Difficult to Remember Lessons? Try the Remembering Method "Mind Palace" ala Sherlock Holmes

Many students feel that to understand a lesson is not easy, especially if the lesson is a theoretical lesson related to the power of memory such as history.

Humans have different memory powers. For someone who has a strong memory of course theoretical lessons are not including difficult lessons, but unlike the case with someone who has a weak memory. The person is likely to hate theoretical lessons, as it is difficult to master them.

If you are a troubled person in remembering a thing, but want your memory to increase, then you should try the mnemonic method called Mind Palace. Mind Palace or commonly referred to as Method of Loci is a reminiscent technique popularized by a fictional detective named Sherlock Holmes.

The Mind Palace method has proven its effectiveness as it is often used by participants and annual winners in the World Memory Championship. This method uses visualization techniques to organize and remember information. With this method we associate the things we want to remember with a picture of a place or location that we already know well.

Here are 7 steps to improve memory by using Mind Palace method.

1. Choose the Location Place You Want
   
   In choosing a location where there are three options you can choose. First, the real location you've seen is straightforward and can be remembered by your memory. Second, a fully fictional place that you can make with imaginary and imagination. And thirdly, the place can be a combination of the real location and the imagination. This location should be the most familiar to you and can be imagined.

2. Sharpen the Visualization of the Place Design
   
   Once you've chosen a place, the next step you have to do is to re-enforce the visualization of the place clearly and in detail in your mind, whether real or fictional.

3. Determine Initial Route
   
   This route is very important, because you have to remember the order well. You need to know the starting route very clearly, just like whichever way you go and what you've been through.

4. Imagine the First Object Has a Strange Being
   
   This mnemonic method will work better on the "first thing imaginable in your mind" of the peculiarity of this thing. The more strange and more unique the object is the easier you remember it. In the strange object, insert a thing you want to remember there.

5. Walk Near You First Object
   
   Begin walking in the castle of your mind. The way you can do it with lightning or slowly.

6. Associate (Linking) First Strange Objects First with Second Strange Objects and so on.
   
   After determining what the first strange object is and where it is, then the next thing you must do is to define the second strange object and connect it to the first strange object according to the initial route you choose.

7. Repeat Sufficiently Fighting Your Place Up to Strong Memory

Explore the palace of your mind repeatedly for you to get used to and make the memory stronger. Those are seven ways to improve your memory by using the Mind Palace method. Good luck!