Pegging for Memorization

[pianoperformer]

Hi,

I've been working on memorizing the periodic table. Anyway I started with the first three elements last night, or well more information about the first two than the third but still...

Anyway I couldn't remember the atomic weight of helium, so I decided to use the pegging method I've been reading about to try to memorize it.

It really did work. I have to work on the art of creating really silly pictures, but I think mine was silly enough. And now I know that the atomic weight of helium is 4.0026024.

It was rather easy, too, because after the first few times of having to go through the pictures, now I remember it without much thought at all.

Just wanted to share. I think I'll be using this quite frequently now.

Hmm, I wonder though, how the picture scene can be tied into the actual thing being memorized. For example, I had nothing about atomic weight in my picture scene, so if I had a lot of them, I might not remember what it stood for. How can this be resolved, I wonder? The first picture was a very large rose, so I don't know how atomic weight can be related to that lol.

[maxdof]

Hi,



Check this:
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I am not sure I have understood your question.
How to represent 'Atomic Weight' ?
Do you have a picture for an atom? Let's say, a round comic guy, with electrons around him... ?
If so, you could consider looking for
- something to add to the atom: he goes HUGE, and HEAVY: he gains weight
- a word or a picture that sounds like weight, like "waves', and you could link the atom surfing on waves and maybe is becomes very big (gaining weight) and falls,
or make him "wait",
or make eight of them !
- a picture that makes you remember weight: somebody with weight problem? somebody known or a friend of yours always talking about his weight? or a balance (i am not sure about the name, the object you go on it to weight yourself), or a kitchen balance: I have a pinky one in my kitchen, that would suit me to represent "weight".

I advise you reading Tricks Of The Mind of Derren Brown, he explains everything about that. It is very well and nicely explained.

Oh, you want to link it to Atomic Weight to a large rose? Let's imagine our funny colorful atome guy surrounded by electrons, he is on the waves, riding hard under great sun and beautiful sky, but he is getting huge and huge, and you zoom you can see the details of the water flowing on him, on his legs, his feet, and ho! He is riding a petal of rose. It helps to add a feeling to the picture too, for exemple: Why is he getting big? What is he eating, eark, roses... This is disguting!

Good luck

[pianoperformer]

Yeah, I'm already familiar with those pages, thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions on the picture! those are some good ideas.

[Stu]

Pegging is fantastic, I only wish I had known about it when I started university, it would have been invaluable!

[maxdof]

Shool, university, who has been taught there to know how to learn?
Not me!
It seems that we are supposed to struggle to learn stuff... nobody told us how to properly use our memory, it's a shame.

I want to learn 'everything' now, I would like to use the Loci system to do that. I am looking for an advanced technique, my little idea now would be to imagine several doors in front of me, each one with a logo that represents an area I want to learn: geography, history, and so on.

Then, entering the room I would know with another link how many corridors or doors or windows or whatever are behind that door, and I would know what's behind of after them with a logo or any link. Etc...

You see? I would like to create a journey, a map, in my head, using locis, to store anything I want. It is not very detailed in the book of Derren Brown.

Do you have any idea?
Or maybe I will have to invent it myself, for me.

It is what I like in the system too, when you know the few rules, you can tweak anything so it suits you