Advances in my memory

It's been a while since my last post. I will make sure to update more frequently. Over the last few months I have continued on my training to make my mind crazy elite. As I have said before I think too much time is spent acquiring knowledge only to be lost. So why not increase the mind's capacity for growth.

Here is some of my growth over the last few month:

Remembering Names- I went to two parties in the last two weeks and met a lot of new people. i separated myself because I remembered every name of everyone I met. At Susie & Jessie's party I met about 15 new people. And even after a few drinks, I could still remember their names. At Judy's party, I only knew two people, almost started a fight and met 12 new people and remembered all their names

It still remains to be seen if I will remember the names next time we meet, but it is still a good start.

Remembering lists- Over the last month my sisters and I have been getting lists of 20 items 15 minutes before dinner and then quizzed on them after dinner. After a slow start, I am able to remember at least 15 of them. I still am not fast enough in making my associations. Some times I am real fast, most of the time not so much.

Reading Facial Cues- I restarted my training on being able to read baby language in everyone. I still get at least 80%, but too many times I mistake surprise for fear, they are so similar.

I am really starting to notice a difference. I feel like my learning is starting to accelerate. Also I am getting a cd to help with my training in Chinese. I have been slacking of late and need a jump start.

Best wishes

Overcoming boredom

One of the issues I have found with self training is boredom. I find it hard to focus for any length of time. It gets tiring practicing alone all the time. Since I have been working on bettering myself for a while now I find I get bored quicker. So I am now starting a two fold plan.

1)I am going to start training Nicole with me. She doesn't know it yet.

2)I am going to get an egg timer and practice for 10 minutes bursts everyday starting tomorrow.

I am hoping with these changes I can start making sustainable progress.

Mentat Training

I have been looking at methods of training to further my mind. Here is what I found out.

1)you should do a work out before learning.

2)You are better off doing 5 subjects at 10 minutes per subject every day, than do 1 subject for 50 minutes.

So I am going to focus on learning my piem for only 10 minutes at a time.

I am up to 12 numbers. I am having issues converting the numbers from the piem.

See you next time

Memory Feats

This week I plan on tackling an interesting memory feat. I plan on memorizing pi to the thirty second decimal. Right now I can take pi to 3.14159, but I feel the need to go much further. There are obviously many methods for this. The one I am going to use is to make (or memorize) a piem. Its like a poem only it pertains to pi.

The trick to memorize Pi with this method is to memorize sentences in which each word's length represents a digit of Pi. This method can only be used up to 31 digits after the decimal point, because the 32nd digit after the decimal point is 0.

A couple of classic examples are:

1. May I have a large container of coffee?
2. How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.
   One is, yes, adequate even enough to induce some fun and pleasure for an instant, miserably brief.

Most likely I will just memorize an already made poem since my ability to pick words seems a little lacking.

I am still working on the Major System, just have to keep stacking learning methods.

See you later

Bobby

Early Struggles

Well we are well into my second day of mastering the Major System. I am far from a master. I reread the hack last night and found it would be better to use nouns than verbs because its easier to create mental pictures.

So my ability to pick words needs some major work. That is okay, this is a marathon not a sprint. I got my checking account number and I am trying to make a sentence with it. Very difficult, but on the bright side I pretty much have my debit car number memorized. Next up will be my passport info.

While I am having issues with picking good words, I feel I have down the conversion.

For example the "conversion" turns into 728402. I only needed to look up the v.

I like this method because it forces me to expand my vocabulary also.

See you later

Major Upgrades

Well my first hack has gone well. I have begun to learn the Major System. It is a system that allows you to convert numbers into letters and make words out of it. For example if you wanted to remember a phone number say 704-555-8314. Each number turns into a consonant, then we make a word.

So 704 becomes K S R and the word I make is Kisser

555 becomes L L L and the word(s) I make Lolly lie. As you can see I still need practice with making words. In my defense 555 is not a real phone number.

8314 becomes F M S R and the words I make are Fame Sir.

So we have Kisser Lolly Lie Fame Sir. I realize how lame this is. Now just make some picture with these words.

Now I started to create these words for important numbers for me. Like my bank account number and credit card numbers. I figure it I will come in handy if I get thrown in jail when I go to Costa Rica. I will keep on practicing tonight.

Keep on living the dream.

Mind Hacks

Last night I picked up Mind Performance Hacks from the bookstore. It is rare for me to go to a bookstore since I have a kindle, but some books aren't available. I started reading it last night and guess what happened. My mind has already started to go into different paths. Right now I will practice at least one hack a week until I go to my workshop in December. And will post the results.

My first hack will be Hack #5 The major system.

See you later with results