Stuff I learned at the Melbourne CFAR workshop. Class name was offline habit training, i.e. actually performing your habit multiple times in a row, in response to the trigger. Salient examples: Practicing getting out of bed in response to your alarm, practice walking in the door and putting your keys where they belong, practice putting your hands on your lap when about to bite nails, practice straightening your neck when you notice you’re hunched. These are all examples I’ve implemented, and I have had good results.
Adding associations is a key part, too. For these examples, I imagine the alarm as an air raid siren and my house getting bombed if I don’t get out of bed on time. I imagine Butch being shot by Vincent in an alternate version of Pulp Fiction if his father’s watch wasn’t on the little kangaroo and he had to hunt around for it. For biting my nails, I imagine Mia Wallace being stabbed in the heart . The connection here is biting nails can make you sick. The vividness and intensity makes up for how tenuous that is. For posture, I imagine Gandalf the Grey compared to Gandalf the White (plus triumphant LoTR music).
Since I made that comment, I got about a third of the way through Moonwalking With Einstein, and practiced the Memory Palace/method of loci a couple of times. I’ve lived in a bunch of different houses, so that works pretty well for me. Some of the stuff that was mentioned sounds a lot like spacing techniques. “”[...] if you revisit the journey through your memory palace later this evening, and again tomorrow afternoon, and perhaps again a week from now, this list will leave a truly lasting impression.”
This is another bit of evidence suggesting that spaced repetition would be powerful in combination with mnemonics. What Anki provides, which is far more important than the flashcard thing, is testing. I’ve been thinking about applying some of the ideas from test-driven development to self-programming, and Anki cards would be a core part of that.
Sorry, I realize most of that isn’t relevant, but I hope the parts that were are useful.
Funny. I’ve used triumphant LoTR music once to overcome my terrible fear of heights. I was climbing mount Kathadin with friends (including passing along “Knife Edge ”), and the humming/singing out loud this music (+imagining a chopper-camera shooting from above) has completely effaced my fear.
Possibly being called “Legolas” during middle-school and high-school helped, too.
Stuff I learned at the Melbourne CFAR workshop. Class name was offline habit training, i.e. actually performing your habit multiple times in a row, in response to the trigger. Salient examples: Practicing getting out of bed in response to your alarm, practice walking in the door and putting your keys where they belong, practice putting your hands on your lap when about to bite nails, practice straightening your neck when you notice you’re hunched. These are all examples I’ve implemented, and I have had good results.
Adding associations is a key part, too. For these examples, I imagine the alarm as an air raid siren and my house getting bombed if I don’t get out of bed on time. I imagine Butch being shot by Vincent in an alternate version of Pulp Fiction if his father’s watch wasn’t on the little kangaroo and he had to hunt around for it. For biting my nails, I imagine Mia Wallace being stabbed in the heart . The connection here is biting nails can make you sick. The vividness and intensity makes up for how tenuous that is. For posture, I imagine Gandalf the Grey compared to Gandalf the White (plus triumphant LoTR music).
Since I made that comment, I got about a third of the way through Moonwalking With Einstein, and practiced the Memory Palace/method of loci a couple of times. I’ve lived in a bunch of different houses, so that works pretty well for me. Some of the stuff that was mentioned sounds a lot like spacing techniques. “”[...] if you revisit the journey through your memory palace later this evening, and again tomorrow afternoon, and perhaps again a week from now, this list will leave a truly lasting impression.”
This is another bit of evidence suggesting that spaced repetition would be powerful in combination with mnemonics. What Anki provides, which is far more important than the flashcard thing, is testing. I’ve been thinking about applying some of the ideas from test-driven development to self-programming, and Anki cards would be a core part of that.
Sorry, I realize most of that isn’t relevant, but I hope the parts that were are useful.
That’s exactly the kind of info I was looking for, thanks :)
Funny. I’ve used triumphant LoTR music once to overcome my terrible fear of heights. I was climbing mount Kathadin with friends (including passing along “Knife Edge ”), and the humming/singing out loud this music (+imagining a chopper-camera shooting from above) has completely effaced my fear. Possibly being called “Legolas” during middle-school and high-school helped, too.