Memorise 15x More - Modified Memory Palace/Method of Loci | STUDY CLINIC
Summary
TLDRThe video script introduces a powerful memorization technique, particularly beneficial for medical students and professionals, known as the method of loci or memory palace technique. The speaker demonstrates a modified version of this method, which involves creating absurd and interactive elements within a familiar environment to enhance recall. The script provides a step-by-step example using causes of abdominal pain, illustrating how to transform a list into a vivid, memorable journey. The technique is emphasized as a high-yield tool for rote learning, with the potential to memorize up to a hundred items effectively.
Takeaways
- 📚 The script introduces a memorization technique particularly useful for medical students and professionals, emphasizing its high efficiency in saving study time.
- 🏰 It demonstrates the 'Method of Loci' or 'Memory Palace' technique, a traditional memorization method with some limitations for studying purposes.
- 🔄 The speaker introduces a variation called the 'Modified Method of Loci', which is more effective for studying and overcomes some of the limitations of the traditional method.
- 📝 The speaker uses a list of causes of abdominal pain as an example to illustrate the memorization technique, showing how to create and remember absurd and interactive elements.
- 🎨 The importance of creating vivid, absurd, and interconnected elements in the memory palace is highlighted to facilitate better recall.
- 🧠 The memorization process involves associating these elements with the information to be learned, similar to recalling a detailed TV show episode.
- 🔑 The speaker emphasizes that the elements should interact with each other and be spaced out effectively within the memory palace.
- 📉 The script mentions that while the technique is powerful, it should be used as a last resort, with a preference for understanding and logical learning over rote memorization.
- 🔍 The 'Modified Method of Loci' is explained as a way to adapt the environment to the memorization needs, making it more flexible and avoiding the issue of running out of places in a traditional memory palace.
- 🎭 The modified technique involves creating an environment as part of the absurd event, which can be visualized like a painting, and does not require the memorizer to navigate through it.
- 📈 The speaker shares personal experience with the technique, noting the ability to memorize up to 250 items after investing time, and the low rate of forgetting once memorized.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video script?
-The main topic of the video script is a memorization technique known as the method of loci or memory palace technique, and its modified version for effective learning, particularly useful for medical students and professionals.
What is the method of loci?
-The method of loci is a mnemonic device that involves associating items to be remembered with specific locations in a familiar environment, allowing the person to mentally 'walk' through the environment to recall the items.
What is the modified method of loci that the speaker introduces?
-The modified method of loci involves creating an environment as part of the absurd event instead of navigating through a pre-existing 'palace.' This modification allows for a more flexible and personalized approach to memorization.
Why is the method of loci beneficial for medical students and house officers?
-The method of loci is beneficial for medical students and house officers because it can significantly reduce the time required to memorize large amounts of information, such as causes of abdominal pain or other medical knowledge.
How does the speaker demonstrate the method of loci in the script?
-The speaker demonstrates the method of loci by memorizing a list of causes of abdominal pain using a series of absurd and interactive events within a familiar environment, which helps in associating and recalling the information.
What are the key principles of the method of loci as described in the script?
-The key principles of the method of loci as described in the script are creating absurd and distinct elements, ensuring these elements interact with each other, and spacing them out within the environment to facilitate easy recall.
How does the speaker ensure the elements in the method of loci are memorable?
-The speaker ensures the elements are memorable by making them absurd and interactive, creating a vivid and immersive environment that can be mentally navigated to recall the associated information.
What is the advantage of the modified method of loci over the traditional one?
-The advantage of the modified method of loci is that it allows for a more personalized and flexible approach, where the environment or 'palace' is created as part of the memorization process, adapting to the specific needs of the information being learned.
Why is it important to not rely solely on memorization techniques according to the speaker?
-According to the speaker, it is important not to rely solely on memorization techniques because true understanding comes from making sense of the information logically. Memorization should be a last resort for information that doesn't fit into a logical framework.
How can the modified method of loci be applied to other areas of study or professional development?
-The modified method of loci can be applied to other areas of study or professional development by adapting the environment to the specific content being learned, creating a personalized and immersive experience that facilitates memorization and recall of complex information.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Memorization Techniques
The speaker introduces a high-yield memorization technique particularly useful for medical students and professionals, emphasizing its time-saving benefits. The method of loci, or memory palace technique, is presented, along with a modified version tailored for studying. The speaker demonstrates the technique by memorizing a list of causes for abdominal pain, using absurd and interactive elements to create a vivid and memorable scene.
🔍 Demonstrating the Modified Method of Loci
The speaker provides a detailed demonstration of the modified method of loci, showcasing how to memorize a list of medical terms related to acute abdominal pain. The process involves creating a vivid narrative with absurd events that interact with each other, allowing for better retention. The speaker successfully recalls the list in order, highlighting the effectiveness of the technique even under the pressure of a live demonstration.
