I have read a lot of things about mnemonics over the years over mnemonics, but when it comes to results that people achieve I hear about winning memory championships but not impressive real-world results.
I don’t know of memorable cases where people who are high performers claim that the result they achieve is due to how good they are in mnemonics.
I’d say that’s because they aren’t specifically asked. High performers tend to naturally have photographic memories, and so it’s unnatural to conceive of anything else.
The high performers I’ve spoken to didn’t realise they had photographic memories until I pointed it out. One trick to test it, is talk to them and ask them something from long ago. Sometimes, their eyes will move right to left because they’re reading a picture in their mind.
I know at least one case of a high performer with photographic memory but the person didn’t use any mnemonics for it.
To the extent that you have other high performers with photographic memories, if they would have gotten that photographic memory via training mnemonics, it wouldn’t be unnatural to conceive of anything else.
I have read a lot of things about mnemonics over the years over mnemonics, but when it comes to results that people achieve I hear about winning memory championships but not impressive real-world results.
I don’t know of memorable cases where people who are high performers claim that the result they achieve is due to how good they are in mnemonics.
I’d say that’s because they aren’t specifically asked. High performers tend to naturally have photographic memories, and so it’s unnatural to conceive of anything else.
The high performers I’ve spoken to didn’t realise they had photographic memories until I pointed it out. One trick to test it, is talk to them and ask them something from long ago. Sometimes, their eyes will move right to left because they’re reading a picture in their mind.
I know at least one case of a high performer with photographic memory but the person didn’t use any mnemonics for it.
To the extent that you have other high performers with photographic memories, if they would have gotten that photographic memory via training mnemonics, it wouldn’t be unnatural to conceive of anything else.
True! Hence why I’m creating this guide; and I don’t critique people for doubting it’s outcome.