“Sometimes the names fit perfectly, for example a bald headed white Thomas could be the middle age monk Thomas von Aquinas. When Reinhard hears a name for the first time, he imagines someone else (a familiar figure) with the same name and then try to find similarities between the two or associate it with a feeling. Reinhard uses the “association” method to memorize names and faces.

He holds two records for memorizing a 52-card pack of playing cards in just over 21 seconds. German memory champion Simon Reinhard is one of the top memory athletes in the world. Germany: Memorizing Names Through Association Nelson Dellis, repeat champion of the USA Memory competition, also uses a combination of vivid imagery linked with placing those images in your Memory Palace to remember a list of words.Ģ. With practice, a mnemonist can trace a certain path around these memory rooms to recover thousands of images – and with them, thousands of memories. To ensure that, be sure to deposit these images you’ve created using elaborative encoding in a specific order in your Memory Palace. So long as it really works to give you the memory improvement outcomes you seek! Of course, why someone would waste time on memorizing shopping lists in the best memory improvement books is beyond me.īut feel free to memorize anything you like. Memory expert Ed Cooke – who helped Foer develop his techniques – suggests remembering an item on a shopping list by imagining something like “Claudia Schiffer swimming in tub of cottage cheese.” all you need to do is visualise them in an unforgettable manner. The memory trick that Foer explains in his book involves a process known as “elaborative encoding.” This involves converting information, such as your grocery list, into a series of “engrossing visual images.”įor instance, if you want to remember a list of objects like gherkins, cottage cheese, etc. Sadly, Foer also documents the decline of mental exercises for memorizing in modern life.īy the same token, with partial thanks to his book and the internet, the techniques that people need to adopt to restore the art of remembering have never been more popular.

US memory champion Joshua Foer’s book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything talks about the importance of memorizing events and stories in human history. (And Elaborative Encoding) For Total Recall With that point in mind, let’s get rolling with… Study them well, everywhere they appear around the glob. Memory techniques give you the best mental exercise on the planet. But you can’t decide for yourself without the fullest possible range of perspectives.Īnd let’s make this point as clear as possible: This week, we’ve got 7 more mental exercises you can use to experience true memory improvement.

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