(Read the story "How a memory champ's brain works" here)
Background: World Memory Champion Ben Pridmore...10 minutes to memorise seven packs of playing cards and then recite them in orderan hour...an hour for 27 packs - 1,404 cards...Other records...memorising a single pack of cards in 26.28 seconds; memorising in 15 minutes an 819-digit number; memorising in 30 minutes a binary number of 4,140 digits; Dominic O'Brien, eight-time world champion.
so what did they say?
"Think in pictures, because the brain remembers images better than it does anything else,"
Mr Pridmore's suggested strategy for remembering people's names involves picturing them in a scene made up of associations to their names.
“In effect, you are tricking your brain into believing it is experiencing something ”
"Memory is made up of associations...strawberry might prompt thoughts of tennis at Wimbledon, pick-your-own farms and everything but the dictionary definition of a strawberry"
"Think visually....Fill in as many little details as you can..."
"...method of loci...journey technique...imagining a familiar journey, and placing along that route the pictures associated to the information being memorised - a person should then only have to replay the journey to recall the information."
last but not least...
Loci systems, peg systems and number / image systems were taught in schools and academies up until the time the Christians took over Europe and decided that such practices were akin to black magic...
It's no big deal if someone tells you we human beings are not on a one-way progressive path, there are plenty of supporting evidence out there...
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