Build your Mind Palace
This next method might seem a little silly, but it’s actually extremely efficient. It’s called The Mind Palace. Basically, you have to create a space in your mind where you can storage all sorts of things. If you think about your house, don’t you have a visual representation of your kitchen or your bedroom? A special place where you keep the mail or the towels?
Well, the mind palace technique is very similar to that. For you to memorize better a certain information, you have to give it a meaning in your head. The mind palace is a virtual space or room in your mind that hosts all sort of stuff, you can arrange them as you want and where you want. If you ever need to remember something you might have forgotten, this might be the way to do it. Here are some ways to create your mind palace:
- First, you have to choose a place that you are very familiar with it. It might be the park next to your home, or your office.
- You have to create a map very well established, so you can follow the road in your mind palace and know where to find the info.
- You can try out with a simple list of groceries: try arranging them into your mind palace and see if you remember where to find them
- Take mental pictures with all objects in their places. Exaggerating those images might help.
