Mnemonics

[dreichelt]

Does anyone here use advanced mnemonics? I happen to use Dominic O'brien's system. He is a world memory champion. If anyone here knows what I'm talking about, I am searching for a quicker way to come up with places for my journeys. I find that it is difficult to come up with imaginary places and that I run out of places that I have been for use. I'm looking for techniques to quickly come up with places so that I can always have a ready supply; I find that this is a crutch for me using mnemonics right now. For those of you who do not use advanced mnemonics, I highly recommend it.

[ThisMoment]

That do you use these memory techniques for?

School, work, blackjack?

[dreichelt]

Originally Posted by ThisMoment

That do you use these memory techniques for?

School, work, blackjack?

You use these for everything and anything. Some examples:

1. Learn foreign words 4x faster
2. Names
3. Numbers
4. Information for classes

Dominic O'brien uses mnemonics to memorize multiple packs of randomly shuffled playing cards, for example.

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by dreichelt

Does anyone here use advanced mnemonics? I happen to use Dominic O'brien's system. He is a world memory champion. If anyone here knows what I'm talking about, I am searching for a quicker way to come up with places for my journeys. I find that it is difficult to come up with imaginary places and that I run out of places that I have been for use. I'm looking for techniques to quickly come up with places so that I can always have a ready supply; I find that this is a crutch for me using mnemonics right now. For those of you who do not use advanced mnemonics, I highly recommend it.

You can get the course at pmemory.com if you want.

It is similar, but it uses mnemonics that are much better and easier to use than the journey method.

[Manomanman]

I use my computer and pieces of paper to memorize things for me. I now spend my time making money instead of memorizing things.

I just quit school

[peterjmathis]

I used mnemonics to learn the kanji. They're really effective if you do it right.

[phob]

Mneumonics are great for memorizing things in the short term, but if you want to remember things forever, you have to remind yourself of the facts / vocabulary you learn, unless you use them in your daily life sufficiently. I use Anki, a free software spaced repetition program, to remember english and french vocabulary, and to memorize flashcards for school. It's pretty excellent!

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by phob

Mneumonics are great for memorizing things in the short term, but if you want to remember things forever, you have to remind yourself of the facts / vocabulary you learn, unless you use them in your daily life sufficiently.

If you memorize correctly, you can review the things you've memorized a few times within your own mind, and keep them in your memory forever - only having to review them eventually once every few months or so.

I would explain it but you can just read about it at pmemory.com. Everything on there is legit.

[dreichelt]

Originally Posted by Manomanman

I use my computer and pieces of paper to memorize things for me. I now spend my time making money instead of memorizing things.

I just quit school

Don't rely on technology. It is much better to have something that can help you in life no matter where you are. You could have nothing on you and still greatly benefit from mnemonics. Depending on what it is used for, mnemonics has the possibility of generating any amount of money. If you have a closed mind, you will miss out on the benefits of many ideas.

[dreichelt]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

If you memorize correctly, you can review the things you've memorized a few times within your own mind, and keep them in your memory forever - only having to review them eventually once every few months or so.

I would explain it but you can just read about it at pmemory.com. Everything on there is legit.

I don't understand why that course is so expensive? How much better could it be than Dominic O'brien's course which is only $40? He has been a world memory champion multiple times so how much better could this system be?

[Brutha]

He has been a world memory champion multiple times so how much better could this system be?

A system that's optimized for task such as memorizing structured information such as deck of cards that you need to become world champion isn't optimized for say learning biochemistry with doesn't have a fixed structure.

[juliensa]

Mnemonics can be good to a certain extent but only in order to memorize things in the short term ...

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by dreichelt

I don't understand why that course is so expensive? How much better could it be than Dominic O'brien's course which is only $40? He has been a world memory champion multiple times so how much better could this system be?

It's because the course actually works.

I have never seen Dominic O'brien's course but many pmemory students have done that, then done Phenomenal Memory, and every single person says that pmemory is 1000x better and more powerful.

Originally Posted by Brutha

A system that's optimized for task such as memorizing structured information such as deck of cards that you need to become world champion isn't optimized for say learning biochemistry with doesn't have a fixed structure.

Originally Posted by juliensa

Mnemonics can be good to a certain extent but only in order to memorize things in the short term ...

By lesson 23 of the Phenomenal Memory course, every student has memorized the following. They have to memorize this and recall it all with very few errors (less than 10 I believe) in order to continue with the next lessons.

