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Forgetting

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Creating a Memory Palace in the Imagination

If you can basically trans form information that's not memorable, into wild, crazy, funny, ludicrous images, and then visualize those images in an imaginary space in your mind's eye, you actually can hold really a unbelievable quantities of information. I didn't believe it until i tried it myself, but it actually, it really does work. After a year of doing the strain, i set a us. Record at the time by memorizing the order of a shuffled pack of playing cards in a minute and forty seconds. How on earth we've really terrific visual memories. And we have really terrific memories for space. If you are trying to remember a shopping list, what you would do is

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