🎨 Creating Absurd and Interactive Memory Elements
This paragraph delves into the specifics of creating absurd and interactive elements for the memory palace. The speaker explains the importance of each element's distinctness and their interdependency to form a coherent and memorable scene. The narrative includes a step-by-step walkthrough of the absurd events created to memorize the list of medical terms, emphasizing the need for a well-spaced and immersive environment.
🛠️ Utilizing the Modified Method of Loci for Studying
The speaker discusses the application of the modified method of loci for studying, especially for those dealing with large volumes of detailed information. The modified version involves creating the background and environment as part of the absurd event, thus eliminating the limitation of running out of places in the traditional method. The speaker also addresses the importance of not relying solely on memorization but using it as a last resort when understanding is not possible.
🌐 Adapting the Environment to Memory Needs
In this paragraph, the speaker further explains the modified method by emphasizing the adaptability of the environment to the memorization needs. The environment, or 'palace,' is molded to the elements being learned, creating a more personalized and effective memory aid. The speaker also touches on the practicality of the technique for those who may not be good at drawing, stating that even simple representations can be effective for recall.
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Keywords
💡Memorization Technique
💡Method of Loci
💡Medical Students
💡House Officers
💡Acute Abdomen
💡Appendicitis
💡Gastroenteritis
💡Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
💡Nonspecific Abdominal Pain
💡Memory Palace
💡Absurd Events
Highlights
Introduction to a high-yield memorization technique for medical students and house officers.
Demonstration of the method of loci or memory palace technique with a modified version for more effective studying.
Selection of 'causes of abdominal pain' as a sample list for memorization demonstration.
Explanation of the traditional method of loci and its limitations.
Technique of creating absurd elements to track events for memorization.
Importance of associating events with information for better recall.
Use of vivid imagery from favorite TV shows to enhance memory retention.
Practical example of memorizing medical terms related to anatomy.
Live demonstration of memorizing a list of 20 medical terms.
Recall of memorized items to showcase the effectiveness of the technique.
Description of creating an environment or 'palace' for the method of loci.
Guidelines for creating absurd, interactive, and spaced-out elements in the memory palace.
The concept of 'priming' as a preparatory step for memorization.
Differentiating between memorization and understanding for effective learning.
Modified method of loci that integrates the environment into the memorization process.
Overcoming the limitation of running out of places in the traditional memory palace technique.
Importance of drawing and visual representation in the modified memorization technique.
Incorporating the memorization technique into study tools like mind maps and flashcards.
Emphasis on the memorization technique as a last resort when understanding is not possible.
Transcripts
let's move on now to a memorization
technique now this is gonna be really
useful for medical students house
officers this is the type of
memorization technique that can save you
honestly like just ten ten to fifty
times the amount of time that would
normally take you to learn this so this
is super super really really high yield
and in order to demonstrate this oh I'm
just gonna get a list of of something
and it doesn't really even matter what
it is so I'm just gonna find a list and
then I'm just going to show you and what
I'm gonna demonstrate right now is the
method of loci or the memory memory
palace technique but then I'm gonna show
you the variation of it that I teach
which is why I just call it the modified
method of loci and this is actually more
effective for studying related purposes
because the traditional method of loci
technique has a lot of limitations so
let's decide to memorize something like
I'm just gonna go causes of abdominal
pain and I'm just gonna try to find a
big list that I can go through and
memorize you guys can have a look at
this as well if you just search for
causes of abdominal pain and Google
Images and I've got this thing here that
looks like this which I'm sure you'll
get to see soon it's just a it's just a
list of causes it's done in alphabetical
order
but we can shuffle that order around
cool so if this is what I need to
memorize it and I'm gonna use as a
method of loci technique which is I'm
just gonna create absurd elements that
are gonna stack together in order for me
to just keep track of events that are
occurring rather than the actual content
itself so by keeping track of the events
I can associate that with the
information and so it's kind of like
saying you know if you think of up like
an episode or a scene of your favorite
um like a show TV show or something more
like it you know some Rick and Morty
episode or whatever then you can
probably play that episode in your head
and there's actually a lot of detail
that you're remembering there you know
you might remember the color of
furniture the position of different
people what they were doing what they
were saying how they were moving you
might remember all of these different
events and actually those events can all
be tied to a different specific element
and we can use that and our studying and
this is indeed the way that I would
memorize pretty much anything that needs
to be just rote learnt there's not that
much stuff like that and pre-med per se
but especially in the mid with anatomy
and things like that this is really
useful so it's gonna go through this