LESSON TIMETABLE
1.1.1. Monday - mathematics, history, drawing, physical exercises and literature
1.1.2. Tuesday - English, geometry, history, mathematics and music
HISTORICAL DATES
1.1.3. Year 1398 - Timur invaded India and occupied Deli
1.1.4. Year 1703 - foundation of St. Petersburg
1.1.5. Year 1787 - adoption of US constitution
1.2.1.Year 1806 - Rein Union - Union of 36 Germanic states under the protectorate of Napoleon I
DATES OF EVENT BEGINNING/END
1.2.2. 1377 - 1399 - Reign of Richard II in England
1.2.3. 1650 - 1702 - Life span of English king William III of Orange
1.2.4. 1762 - 1796 - Reign of Catherine II
PRECISE DATES
1.2.5. 1396, 25 September - Battle of Nicopolis
1.3.1. 1346, 26 August - Battle of Crecy
1.3.2. 1389, 15 June - Battle of Kosovo
1.3.3. 1492, 12 October - Columbus discovers America
FACES, SURNAMES, NAMES AND MIDDLE NAMES
1.3.4. Distinctive feature "Earring". Louisa May Alcott
1.3.5. Distinctive feature "Hair". Holly Marie Combs
1.4.1. Distinctive feature "Beard". Brian Michael Cox
1.4.2. Distinctive feature "Cap". George Washington Carver
1.4.3. Distinctive feature "Shoulders". Nancy Jessica Parker
1.4.4. Distinctive feature "Bangs". Pamela Sue Martin
1.4.5. Distinctive feature "Tie". Steven Curtis Chapman
1.5.1. Distinctive feature "Ear". Francis Ford Coppola
PHONE NUMBERS
1.5.2. "Ward" cinema - 339-26-00
1.5.3. "Ankar" cinema - 123-77-58
1.5.4. "Paradise" cinema - 309-54-35
1.5.5. "Beach" cinema - 677-90-83
ADDRESSES
2.1.1. Dental clinic 56, Chromova Street, 9/2
2.1.2. "Vasenar" company, lighter service and refilling, Warsaw highway, 78
AUTOMOBILE NUMBERS
2.1.3. Richard Lee Bell, "l 232 pr"
2.1.4. Random car. Distinctive feature - "Dice on the front window", number - "c612lw".
BIRTHDAYS
2.1.5. SEPTEMBER: 15 - Kristine, 28 - Peter
2.2.1. JULY: 11 - Tom, 17 - Jordan
2.2.2.MARCH: 3 - Maria, 13 - Brandon Lee, 17 - Spears, 19 - "Crystal" (nickname), 21 - James Stone, 24 - Bruce

ANECDOTES
2.2.3.About a stingy Scotchman.
Phone conversation with Australia.
How to teach a sister to swim?
Two dancing hippos.
A secretary being late.

2.2.4...first he created Heaven and Earth...
...I spill more...
"Polite" chemist
Angel in boots
"Happy New Year" on 30 May

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
2.2.5.Rivers of South America: Amazon, Madeira, Atrato, Tocantins, Magdalena, Rio Negro, Parana, Uruguay, Orinoco, and Sao Francisco.

TERMS AN THEIR INTERPRETATION
2.3.1.ECLIPTIC is the apparent path of the Sun during a year as seen from Earth or a plane of Earth rotation around the Sun.

2.3.2.CEPHEID is a type of pulsating star that regularly changes its brilliance in a matter of several days.

2.3.3. PULSAR is a neutron star that radiates a fast sequence of radio waves.
2.3.4.PROTUBERANCE is a stream of hot gas, similar to a flame, coming out from the Sun's surface.

2.3.5. PARSEC is a unit of length used in astronomy; equal to 3.2616 light years.
2.4.1.THE KUIPER BELT is the area of the solar system extending from the orbit of Neptune where larger masses of icy bodies are capable of becoming comets.

2.4.2. QUASAR is an outstandingly powerful shining remote galaxy that looks like a star.
2.4.3.DWARF STAR is an old compressed star that has run out of fuel in its central area and is gradually dying.

2.4.4.ACCRETION DISC is a disc formed from the substance accumulated around a rotating star.

2.4.5.LIGHT YEAR is the distance that a ray of light covers in one year and is equal 9 460 000 000 000 kilometres (9460 billion kilometres).

