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I thought this was interesting, but it’s getting merged away, so before it disappears into something else:

Throughout my interest in mnemonics and memory training, the biggest ‘achievement’ I believe I’ve succeeded in was memorising all 1,025 Pokémon at one point. This was made possible large in part to memory techniques, but it also uncovered something I both haven’t seen much at all, and am equally interested in seeing if anyone else has come across it.

To memorise all 1,...

While studying my main process for now seems to be some skimming to make a mind map and then reading more of the material. I am still trying to find a highly effective process for understanding. (See this). At least, mindmaps seem better tha...

I love The Chess Memory Palace by John Holden, but I am not especially keen on using the Major System as the foundation for chess move encoding. I therefore started wondering whether a more Dominic-style person system might work better for me — although this is not the system Dominic O’Brien himself recommends for chess.

Before I go too far with it, I would re...

When books mention light regarding phatasams/charaters/objects etc what do they mean? Should i think about a character well lit or a scene or place well lit, or do they mean make the character as realistic as possible with many attributes and properties (lots of things that tie to other memries) or something I haven’t mentioned.

Noting, I do not have a visual memory so...