The Victorious Mind: How To Master Memory, Meditation and Mental Well-Being

by Anthony Metivier

Hostesses who fret about Who sits where will find That those who mind don’t matter And those who matter don’t mind.

But each image is also inherently spatial.

Every ounce of preparation is worth a pound of ease later.

In my view, the most important trick you need is not a trick at all. It’s the habit of hitting the pause button. Pause to notice. Pause to follow the steps.

The fact that we tend to remember what we encounter first is called the Primacy Effect; remembering what we encounter last better is called the Recency Effect.

Von Restorff Effect—also called the Isolation Effect. It tells us that when a piece of information stands out from other information, it is more likely to be remembered.

The fact of default forgetting follows the old “use it or lose it” principle.

But when it comes to moving through a Memory Palace, the Magnetic Imagery you created during the encoding process never stays exactly the same.

You need delayed gratification so that you’re really exercising your imagination and memory.

The important point is that you’re drawing upon information, ideas, people and objects already in your memory.