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The Memory Palace System (aka The Loci or Journey System) Presenter: Paul Nowak, Founder & Program Director Welcome to the Webinar! www.irisreading.com
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How To Improve Your Memory: The Memory Palace System

Nov 01, 2014

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Page 1: How To Improve Your Memory: The Memory Palace System

The Memory Palace System(aka The Loci or Journey System)

Presenter:Paul Nowak, Founder & Program Director

Welcome to the Webinar!

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What is a Memory Palace?

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What is a Memory Palace?

Also known as...● The Method of Loci● The Journey Method

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What is a Memory Palace?

The oldest known memory strategy

Dates back to 500 B.C.

First record of this memory technique:In an ancient pamphlet: Rhetorica ad Herennium

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Spatial Memory and Your Brain

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What You will Need:

1. Familiar Place2.Vivid Imagination

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Pick Something you Know Well

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Like Your Own Home

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Where To Start?

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Walk Through Your Home

With a SPECIFIC Route

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Moving in Each Room

Create a system of moving in the same direction in Each Room

Ex.: From one side of the room to the other, or clockwise

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Notice Objects that you See Pick Certain Objects that you can easily Recall

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Core of your

Memory Palace

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When You Want To Remember Information

Associate each piece of informationin the order it is to be remembered

within a location in the home.

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Example: Grocery List

Printer paperOnionsCarrots

HamburgerIce Cream

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Application of the Memory Palace

ListsSpeeches

Things To DoReading

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You Can Have Many Memory Palaces

Parents' HouseFriend's Place

WorkplaceYour Commute

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Let's Recap

What do you remember as you walked into your home?

Start at the front door...

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Grocery List

Printer paperOnionsCarrots

HamburgerIce Cream

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Expanding Your Memory Palace

Add other buildings

Use locations within locations(in the living room: couch, chair, fireplace, tv, etc)

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Summary

Practice!Try using the Memory Palace

System to Remember Information Once a Day for Two Weeks

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Thanks for Attending!

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