it's gonna it'll take me a little while
cuz there's a number of items on here
but I'll do enough just so that you can
see what it's like so I'm just gonna get
into the mind frame and all right cool
okay yeah so the first one is acute
abdomen so again so we've got a question
here what's a good way to prime I'll go
through that in just a second I'll just
demonstrate this first so acute abdomen
is the first one so you can write this
down along and chick-chick me if you
want and then the second one is
appendicitis the third one is biliary
colic / cholecystitis the fourth one is
bowel obstruction the the next one is
diverticulitis
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then it's extra abdominal causes of
abdominal pain
you
okay and gastritis and peptic ulcer
you
then gastroenteritis
okay then gynecologic pain sorry if
these words already make sense to you
but I want to demonstrate this so again
this is just the causes of acute
abdominal pain you can search it on
google images is one from ResearchGate
it's done an alphabetical order so yeah
so after gastroenteritis this guy
analogic pain and then hernias and then
iatrogenic pain by the way iatrogenic
means induced by like clinical like in
like healthcare induced
and in inflammatory bowel disease
and then
these
and then
and no specific abdominal pain
they're nonspecific abdominal pain and
pregnant woman and then uncle logic
which is cancer pain
and
in others and then pancreatitis
renal colic and then urinary tract in
fiction so I was probably doing that a
little bit more rushed because I want to
just demonstrate it but let's see how
many of these I get right so phones off
now so these are the causes of acute
abdominal pain and so it just starts off
with acute abdomen appendicitis
cholecystitis slash biliary colic bowel
obstruction diverticulitis extra
abdominal causes of abdominal pain hip
tech Oh / gastritis gastroenteritis kind
of logic pain hernias iatrogenic pain
inflammatory bowel disease liver disease
nonspecific causes of the Domino pain
nonspecific causes of abdominal pain and
pregnancy
uncle logic pain others
pancreatitis of renal colic and then
final one is your entry tract in fiction
yeah yeah so I think that was everything
I'll see if I missed any I didn't I
didn't cool so that was that was all of
it and in order so that's a memorization
technique that can be used for I was a
bit nervous there actually I've done
this like hundreds of thousands of times
and I've never had to do it on live
stream before so it was good that I
actually managed to get it so that was
at the moment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 items and I'll
recall this later as well later in the
stream just to show that I've still
remembered it and if I took a little bit
longer maybe 10 to 15 percent longer to
do that I will probably have to
comfortably get to sort of 50 items if I
spend a little bit more time I'd
probably just be able to work my way
through at about a hundred items doing
that so the way that I do that is I
create an environment that I'm very
familiar with and that environment is
what the what we call a palace and in
that environment I create these absurd
events that occur and these absurd
events I actually what I remember so let
me just go through what I did to
remember that now it's obviously helpful
for me because I know what those terms
mean but presumably when you're studying
something you would know what the terms
kind of mean as well because it's your
field of study so in that example so the
first thing was acute abdomen I remember
so my kind of journey and peles was
going into my office so I just thought
of walking down the street and then
suddenly I see a guy down there and he's
just gets impaled through the abdomen
out the door and in order to fight
against this thing that's impale him he
actually rips out as appendix and throws
it at the door which is rupturing this
little bio filled sac which is the gall
bladder which pours out all this gunk
/ the person who impaled him as this guy
is kind of like melting from this bile
he he closes the door and blocks it up
so that's acute abdomen appendicitis
cholecystitis eyes biliary colic and
this was now bowel obstruction and the
next thing is well I can't get in
through the door anymore because it's
obstructed so I need to go in through
the carport so I'm going in through the
carport and I see the elevator is red
and hot and burning and steaming that's
because of diverticulitis inflammatory
condition there's a circle on the ground
that's always there in the office and
suddenly all these spikes come out from
around the circle for extra abdominal
there is a elevator directly in front of
that which has all these acid holes in
it to represent peptic ulcers and then
suddenly bursting out of the elevator
all these bacteria and viruses
representing gastroenteritis in fiction
and then in order to escape that I dive
into a pool of amniotic fluid and swim
my way downstairs and it's kind of
collage ik pain all the way down until I
find an opening which is the hernia I go
out through that I open the door and I
can't I can't open the door and the end
you want to float a sign it leaked out
through the hernia behind me so I'm I
get a knife and I cut it into the
Dorset's hydrogenic pain and then I use
that to open the door I see inside
everything's on fire because of
inflammatory bowel disease I closed
these huge middle doors because liver
tastes like middle and then I have
random people talking which is the
nonspecific Domino pain and then I hear
a baby crying which is nonspecific
abdominal pain and pregnant woman and
then all these tumors start growing out
of the walls and North to not suffocate
I run through it which is oncologic pain
and I see a bunch of people staring at
me very scarily those are the others and
then I look out the window and there is
a particular drawing that I drew for
pancreatitis years ago and so I see this
guy staring at me who's also very freaky
