In looking in all the ways litemind.com had to offer in imporving my mind. One of the more interesting exercises I thought would help me the most in times of need, is the exercise called the memory palace. The technique provides the user with an exellent way to assosiate phrases, names, and places with childhood experiences. This ineractive exercise lets you use your past to help you grasp new information. The idea is that you use a setting you are very familair with and you take a journey placing "memory pegs". Memory pegs is the device you want to remember and putting it in the setting. To make the word or phrase stick you must, "Make it crazy, ridiculous, offensive, unusual, extraordinary, animated, nonsensical — after all, these are the things that get remembered, aren’t they? Make the scene so unique that it could never happen in real life. The only rule is: if it’s boring, it’s wrong." So I thought this might be a fun and interesting way to study.
The example I used was the periodic table in my first childhood home. I began the experiment walking in the front door of my house and picturing the first element Hydrogen, as an H walking up the stairs, and as I turned to the kitchen dining room table to my left I see Helium, Lithium, Beryllium sitting there as their respected letters. So just like that I learned the first four elements walking in the first room of my home.
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