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mrock

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    Comment #47695270

    For most of ecom you lose money acquiring a customer, and can only hope to break even by emailing them and going for repeat purchases. A few ecom folks manage to acquire customers …

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    Comment #39603652

    Similar bilingual parent here. "C'est pas socier" and "Numberblocks" are excellent.

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    Comment #28672162

    It's basically impossible to run out of space. You can always go on a hike someplace to get another palace or journey. You can also reuse palaces in different contexts or weathers.…

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    Comment #28648039

    Getting started phase: was 15 min a day. Over-hyped phase: for some memory "projects" maybe 30 min a day. Now: I just use memory tricks all day long without really training. Howeve…

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    Comment #28646766

    That's awesome. Did it change your relationship with or experience of birds?

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    Comment #28646705

    >the latter is for putting impractical information You can also input practical information ;)

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    Comment #28646660

    If you want to learn more about indigenous memory techniques read: "Memory Craft" by Dr. Lynne Kelly and "Sand Talk" by one of the authors of the experiment in question.

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    Comment #28646630

    > Do you ever "refactor" you maps to show updated understanding? Or do you find that this happens naturally? Yes. I often add on things. So let's say I read a book and years later …

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    Comment #28646420

    In the renascence there was a standardized system of memorized hand symbols to recall music. For guitar you can memorize fingerings by creating a person action object system in a w…

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    Comment #28645653

    Cool idea. I'd love to check it out just to see how your concept works.

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    Comment #28645583

    What is "this" that you're referring to?

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    Comment #28645553

    I started by working through: "How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week: 50 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills" by Dominic O'Brien. It's got 50 short doable activities…

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    Comment #28644120

    Great idea. I do this in a notebook. Left page: a list of items to recall, right page: a quick sketch of the palace. Rooms are simple squares. If I can't go back to the palace, the…

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    Comment #28643321

    I used to try to do that. Now I keep a list of potential palaces and do everything just-in-time. Preparing a memory palace is just yet another skill. At first it seems like a big "…

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    Comment #28643195

    > So, for the sake of etymology I guess it would not be visualise but factualize or some other word. In terms of the process, it's like imagining something using all of your senses…

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    Comment #28642970

    Yes. There have been many follow up interviews with these researchers. It's an early "is this interesting" proof-of-concept study. But, they are getting funding for a study which s…

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    Comment #28642817

    Dr. Lynne Kelley the author of The Memory Code and Memory Craft has it. She uses memory palaces. With aphantasia you still have a hippocampus so thinking about the concept of space…

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    Comment #28642786

    > do you have one palace per book? Yes. Some people chain together small locations that in aggregate serve as a large palace > Many bullet points per location? At first I used the …

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    Comment #28642582

    Several memory champions have aphantasia

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    Comment #28642514

    I've tried both approaches. Some palaces are one topic only. Others have been reused >5 times. With the reused palaces, with intention you can sequential recall just that topic. It…

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    Comment #28642132

    I've trained my memory over the last ~5 years. I became fascinated with oral cultures. How could they transmit enough knowledge to survive and basically confer PhD level knowledge …

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    Comment #28404568

    This looks great. It seems like there are issues with sign up. There is no sign-up link on the home page. I found it via guest mode --> sign up. After clicking sign up,... there is…

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    Comment #18519347

    Would you mind linking to the page where we can find that reference? I couldn't find it in Ch14 or by searching. Thank you!