that's pancreatitis I grab a set of
kidneys that are on the disc which I
previously have drawn as nunchucks to
defend myself and then I see the window
outside just fill with urine
which is urinary tract infection and so
there's a few principles that must be
adhered to each element needs to be
absurd as you can tell the elements need
to interact with each other have
interdependency so for example I'm not
picking up the nunchucks on this I'm
afraid of the pancreatitis man and that
pancreatitis man doesn't go away unless
the urinary tract infection washes him
away where I stand inside the room is
determined by the fact that there are
others inside that room and I can't
escape because there are tumors that
have blocked that passage right so that
those elements all interact with each
other
similarly the elements at the beginning
you will remember or maybe you won't
remember they interacted with each other
so so the second thing is that all those
distinct absurd elements need to
interact with each other and the third
thing is that it needs to be well spaced
out I can't have all of this happening
in front of my office door because it's
just too much it's gonna be too dense I
need to space it out so I have chained
these absurd events in interaction so if
I were to navigate through this palace
again I would be able to cut through
that tumor I will be able to look at
that liver door see the fire see where I
cut the door open like I'm living in
this immersive environment I can travel
within it which means that that
knowledge is freely available to me in
pretty much any order that I need it to
be in so I could do that order backwards
I could you know if someone were to read
that list out for me I'd be able to
immediately tell when one was missed
because it's just very obvious and so
this technique can be used for pretty
much memorization of any list so I think
the most out of even memorizing one go
is like two hundred and fifty items
which took me a solid like two and a
half hours to actually get to but it was
like I mean it was effective like I you
don't really have to learn it much after
then if you do forget your rate of
forgetting is very small so I think you
can tell that I still remember all of
those items after doing that this is
still at the end of the day a
memorization technique though and so
with all memorization techniques it
needs to be kind of last resort right so
you need to make sure that you're not
just resorting to memorization for
everything that you're learning you need
to make sure that you
only memorizing the stuff that didn't
make sense to you in the first place if
if you can make sense of it you win
right if it's logical you win like you
don't need to memorize that like if I
throw this cup against the wall it's
gonna shatter or the walls gonna get
damaged it's just logical it makes sense
you don't have to create a memory palace
to memorise that right so that's what
you want that's ideal as that's the type
of understanding you ideally want to
strive for and that's where things like
priming and those learning and layers is
so effective because that's the type of
learning that that develops there will
inevitably be certain things that don't
fit in anywhere else that you need to
just memorize again at a first-year
level the volume of information is not
really that great first years watching I
know that you're shocked to hear that
but it's really not so there's not gonna
be that many things to memorize and huge
lists but a lot of the second year third
year medical students doctors people
studying for the specialist training
exams there's there's potentially huge
lists of very detailed information to
memories and this is how you can do it
now
what's the modified version of this
method of loci the modified version is
you remove the palace and actually you
build the background and the environment
you build the palace as part of the
absurd event so if there was so you'll
notice that the elements kind of that I
created had a certain character to them
you know it had some sort of weird story
that I was navigating through well
instead what I'm gonna do is I'm not
gonna navigate through the story anymore
I'm gonna observe the story unfolding in
front of me like a big painting and
whatever the story is inclined to become
I'm just gonna make that the environment
so if I'm learning something and it just
so happens that the thing that I'm
learning
feels like a you know I end up getting a
lot of army related elements that I
create then I I would create a
battlefield looking environment I'll use
elements in the battlefield as part of
my memory
um Palace 8 so if I needed to memorize
something and I can relate that to like
a tower I might create a huge towel with
like a bunch of military people inside
it like that in itself the environment
itself the palace is actually being
molded to my needs and there
once it's in my head I spin literally
like one or two hours actually drawing
this out like really patiently slowly
drawing it out and a lot of my students
will say like hey I'm not really good at
drawing can I still do this trust me
I've had a lot of students and not all
of them a good drawers most of them are
not good drawers even if you can just
create random a scrappy stick figures to
represent the idea it's enough all you
need to do is just be able to look at
and kind of man remember what you were
imagining the prettier it looks the
bitter but I've seen some pretty
horrible looking drawings in the past
that are being highly effective so so
use that and then put those into your
mind maps put those into your flashcards
things like that and that's that's the
modified technique where you take the
palace out of it the problem with the
palace is that you run out of places
like I just use my office right now that
means I can never really use my office
for anything like
again ever and you just run out of
places eventually
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