COMPLICATED SIGNS
2.5.1. KU HI U I
2.5.2. SE TO TA MI
FOREIGN WORDS
2.5.3.AKAI - book
NIWA - garden
AKI - autumn
MIRU - look
OKURU - send
KUBI - neck

2.5.4.HITO - person
UTAU - sing
ITAI - hurts
SEITO - pupil
IKU - walk
MISE - shop


CONSTANT VALUES

3.1.1. Elementary charge: e = 1.60 пїЅ 10 (-19) C (coulomb)
3.1.2. Mass of an electron: m (e) = 9.11 пїЅ 10 (-31) kg
3.1.3. Gas mole constant value: R = 8.31 J / K x mol
CODES AND PASSWORDS
3.1.4. 4 84 2 0 7848 477 0 3 22 194 7848 292 0 21758 12 987
3.1.5. Safe code - 555503005
FORMULAS
3.2.1. The formula for the area of an isosceles triangle:
S =


3.2.2. Area formulas for a random triangle:
S = ; S = ; S =


S = ; p =


S =

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
3.2.3.What is the name of a long nerve cell branch?
Axon.

3.2.4.What is the membrane potential of a nerve cell?
70 millivolts.

3.2.5. What is a nerve cell axon branching phenomenon?
DIVERGENCE
3.3.1.What types of nerve cells are in eye retina?
Amacrine, bipolar, ganglion, horizontal, conus and bacillus.

3.3.2.What is the atomic mass, the number and the atom scheme of Al (Aluminium)?
The number in the Mendeleyev table is 13, atomic mass equals 27, and the atom scheme is +13 --- 2-8-3 (number of electrons on the orbitals).

3.3.3.What are the ordinal number and the atomic mass of silver (Ag)?
47 and 107.868.

3.3.4.What is the ordinal number, the atomic mass and the atomic construction of Chrome (Cr)?
24; 52 (+24 --- 2-8-13-1).

FAMOUS PEOPLE'S LIFESPAN
3.3.5.Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
Galileo (1564 - 1642)
Newton (1643 - 1727)

TRAIN TIMETABLE
3.4.1. 7 --- 09-21-37-54
3.4.2. 18 --- 02-15-23-45-58
3.4.3. 19 --- 05-12-31-40-49
INTERNATIONAL PHONE CODES
3.4.4. Australia (61): Canberra (62), Melbourne (3), Sydney (2)
3.4.5. Belgium (32): Antwerp (3), Bruges (50), Brussels (2), Gent (91), and Liege (41)
FACTOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
3.5.1.According to Polish statistics, an average Pole spends 91250 minutes, or 63.4 days, on shaving during 68 years of his life. Dressing and undressing takes 523 days and he spends 1046 days and 16 hours by the table.

3.5.2.In New York in 1977 statistics registered 24712 bitten people. Dogs bit people 22076 times, cats - 1152 times, person bit another person 892 times, rats - 542 times, bunnies - 40 times, lions - 3 times and ant-eater - 1 time. Statistics for 1984 are less complete. It is only known that dogs bit people 10659 times and a person bit another person 1593 times.

3.5.3.In Australia during a snail championship the participant number 806 finished the distance of 182 cm on a tartan road in precisely 19 minutes.

WEIGHT MEASURES
3.5.4. 1 lot = 12.80 g
3.5.5. 1 Gallon = 3.785411784 liters
TABLE DATA

WATERFALLS OF THE WORLD

Waterfall name Continent Height (m)
4.1.1 Angel South America 1054
4.1.2 Tugela Africa 933
4.1.3 Yosemite North America 727.5
4.1.4 Utigord Norway 610
4.1.5 Sutherland New Zealand 580
4.2.1 Victoria Africa 120
4.2.2 Iguassu South America 72
4.2.3 Boyoma Africa 60
4.2.4 Niagara North America 51
"PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM" TABLE

Planet Distance from the Sun (astronomical units) Rotation period around the Sun (earth years)
4.3.1 1 astronomical unit
is 149.6 million. km
4.3.2 Mercury 0.387 0.24
4.3.3 Venus 0.723 0.62
4.3.4 Earth 1 1
4.3.5 Mars 1.524 1.88
4.4.1 Jupiter 5.203 11.86
4.4.2 Saturn 9.539 29.46
4.4.3 Uranus 19.18 84.02
4.4.4 Neptune 30.07 164.52
4.4.5 Pluto 39.44 247.7
PERSONAL BLOCK OF INFORMATION
4.5.1. The "Spectacles" distinctive feature
4.5.2. Surname, name and middle name: Jones, James Earl
4.5.3. Phone number: 590-23-42
4.5.4. Address: Ocean Street, block 40, apartment 2
4.5.5. Car number: t 723 rp
4.6.1. Cell: 8-901-735-15-74
4.6.2. Pager number: 970-00-03
4.6.3. Telephone subscriber number: 62390
4.6.4. Office number: 421-30-06
4.6.5. Fax: 489-86-47

Just to clarify, each student has to memorize all of that, and write it onto a blank screen starting from nothing. (and if you reach Lesson 23 in Phenomenal Memory then you are quite capable of doing so)

[dreichelt]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

It's because the course actually works.

