All I want is to remember that ācorrect horse battery stapleā is not my email password, because itās the only password I can remember these days.
Meanwhile, Iāve got zero interest in improving my memorization skill.
I spend a ton of time creating all kinds of odd mental objects for what Iām working on and turning them into input-output black boxes so I can stand back and connect disparate ideas, zoom and reassemble, and so on.
My mental user interface is basically the opposite of a āmemory palaceā. Itās more of a bunch of chunks of reusable code connected by whiteboards. Iāve got google for my memorization now.
And given how little competition I encounter in any work environment I end up in, I wouldnāt have it any other way.
I remember in the third grade or so (1990-ish), our teacher tried to introduce some system to help us learn our multiplication tables through associating various pictures with multiplication problems. I think the idea was if a picture was silly enough, we wouldnāt forget it and weād also remember the associated math problem. The one picture I remember vividly was a mother with a pizza on her head, which we were to understand meant 5x6=30 (or whatever).
It must not have worked because I donāt think we used the system very long. Iāve yet to encounter anyone else who remembers the system, so Iām half convinced I hallucinated it! My wife is an elementary teacher and sheās never heard of it either.
Isnāt this the exact same thing Mark posted one hour prior to this?
Something like that, but that book was published many years too late to be what we used in class.
To be fair, 8 year old phart was already a cynical bastard, so I donāt think I really embraced the system.
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