There are foods you need to cut out of your life to improve your appearance and fitness: processed food and sugars
Define your goal: do you want to be fitter (faster, stronger) or look better
On reading faster
Use your finger to follow your reading
Don’t read from margin to margin, your peripheral vision can allow you to see more words than you’d think
You can make visuals of what you’re reading in your mind simultaneously
On school education
You could build off associating numbers and letters with images to children, and enable them to have better memorising techniques during their life
Early visualisation techniques would be amazing to work with from the start
On intelligence
You don’t have to be a genius to be able to use these memory techniques
This is the way our brains should work, no-one just teaches us to do it
Memory palaces
We remember spatial information very well, and we are in spaces all the time - so we have these already memories
You can use these spaces to encode information
And they are essentially endless, you can always find new ones
It is a route you can imagine in a space you are familiar with (your home, a scene from a movie, a video game etc), you chose locations along the way and you place images along the way too
It seems like a complicated way to store memories, but it makes it stick extremely effectively
If you want to learn something short term (you don’t care to remember it again), you can reuse your memory palaces (by the time you reuse it, you’ve probably forgotten the information anyway)
If you want to store something forever, you do not reuse that memory palace - there is no interference with other information
Are best use for things that have order to them
Memory techniques will get information in your head, and they will be quite sticky. Reviewing is what will get that information to stay there
Memory techniques are shortcuts, but you still need to practice
Dominic system (for numbers)
You can use people instead of consonants: 15 - AE - Albert Einstein
Major system (for numbers)
You learn a consonant sound for each digit 0 to 9
You can therefore construct words by adding in vowels
Creating images for memorisation
The stronger those images are: bizarre, sexual, unordinary - the more likely you are to be able to memorise them
As soon as something happens that is incoherent with your current model of the world - that is when learning happens
How to memorise George Washington was the first president: Washing - washing machine, one - is an apple from your memory system, so you think of a washing machine washing a ton of apples
Memory techniques
Memory Techniques focus on being able to access information rather than committing it to memory - memory problems are rather filing and recall problems