I have never seen Dominic O'brien's course but many pmemory students have done that, then done Phenomenal Memory, and every single person says that pmemory is 1000x better and more powerful.





By lesson 23 of the Phenomenal Memory course, every student has memorized the following. They have to memorize this and recall it all with very few errors (less than 10 I believe) in order to continue with the next lessons.



Just to clarify, each student has to memorize all of that, and write it onto a blank screen starting from nothing. (and if you reach Lesson 23 in Phenomenal Memory then you are quite capable of doing so)

I think I am missing something here. I can memorize all of that information using my current mnemonic techniques. I am getting an extremely vague idea of this method that is apparently 1000x better. Why is it better? I have used the techniques I learned not only to learn the order of a deck of cards, but information of all types. Just because memory champions memorize decks of card and similar items does not mean they cannot memorize anything and everything.

I must say I am extremely skeptical of this "miraculous" system. Why can you not explain in detail their method? I read some of the manual and it sounds like they use a lot of the standard techniques.

$300 seems a bit pricey for a bunch of online text especially when I don't even understand what it is due to the vagueness surrounding it.

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by dreichelt

I think I am missing something here. I can memorize all of that information using my current mnemonic techniques. I am getting an extremely vague idea of this method that is apparently 1000x better. Why is it better? I have used the techniques I learned not only to learn the order of a deck of cards, but information of all types. Just because memory champions memorize decks of card and similar items does not mean they cannot memorize anything and everything.

I must say I am extremely skeptical of this "miraculous" system. Why can you not explain in detail their method? I read some of the manual and it sounds like they use a lot of the standard techniques.

$300 seems a bit pricey for a bunch of online text especially when I don't even understand what it is due to the vagueness surrounding it.

I am not trying to sell you on it, so you don't have to be defensive. I am not an affiliate or employee of theirs.

I am just telling you that it works. AND, that every single person in the forum there that has used other mnemonic techniques has said the Phenomenal Memory is a better system.

I am just telling you what they said about it. There are plenty of students who have memorized entire books using it.

I also remember reading about one student who "faked" an IQ test by memorizing every possible question and answer to the questions on the test, and then going in and taking the test somewhere and they said his IQ was like 250+ when in fact it wasn't; he had just memorized all the answers beforehand. I lol'd at that one

Btw- There is a free area in their forums where anyone can create an account and post. Many students of the system will answer your questions there, and I believe there are a lot of topics where people ask if Pmemory is better than so-and-so and the answer as I recall has always been a resounding Yes.

[dreichelt]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

I am not trying to sell you on it, so you don't have to be defensive. I am not an affiliate or employee of theirs.

I am just telling you that it works. AND, that every single person in the forum there that has used other mnemonic techniques has said the Phenomenal Memory is a better system.

I am just telling you what they said about it. There are plenty of students who have memorized entire books using it.

I also remember reading about one student who "faked" an IQ test by memorizing every possible question and answer to the questions on the test, and then going in and taking the test somewhere and they said his IQ was like 250+ when in fact it wasn't; he had just memorized all the answers beforehand. I lol'd at that one

Btw- There is a free area in their forums where anyone can create an account and post. Many students of the system will answer your questions there, and I believe there are a lot of topics where people ask if Pmemory is better than so-and-so and the answer as I recall has always been a resounding Yes.

Ok thank you for the information. I think I will get in their forums so I can ask some questions I have. I don't mean to sound defensive it's just that this system does not sound legitimate, but if I talk to peopl in the forums I might change that conclusion.

[NemoPlus]

Originally Posted by dreichelt

You use these for everything and anything. Some examples:

1. Learn foreign words 4x faster
2. Names
3. Numbers
4. Information for classes

Dominic O'brien uses mnemonics to memorize multiple packs of randomly shuffled playing cards, for example.

Hello,

I've been using mnemonics for numbers since a few years, and it helped me memorizing A LOT when I studied in the University. I'm graduated now, but I still remember these nasty physics constants thanks to these mnemonics.

My method: I use the mnemonic major system. This is a well-established method where you map every consonant to a number, for example, the letter 'n' is '2' because there are 2 downstrokes. Then I used an online mnemonic generator to find keywords for my numbers.

[Agota]

I'm really interested in pmemory system, gotta check this out!