Yup, you heard that right, we thought passive reading of the textbook was the best way to study. They looked at me with a coy expression, "I read it five times." I remember one year while studying for a history exam, I walked up to a friend outside the testing room feeling smug, folded my arms, and asked, "how many times did you read the book? I read it three times." The worst part of studying by far was having to memorize. As a result, I lacked passion and interest in what I was studying. Instead of learning for the sake of learning in itself, I learned to get the best grade on the test. If you don't want to forget it, you'll want to make sure you walk around your imaginary space regularly.Aidan’s Infinite Play 33 The Ultimate Guide To Creating A Memory Palace For Studentsĭuring high school and the start of college, I got forced assignments, tests, essays, quizzes, and homework. If I need to remember this for a limited amount of time, I'll just repeat the route a couple times a day until it's okay for me to forget it. Now that you've finished placing everything, walk around your route a couple times, making sure you didn't forget anything, and making sure you know what each item is associated with. Repeat step 5 and 6 until you've gotten everything into your space! I like to go back through the route and look at everything (simultaneously stating the names of the items I was trying to remember) before placing the next item as repetition is a big factor in how well you remember this. Or ya know, in the right spot depending on the order. If you're trying to remember an order, make sure to place it as close to the start of your earlier established route as possible. Take that thing that first thing you just created, and pick a spot in your space that you want to place it.
Make sure when you're imagining this crazy thing that you take some time so you can see it as clearly as possible. If it's the number 4, I like to do the whole rhyming thing, so I'd imagine a door with the number 4 painted a bunch of times all over it. What you're going to want to do is either picture the item in your mind or pick an association if it's an idea instead of something physical, except here's the catch- make it as outrageous as you can possibly imagine.įor example, if it were a feather, imagine a small bird cage filled to the brim with birds feathers flying everywhere. Look at your list of items and pick one to focus on at a time. This is where you're going to be inserting all of your items that you're going to memorise, so make sure you have as much space as you can to place them. I usually walk around my space in a counterclockwise circle. Now you're going to want to make a path around your imaginary space. When I've done this, I like to take one more trip around and say out loud what I'm passing so I can make sure it's really solid. Don't worry about putting in unnecessary details like what books you have on your shelf or what you have written on your whiteboard. Take some time to walk around it, maybe clear up the clutter and make sure all the furniture is cleared off. Make sure you can clearly see the building you picked in your imagination. If you have enough time you can even try to build a completely imaginary space that you can familiarize yourself with. I like to walk around my room, my house, or one of my friends' houses, but it can be anything. Next, you're going to want to pick a room or house that is familiar to you. I especially like practicing this with Kim's game- ya know, the game where you try to memorize a bunch of items on a tray before the time is up?
This can be anything from a list of words or numbers, to faces, facts, or combinations.
Pick a list of items you want to memorise.
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