http://www.smartspeedreading.com These slides are from the Iris Speed Reading Classes & Memory Improvement Courses. Iris is the largest and leading provider of Speed Reading & Memory Improvement Courses in the United States. This course covers The Memory Palace System, also known as The Loci or Journey System.

1. The Memory Palace System
(aka The Loci or Journey System)
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Presenter:
Paul Nowak, Founder & Program Director
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2. What is a Memory Palace?
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3. What is a Memory Palace?
Also known as...
● The Method of Loci
● The Journey Method
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4. What is a Memory Palace?
The oldest known memory strategy
Dates back to 500 B.C.
First record of this memory technique:
In an ancient pamphlet: Rhetorica ad Herennium
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5. Spatial Memory and Your Brain
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6. What You will Need:
1. Familiar Place
2.Vivid Imagination
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7. Pick Something you Know Well
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8. Where To Start?

9. Walk Through Your Home
With a SPECIFIC Route
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10. Moving in Each Room
Create a system of moving in the
same direction in Each Room
Ex.: From one side of the room to
the other, or clockwise
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11. Notice Objects that you See
Pick Certain Objects that you can easily Recall
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12. When You Want To Remember
Information
Associate each piece of information
in the order it is to be remembered
within a location in the home.
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13. Example: Grocery List
Printer paper
Onions
Carrots
Hamburger
Ice Cream
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14. Application of the Memory Palace
Lists
Speeches
Things To Do
Reading

15. You Can Have Many Memory Palaces
Parents' House
Friend's Place
Workplace
Your Commute

16. Let's Recap
What do you remember as you
walked into your home?
Start at the front door...
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17. Grocery List
Printer paper
Onions
Carrots
Hamburger
Ice Cream
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18. Expanding Your Memory Palace
Add other buildings
Use locations within locations
(in the living room: couch, chair, fireplace, tv, etc)
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19. Summary
Practice!
Try using the Memory Palace
System to Remember Information
Once a Day for Two Weeks
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20. Thanks for Attending!
Contact Information:
Paul Nowak
pnowak@irisreading.com
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