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What are the best books about mnemonics?

>> No.12328972

Mnemonics never work for me, am I retarded?

>> No.12328982

>>12328972
No, You're normal. Mnemonics doesn't fucking work; It's Magical thinking superstition like dianetics, 12 rules for life and the Fire Sutra. Barely above The Secret.

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>>12328958
Roll em
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.html

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Keep those doggies rollin
scholarly, really well-written

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Rollin rollin rollin
this is like How to Read a Book, but for mnemonics
author was a great basketball player

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Here’s that basketball player when he was in college
Socrates and Plato were fags, not that there’s anything wrong with that
but the very few true scholar athletes might be better role models

>> No.12329651

>>12328958
mnemonics work
are they the be-all and end-all?
not for me at least, but obviously I spent a lot of time exploring the topic (always enjoyable)
Frances Yates (the scholarly book) credited even Shakespeare and his unnatural creativity to his using a memory palace

>> No.12329660

I forget

>> No.12329925

>>12328982
Why do you think that? The results of memory athletes seem to prove you wrong, given that most of these aren't biologically unordinary people

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Don't forget De Oblivione, by Constantine the African.

>> No.12330094

Thirty Seals & The Seal Of Seals by Giordano Bruno

>> No.12330128

Carruthers is wonderful.
Yates is cool.
Vost (Memorize faith) is very nice since it's p much an exercice book.

>> No.12330156

Mnemonics seem more cumbersome than just "conventional" memorisation to me. I can commit a paragraph to memory verbatim in a few minutes, is there a point to these complex methods unless you're trying to memorise something arcane like the numbers of pi?

>> No.12330570

>>12330156
for me it is just a way to hold more information steadily until i figure out how it is actually connected at which point it becomes crystallized. you can probably just as easily achieve the same result making reference to paper or screen stored information but i've always been suspicious of external crutches. also if as you mentioned the information is scant of meaning, mnemonics become a necessity.

>> No.12330652

>>12330156
Do you use surreal, taboo images with mnemonics? They work best
You can’t use mom and pop images, unless you have a strange mom and pop
Yates credits Shakespeare’s originality to his using a memory palace