Alex Mullen On Mnemonic Speed, Mandarin & Medical Terminology
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Alex Mullen is a 3x World Memory Champion.
But even though his status as a memory athlete is impressive, I'm more impressed by the help he offers language learners and medical students.
In addition to competing in memory events, he runs Mullen Memory and makes great CZcams videos for people around the world.
To download the MP3 and read the transcripts of this interview, please visit:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/...
As a memory expert, I'm happy to add this interview with Alex Mullen to our special playlist for voices active in promoting mnemonics and other memory skills:
• Memory Expert Playlist
Enjoy and if you need memory training, including detailed instructions on creating and using a Memory Palace Network, please take our free course at:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/yt
Sincerely,
Anthony Metivier
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Which of these tips do you think you'll use first?
I'm at work doing a memory palace right now lol...and I finally figured out how to get your podcasts on my phone lol
Excellent - the perfect place for it.
What was it that finally got it working? Some kind of podcast app? There are so many these days! :)
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM The podcast addict has your podcast. Now I can listen and get educated while I clean my house.
Fantastic. I look forward to your thoughts on any episodes and ideas that catch your interest! :)
Dr Metivier I would like to know about making physical representations of the mental palace, like if in an iPad would be useful to make them and so on. Also how to make that wheels of the ars combinatoria.
I am a big fan of Alex Mullen, thank you for interviewing him. I
Thanks for checking this one out!
Who is missing from the show (other than unreachable people) you'd like to see interviewed next? The second interview with Lynne Kelly was recorded yesterday, but I know there are many more people and topics to cover. :)
I agree with you Alex has some great training videos, my mom was able to see benefits when I used his videos to explain memory palace. Great interview. Love it.
That's fantastic!
Has she started using them also?
Great interview! Was this recorded in 2016?? What took so long to release it???
Thanks for checking it out!
Yes, this was originally released on February 18th, 2016 and has been on the MMM podcast all along.
We're slowly re-realising video-podcast versions of select interviews and seeing if people engage with them in this format. So far so good. :)
Nelson ! I want to be a memory athlete someday and i’ve learned a lot from your videos including Yanjaa Wintersoul, Anthony Metivier, Alex Mullen, Dominic O’Brien , and Jim Kwik. Thank you all for keeping me Motivated !! That’s it 😅😂😂😂
Sorry for my English 😅
Thank you master ...forever grateful to you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
So nice of you!
What are you currently memorizing?
Great interview! Thanks for putting it together Anthony! I am big follower and admirer of Alex and have gained a lot from him! 😀😍
Glad you enjoyed it! Are you practicing for competition yourself?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Oh yes! I am a Memory Athlete from India :)
Nice! What are you currently focused on most? (Cards, numbers, names, etc?)
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I am focusing on creating more Memory Palaces at the moment, but the virtual ones this time as I have never tried that before! Let me see how it goes. And I am revisiting my Memory Systems in all the disciplines, as I had a long gap! :)
Glad you're revisiting your skills and systems. I hope this channel can be of use to you along the way! :-)
How is it possible that anyone would "thumbs-down" this video?
I was wondering that myself. Oddly enough, there are people who do that on this channel from time to time.
MMM Policy: Thumbs down with no explanation in a comment = zero meaning.
Thanks for looking out for the MMM Family and hope to see more comments from you soon. Have you been lately?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I've been good, one of my new self-imposed memory training tasks is memorizing the "Algebraic notation" of chess, so hopefully one day I could memorize entire chess games!
That sounds incredible. How far have you come in the past two weeks? :-)
Mr. Mullen is a humble genius. His system to memorize tones and readings are very good, but didn't got those drills yet. Also, his best idea was to get examples of mnemonics. PAO with the Major is so frustrating! I did like the Chinese people, forgot The hard alphabetical stuff, and got to that sweet meaning of things! This got so much more personal and so more helpful. Major Method is helpful, but just searching on internet for imagery and modifying it in your mind is SO better! Wish I saw this first! Major (and phonetic work in general) is, now, 1% of my mnemonics now. The rest is focused on meaning of the knowledge 😊
Thanks for sharing these discoveries from the interview, Fisico.
Keep in mind this interview has been available on the MMM Podcast for years. If you're only watching the CZcams videos, you're missing out on 99% of the available knowledge from many memory experts and competitors.
Dive in and look forward to your next post as always! :)
Dr Mullen
I been learning Korean for 3 years and have made progress, but I would like to improve my memory with proper training.
You can do it. Have you subscribed to this channel? We work on improving memory every day. :-)
Hey! 🤣 it’s me again do you meditate ? Cuz You’reeeeeee soooooo calm and Humbleeeeeeee
Btw i tried meditating and it relaxes me and makes me more positive . It was Awesome!
Thanks for checking this one out.
Yes, I meditate and have videos on the topic on this channel - including a long demonstration of memorized Sanskrit for meditation:
czcams.com/video/CgNQ9bU-nEg/video.html
Meditation and memory training go together in many ways. Highly recommended!
Anthony Metivier Cool!
Definitely dive in as deeply as you can. Meditation is the ultimate game changer! :)
Hey Antony, do guys like Ben and Alex still use memory palaces to remember like single image for every different 3 digit number or single image for 3 cards? Or do they go on learning more and more memory palaces to use them everywhere? In the beginning stage of being a Mnemonist I'm worried about the vast number of Memory palaces I'll need.
