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One of the most useful memory methods was developed by the ancient Greeks thousands of years ago. And the memory castle, a castle in the mind where you can hold all the information you need to keep in mind, is still valid today. This method is not only used by world record holders in championship competitions in memory; It is also the secret of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. With a little planning and practice, you can build your own memory castle.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Design the castle

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   Choose a place that you can easily visualize the castle design for. Memory Castle should be a place or route to which you memorize, such as your childhood home or the road where you go to work every day. This place can be as small as the wall cabinet in your room or as large as a neighborhood. It's important to have the castle in mind without actually having to see it.
   • Other places to choose from include school, church, work, a popular tourist destination or a friend's house.
   • The larger or more detailed the actual location, the more relevant information you can store in the memory space.

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   Go through the castle to determine the route. You should define the course of the castle, not just drawing a fixed location. For example, instead of just visualizing your house, imagine how you are going around the house. Do you enter the house from the front door? Which corridor will you go along? Which room will you go to? If you need to remember something in order, follow a specific path through the castle, in reality and in mind.
   • Starting to practice the route now will also make it easier to remember later.

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   Identify specific locations in castles to store information. Think about what you would put in the memory castle correctly, whether it be a number, a name or important dates you need to remember to take the test. You will store each data in a separate location, so you have to locate enough for the data you have. Each storage location must be different so as not to cause confusion.
   • If your castle is a route, such as a road to work, choose landmarks along the route, such as a neighbor's house, traffic lights, a monument, or a building. home.
   • If your castle is an architectural object, you should consider separating each piece of information into each room, then choosing smaller locations such as paintings, furniture or decorations.

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   Practice drawing the completed castle by drawing it on paper. Take out paper and sketch the castle or draw a map if it's a route. Mark the landmarks or storage locations you have selected. Close your eyes and try to visualize the castle in your mind, then check by comparing the drawings to make sure you remember all the locations and put them in the correct order.
   • Draw out the landmarks in as much detail as possible. Make sure the images in your mind include colors, sizes, smells, and every other recognizable trait.
   • If the image in your mind does not match the drawing, review the drawing a few more times and try to visualize it again. Repeat until you can get an accurate visualization.
   • Another way to practice visualizing the castle is to tell a friend. Take them along the way through the narrative while they look at the map you drew for comparison.
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Method 2 of 3: Put the information on the castle

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   Place important information in small sections of the castle. Put an easy-to-process amount of information in each position. Don't put too much information in one place, or your brain will be overwhelmed by trying to remember everything. If there is information that needs to be separated from the others, put it in completely different places.
   • If necessary, place the information along the route in the order you need to remember.
   • If the castle is your home and you want to memorize your speech, place the first sentence on the doormat in front of the door and the second sentence in the door lock hole.
   • Put your buddy's home address in the outside mailbox or in an envelope on the kitchen table. Leave their number on the sofa, where you would normally answer the phone.
   • If you're trying to remember US presidents in order, borrow from the washing machine to remember George Washington. Continuing through the laundry room you will find a pair of long john related to John Adams.

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   Use pictures to represent complex phrases or numbers. You don't have to put an entire string of words or numbers in a selected position to memorize them. All you need to do here is to position a certain image that evokes your memory and leads you to an idea you want to keep in mind. For example, if you want to memorize a ship, imagine an anchor on a sofa. If it was battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin, think of the Wisconsin cheese anchor.
   • Symbols are also a form of shorthand and are more effective than envisioning a real thing that you are trying to memorize.
   • Don't make the icon too abstract. If the icon doesn't have a clear connection to what you want to remember, it's useless, as it will be difficult to relate the symbol to the information.

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   Use people, emoticons, or quirky images to remember numbers. The things placed in the castle should be as easy to remember as possible. Often times, images that are weird or are associated with a strong emotion or personal experience are easier to remember. Can you imagine your mother leaving her social security number on the kitchen table or the puppy eating in a bowl with food as the words on your vocabulary test.
   • Suppose you need to remember the number 124. This number is not easy to remember, but the image of a spear with the same shape as number 1 pierces a swan (like number 2) and splits the swan into 4 pieces, albeit a bit. Trouble but will help the number 124 engrave in your head.
   • You don't have to choose positive images. Negative emotions or images, such as an obnoxious policeman, are equally powerful.

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   Combine other memory methods to recall sequences of information. You can come up with a sentence that reminds you of the first letters of the words in a phrase or create rhyming sentences containing the information you need to remember, and then put these truncated data in. Castle your memory instead of wordy phrases.
   • For example, suppose you need to remember the order of the notes on the treble clef (EGBDF). Imagine a boy eating chocolate candy, and this image evokes the first letters of the reminder "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge." (Any good boy deserves chocolate) .
   • A rhyming reminder, "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" (In 1492, Columbus sailed across the blue sea). " Imagine Columbus holding a blue toy boat in your living room.
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Method 3 of 3: Use memory castles

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   Spend at least 15 minutes a day exploring the castle. The more time you spend passing through the castle, the easier it is for you to recall its contents on demand. The images should come to your mind easily and naturally. Try to go through the entire route or sketch in mind a few times a day to visualize the castle from start to finish.
   • For example, imagine the writer James Joyce sitting in your toilet as if he belonged there and became a bathroom ornament, not just an imaginary image. This scene will help you remember that James Joyce is a famous author of toilet jokes.
   • The best part is that you can practice anywhere anytime, as long as you close your eyes.

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   Recall information by passing the castle or looking around. Once you've memorized everything inside the castle, you just need to recall it by following the route or imagining a room. With practice, you can start anywhere in the castle or walk along a route to recall a specific information.
   • If you have to remember your girlfriend's birthday on March 12, just go to your bedroom and imagine a trio standing in bed and singing "12 o'clock".

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   Clean up memory castles when data needs to be refreshed. A memory castle is reusable many times. You just need to replace new information into existing ones. After some practice, you will quickly forget about old data and remember only new data.
   • If the castle becomes too large or contains information no longer needed, delete that data from the route.

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   Build new castles for a variety of topics and information. If you have new information to remember, you don't have to delete all existing memory castles but just build a new one. Please put the old castle in the archives and start building another castle in a new location. Once saved to your brain, memory castles will exist as you wish.
   • For example, you might have a home that holds the names of US presidents, a path to work that stores phone numbers of friends and relatives, and your office will contain the content of the post. you must give a speech tomorrow.
   • There is no limit to the number of memory castles you can create.
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Advice

• Be patient. Memory Castle is a very effective tool, but it is not necessarily easy to grasp.
• With the help of a computer, you have many ways to build virtual castles, or you just need to choose from the many artifacts available online and go on a virtual tour to wherever you want to go. . The effect will be stronger than the drawing and will help you etch into your memory.
• At world championships in memory, the top contestants have to remember the order of the 20 cards shuffled in an hour and more than 500 random numbers in 15 minutes, among other events. It is unlikely that they have "a better memory" than us; They only learn and practice many recall tips (memory aids) to improve their ability to quickly learn and recall all information.
• There are many books and products to help improve memory that teach how to build memory castles. However, these can be expensive and not effective for everyone. You can take the steps described above to save money.
• There are many variations of memory castles, such as the Roman Chamber and Journey. They are all based on the Loci method, which is based on the notion that humans have a very good memory of location, and it is easier to remember information if one can associate abstract concepts or Novelty ideas with a familiar location.