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47 Post author: ancientcampus 10 March 2014 07:27PM

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Comment author: Baughn 10 March 2014 08:53:56PM *  8 points [-]

What would be a good introduction to memory palaces? What did you use?

Comment author: Ben_LandauTaylor 10 March 2014 09:28:21PM 12 points [-]

The video of Brienne's presentation at the South Bay meetup is the most useful guide I've encountered.

Comment author: ancientcampus 14 March 2014 02:21:29PM 2 points [-]

Truthfully: I tried and failed miserably when I tried shorter articles (eHow, wikipedia, etc). My study skills coach taught me; his name is Ryan Orwig and teaches medical professionals around the country; he's talked with memory champions and has ~10 years refining the technique specifically for medicine (but it works with any large body of facts, I think it would help with Law too). So, unfortunately there's no resource I can point to. I can't share his powerpoint, but I can make and share my own, which I will do when I have time.

That said, I just skimmed Brienne's presentation in Ben_LandauTaylor's link, and it seems to hit many of the points I like. I'll listen to the whole thing later to see what I have to add.

Link to Ryan Orwig's class, his travel schedule is on the right: thestatprogram.com