Nelson Dellis

I didn't think I could memorize that.

And lo and behold, I did just by Nelson walking me through this very seemingly easy exercise.

Sure, so it dates back thousands of years.

This is a technique in some shape or form that ancient civilizations would use to remember the things that propelled their knowledge forward by generation.

And what they did is they attached

associations or imagery for the things they wanted to remember to actual locations that they could visualize or that they were familiar with in their mind.

So translate that to modern day.

What is a memory palace?

Well, you can imagine your home, for example.

It's not a palace, or maybe it is.

I don't know.

But it's a place that you know very well.

If I ask you to close your eyes and walk from the front door to your bedroom in your mind, that's easy.

It's not like you sat down and memorized it.

You just know it because you live there and you go through it hundreds and hundreds of times in a year.

And so we can use these familiar places as a piggyback to store information.

And so when I'm memorizing cards, I'm choosing a memory palace.

I'm looking at the first few cards and turning them into pictures and attaching it or imagining it at

the first location of this memory palace.

And then I go in my mind to the next place in the memory palace, which after I walk in the door, maybe it's the entryway to my house or apartment.