You don’t have to worry about anything like this, not ever. Here’s why:
czcams.com/video/m3CeaZtZpCM/video.html
Maybe Alex was told to play the double card method. At this time, is the 'double card method' correct to use 2 cards for P, 2 cards for A, and 2 cards for O in PAO?
There are quite a few variations. A PAO could get you three cards or even more depending how you use it. I’m not sure if the Shadow was around when we recorded this, but if you don’t know it, you might want to look into it.
Very nice
Thanks for checking it out, Gaurav.
Any key points stand out for you? :)
Learning the basic technique and designing own images for different systems
Excellent. Both key points! :)
Interesting, people, action and object for every 2 digit number.
Yes, and a unique image for each 2-card pair, forward and reverse.
The 00-99 PAO is taught in-depth in the Masterclass.
A new interview with Braden Adams is coming out soon where we get much deeper into what Alex is talking about too. Stay tuned!
How to be in present moment?
I often live in past and in future. During my lecture I often think if past and future; I then don't get the point. Even when I don't want to think other stuffs i can't control. What could be the possible solution to the problem.
Great question and wonderful that you're thinking about improving in this area, Avash.
I share the number one thing that has helped me above all for living in the present in this video:
czcams.com/video/dW8tHFiTVNY/video.html
I know it sounds simple, but practice it diligently and you will succeed.
For more, here are some more rigorous texts I've memorized to go deeper:
czcams.com/video/CgNQ9bU-nEg/video.html
Hope these resources help and look forward to hearing from you again soon! :)
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM thanks 😃
My pleasure - please let me know if you have any further questions around these matters after you go through those resources. :)
With the advent of AI, do u think in future u require memorizing stuff,watch Ted talk by arnav kapoor of MIT labs
Thanks for this question.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that humans are very bad at predicting the future. I really don't know. Anyone who claims that they do is likely in need of some humility.
However, I will say that memory isn't about memorizing stuff. It's about being able to think critically based on stored knowledge and create new knowledge. Humans will likely want to hang on to that aspect of the species.
the objective is to be equiped with all the tools you would need than to be wanting. AI is great all the same
I know that scientist know a very little of the entire picture of the mecanism behind of how our mind really works but...In your own experience/research Is there a posibility that, let´s say, "innatus genius" (since kids) use the same machanisms that are proposed for memory techniques but in a uncouncious or automatic way? Like the may create this images and associations but in a very shor fraction of time
Hi Carlos - this is a very good question, and likely, there is some relationship to the "elaborative encoding" done by people using memory techniques and what kids do on autopilot.
It's purely anecdotal, but I remember making lots of connections when I was a kid. I recall learning the word "hilarious," for example, and breaking it down into parts and thinking about a dirt hill in our backyard.
I also have a distinct memory of learning the word "ramification" from the movie Gremlins 2. I would have been 12 at the time, so a bit older, but still recall breaking it down in a similar way.
In any case, one can observe kids doing this without launching large studies. And the problem is this:
Kids, regardless of the techniques they are using, learning languages over years. They make oodles of mistakes across that period of time.
Adults, on the other hand, can pick up new languages in a fraction of the time and need not use trial and error nearly as much because they have mature processes they can rely upon.
In other words, even if kids are doing something similar at a faster rate, "faster" in many cases is quite suspect when compared to the feats of adults.
Does that make sense?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Those are good points! I may lost the sense in my question, sorry about that: I was trying to say about genius, people with Savant Syndrome, eidedtic , natural memorizers (and yes they could be kids) Seems to me that the difference between these and avarage people is that they do encode and make associations and all that process that mnemonic techniques do, they do it in autopilot. On the other hand overlearning may take a huge role but as Mr Alex says, in the context of academics this can't be applied in everything. The practical thing here it's that we may learn a lot from those "natural memorizers" also, for example Daniel Tammet who sees shapes, forms and even personalities in numbers but without trying
When it comes to savants and the like, there is some evidence that they are using elaborative encoding, not just or even exclusively some kind of "autopilot" process. Look up the case of Solomon Shereshevsky for notes on that.
"Overlearning" is also interesting. In the case of hyperthymesia, some people think that some level of OCD-like repetition is involved (see the case of Jill Price, for example).
As fascinating as all that stuff might be, far more fascinating to me is the trained memory of normal people - especially when they go on to contribute extraordinary things to humanity. That's ultimately the focus of this channel and I appreciate your support of it! :)
Another interesting and possibly helpful thing is to look at the roots/origins of languages, which is why Latin would, I'm sure, help with all the Romance languages; I'm sure one would find there are shared origins between many Asian languages.
Good point about looking to the origins, Daniel. Philology is an under appreciated tool of language learning.
I almost feel like NOT teaching people how to use these techniques is irresponsible. Not using these techniques when we know they exist, and they work...
its clear that remembering better as a doc/nurse/MW will make us better practitioners. If we know that memory techniques work, but are not taking the time to teach budding professionals how to use them... (IMHO) we are increasing the risk of causing harm through mistakes. Another thing, if we know these exist, but we are not implementing them in programs in the early years and then bogging down upper year students with difficult material and huge amounts of readings prior to kicking them out the door to be eaten alive by preceptors... is it really ethical for learning how to learn to continue to be excluded from our educational systems?
It is a question of ethics. I think the only way to promote change would be to train teachers so they actually use the techniques and teach them from experience.
Otherwise, teaching them just to teach them without experience would be equally unethical.
What do you think?