Love this question about "friction" learning raised by the polymathic Andrew Mayne.
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Love this question about "friction" learning raised by the polymathic Andrew Mayne.
One dojo within another.
Delighted to hear this score by one of my old uni friends and publisher of one of my chapbooks back in the day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPN_...
I wish he'd told me about it sooner.
Fantastic!
This is absolutely fascinating! A whole new world opens up around memory.
This is the kind of "od" question I love to ponder on my "oddy knocky," as Burgess might put it.
Need to look up the spelling though...
An email from a fabulous new memory fanatic today wanted to ensure that I'd heard about The Memory Code.
Which reminded me that I hadn't updated the discussion page about this epic books with @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social in a long while.
Remedied!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/the-memory-c...
Just remembering the time a 10-year old told me how she memorized all of Shakespeare's plays...
In historical order!
That was with her dad on ye olde Magnetic Memory Method Podcast many years ago.
Prepare for inspiration!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/tap-the-mind...
I learned recently that being replaceable begins when you stop practicing the very thing that made you sharp in the first place.
youtu.be/U1GH0teKTLo
Many people try to remember names by sheer force.
But names are slippery... until you give them something to grip.
Try this instead:
When you meet “Sarah,” imagine a Sarah you know (or know of) sailing through a syrup storm.
It works best when you use someone already known in an unusual way.
McLuhan died in the 80s.
Are we getting the memo yet?
Hugh of St. Victor gets it.
There are people capable of knowing.
They just prefer not to.
A true mnemonic system isn't merely about storage.
It generates.
Not just long-term recall, but the associations that ignite it.
Like a living machine of thought, it spins chaos into order and meaning.
Forget filing cabinets. Build engines.
The future of memory lies in its past.
NAZCA, PERU
Fantastic new research into Nacsa Lines and the associated cultures. All totally consistent with my writings about the area being a knowledge space.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Every great thinker I've studied was...
WEIRD about learning and productivity.
Michelangelo and all those corpses?
Shelley writing "Frankenstein" on a dare?
Maybe it's time to stop asking how to “optimize” your learning and creativity.
Start asking:
What makes you impossible to ignore?
Book cover of Libraries of the Mind by William Marx.
This looks super-interesting.
Indigenous knowledge systems in Fashion and Textile education
I am fascinated and delighted by Dr Alexandra Sherlock's use of ideas from my books for her university teaching.
She has written this up in a wonderfully readable piece on her website:
alexandrasherlock.com/alexandra-sh...
Learning to conquer the morning so the day might also be conquered is one of the best things I ever did.
Procedural builds up around it so strongly that it moves from hassle to something one craves.
I try to get at least one in every day.
Physical books too so it's also "digital fasting."
Just minding my own business, reviewing some Latin declensions...
I don't want to have takes on things.
Editing my latest "Memory Detective" novel.
Hard work, but it'll be worth it.
The hardest part is putting aside the worry that it'll disappoint everyone who loved part one.
Sequels tend to suck, after all.
But I'll do my best to make sure this one bucks the trend.
Did you know that you use the ancient art of memory...
Even without trying?
If you know where your fridge is, that's at its core.
More on how to amplify this simple principle:
medium.com/@MagneticMem...
Mind mapping is one of my favorite ways to generate dozens of ideas.
I based the way I do it on some of Tony Buzan's ideas.
But generally, I use a clocklike structure so that most mind maps can be used as Memory Palaces.
That way, the ideas that arise stick.
If enlightenment is real, Michael Taft has the scientific know-how to find it.
A portal into our discussion of using portals on this epic quest:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/michael-taft/
That time Tony Buzan got me to doodle before signing his classic, The Memory Book.
Memory Skills for the Mindful Entrepreneur:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/memory...
The answer to the question I just received is, as usual, "Yes, but it depends..."
Gödel on how to perceive the material reality of an infinite set, as related to Rudy Rucker.
'Tis the point to have bad hair. Remember?
Reminds me of Umberto Eco's policy. Which I have followed to my heart's content.