Memorizing Thousands Of Words Is Easier Than You Think!
Here's a recent question about memorizing 3000 words.
Ultimately, it sounds like this person wants to make the Magnetic Memory Method more complex than it needs to be.
See what you think:
Here's what he writes:
Hi,
I bought your book, it was great but I did not understand one thing.
(I am sorry for my english, I am trying to learn it in fact)
I am ok with the idea of building a memory palace (26 houses, and 10 rooms in each house).
BUT, how do I proceed if I want to learn 3000 words ?
It is impossible at least for me to create 3000 rooms! Even a memory champion who designed a memory course has 1000 place for him to play with (50 journeys of 20 places).
Please can you help on this point ?
Do you re-use the same journey ?
Thank you in advance
Here is my reply:
Thanks for your message!
First of all, your English is very good.
How To Create Thousands Of Memory Palace Stations Using Imaginary Bookcases
But here's the deal:
Once you are more practiced with the basics of the Magnetic Memory Method, you can do very interesting things within rooms. Imagine, for example, having a bookcase in a room and placing 5-10 words on each shelf. You can work from top to bottom or bottom to top.
Every room can have a real or imagined bookcase. Depending on your skill level, your rooms can have multiple bookcases. Let's say that you decide upon having 10 bookcases per room in a 10 room memory palace. If each bookcase has 10 levels and you store just one word per level, then you have a room with 100 words in it, with 1000 words total when you add all the rooms together in just that one Memory Palace.
Get Started NowYou can get started on a memorization project like this today merely by picking a room that you are very familiar with and mentally building and installing a beautiful bookcase. For the sake of this example, let's say the bookcase has 10 shelves.
Decide in advance if you will memorize from the top to the bottom, or the bottom to the top. I would go from the top to bottom myself, but go with whatever works for you.
The point is to move in a linear progression without skipping shelves. As ever, you don't want to cross your own path or somehow trap yourself as you move from station to station and word to word
As a beginner, help yourself out by picking ten words that proceed in alphabetical order, i.e. ten words that start with "an," or share some other similarity. That way, you've eliminated a detail you have to remember because you already know how the next word will start.
It's also good to have a key image connected with a "bridging figure." With "an," for example, you could have Annikin Skywalker, or Anne of Green Gables or anything concrete and visual that you associate with "an."
Now as it happens, I've just been working on a portion of my 'A' Memory Palace devoted to "an" words in German (or words that change meaning when "an" is added to them).
Keep An Eye Out For Memorable WildlifeOne of my 'A' Memory Palace starts in a home my mother used to live in down a forest lane. But by now, I've got so many items, I've wandered out of the house and have made it halfway to town along a 30km road.
For the purposes of this example, I'm going to place an imaginary bookcase right in front of the peacock farm (yes, there really is a peacock farm and you have to slow down when driving past it because it is part of a school zone).
Now, to set myself up for even greater ease and success, I'm going to focus on words that start with
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