The Memory Course

Course details

The Memory Palace technique, AKA the Method of Loci is a very powerful tool for us mortal humans to learn vast amounts of facts, figures, lists and words that seem impossible. This course guides you to be able to use the Method of Loci by building your own imaginary journey and associating memorable images with each place.

You don't need to have an amazing memory like Rain Man and you don't need to take hours reciting - you just need the ability to visualise and the willingness to learn!

We'll actually apply the method by memorising Asia's countries and their capitals in alphabetical order. At the end you'll be able to reel off the countries and their capitals forwards, and often backwards too! You'll know that Azerbaijan's capital is Baku and that South Korea's capital is Seoul - without Googling it!

We'll look at applying this method to anything you want to memorise in the future, and discuss how creating a memorised list becomes a 'frame' that future learning can be built upon - memorising a structure within a subject makes learning the rest of that subject easier and more interesting.

I've built this course using pictures and occasional animations to help the memorable visualisations stick in your head easier, and I've provided links to supplementary information should you wish to further your learning both for the geography element and the Method of Loci technique, BUT I've deliberately kept the course quite short in time - I want you to see how quickly you can memorise things and I want you to have more time to go out afterwards and apply your new memorising technique.

Heres the course outline:

1. Introduction
2. Discuss the Method of Loci
3. Lets create our first Memory Palace journey
4. Mapping out our journey (you will need paper and pens)
5. Asia - Afghanistan to Indonesia
6. Recap
7. Asia - Iran to North Korea
8. Recap
   
9. Test yourself
10. Create an additional stage to our Memory Palace journey
11. Asia - South Korea to Pakistan
12. Recap
13. Test yourself
14. Asia - Philippines to Saudi Arabia
15. Create the last stage to this Memory Palace Journey
16. Asia - Singapore to Yemen
17. Recap
18. Test Yourself
19. Using your new memorised information as a frame for learning
20. Creating more Memory Palace journeys