. Have you ever done any acting yourself or memorized verbatim text of any length like this?

Fantastic! I look forward to an update as your time allows. Power to you!

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