A charmed third time...
Mar. 7th, 2013 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI took advantage of a lull in this morning's work to visit the $10K Memory Competition page at Memrise after a three-day absence and take another crack at memorizing a 52-card deck.
Based on things I've noticed overall (and not just for this exercise), I decided to create a completely new "journey" through a familiar old haunt and to really focus on visualizing the people and actions representing cards in the "places" along the way.
Unlike previous trials, during which I had to really struggle to recall where people/action pairs were located, I was able to recall the sequence almost from the start, leaving me with about a dozen cards after the first pass. I then concentrated on going through the journey again, and yet a third time before turning to the handful of cards that were left and then "backfitting" them to the sequence (by which I mean taking, for example, the 3D, realizing this had been encoded as an action, and then asking myself exactly who is wearing a goatee and moving hands and arms like the legendary Mitch Miller?)
(Don't ask me who Mitch Miller was, okay? You'll make me feel old.)
I was surprised that the whole process of recollection took a lot less time than in previous trials, but that may be due to a greater familiarity with the "places" in the new "memory palace."
Naturally, I would not be posting a graphic unless the result was noteworthy (at least, for me :^):
And now, it's back to work (and other distractions!)
Cheers...
Based on things I've noticed overall (and not just for this exercise), I decided to create a completely new "journey" through a familiar old haunt and to really focus on visualizing the people and actions representing cards in the "places" along the way.
Unlike previous trials, during which I had to really struggle to recall where people/action pairs were located, I was able to recall the sequence almost from the start, leaving me with about a dozen cards after the first pass. I then concentrated on going through the journey again, and yet a third time before turning to the handful of cards that were left and then "backfitting" them to the sequence (by which I mean taking, for example, the 3D, realizing this had been encoded as an action, and then asking myself exactly who is wearing a goatee and moving hands and arms like the legendary Mitch Miller?)
(Don't ask me who Mitch Miller was, okay? You'll make me feel old.)
I was surprised that the whole process of recollection took a lot less time than in previous trials, but that may be due to a greater familiarity with the "places" in the new "memory palace."
Naturally, I would not be posting a graphic unless the result was noteworthy (at least, for me :^):
And now, it's back to work (and other distractions!)
Cheers...
