Reading notes: "The Moon Walk with Einstein"

Reading notes: "The Moon Walk with Einstein"

Buy "with Einstein Moon Walk" this book has forgotten who the recommendation, has not remember when to add to my GTD reading list, in Beijing on a business trip with this book, the first 4 chapters introduced many stories and memories of the principle, quickly turn to the 5th chapter began to read, with the author began to remember the exercise, Quite magical, the book of 15 pieces of irrelevant items, I can even remember, and 2 weeks later, these things are still placed in my memory palace, so in Beijing since the acceptance to the bookstore and bought another 2 books about memory, I do not want to become a crazy brain athlete, Just want to see if I can memorize some numbers in these ways, or help your child remember some historical, geographic, and biological knowledge.

Author Choshua Fore is a journalist, after watching a memory contest produced a strong interest, began to explore his memory can also be improved, through hard, scientific training and the guidance of experienced coaches, a year later unexpectedly won the American Memory contest champion.

The 1th chapter: Genius is difficult to find

power can be quantified, but the brain's quantification is not so easy. When someone says you're smart, he doesn't know the definition of "smart", is it your reaction? Will solve complex mathematical problems? Or a good memory? Casually find a skill, such as chess, I am an amateur player, and professional masters directly can not be chess, and more amateur players, they will think I am a master. Your good chess does not necessarily mean you are smart, you just paid the effort, you read the experts to write chess books, study the Way of others, in practice to understand some of the merits of the law, your chess power in the rise does not mean that you become more and more intelligent, just that your head of the chess library is more and more large, for chess, chess, son force value , kill law, layout and the endgame have a deeper understanding. Perhaps the so-called cleverness is that your research in one field is deeper than the average person.

Many memory masters face the reporter all say: "In fact, memory is a few skills, you have to understand how to remember things." Everyone can actually do it, really, do not cheat you ... "I was listening to the words began my memory image coding, see a year after my digital memory level is not improved.

"Memory Palace" is also called "Travel memory Method", or "position memory method".

Donny Bozing, a guru of the modern memory world, said that "the mind actually needs exercise as well as the muscles." Rote memorization is a rough and painful way of putting people's impressions of things into their heads through constant repetition. And the memory is different, it helps people to remember by some skill, this way makes people feel more comfortable, faster, the process is not so painful, and memory remains longer. back the word for more than 5 years, some words repeated many times or can not remember (in SuperMemo called Leech leech, blood sucking insects), it seems necessary to summarize some skills, before my back method is a mechanical repetition, Now when you come across a new word, think about whether you can turn it into a more interesting image or an interesting story.

Action: Some of the word's memory methods are organized here.

"People think that memory loss is a normal thing, so let it go." This idea is logically wrong, because ' normal ' does not necessarily mean that memory should be reduced. People's memory is declining because the way of memory training is not correct. " a question worth thinking about, the modern child, like a child 30,000 years ago, is a blank sheet of paper." Now the information age has created a lot of data, to let a person in the limited life to remember, understand the data is not itself unreasonable? Does it really have to be something like a cell phone, as an assistant to the brain, to guide people's behavior? According to GTD, a little something is left to the system to remember, freeing the brain.

The 2nd Chapter: People who remember too many things

Ordinary people have a remarkable memory, at least in the reception of certain information outside the time is such, ordinary people's memory of the image is really strong.

An extraordinary memory of the reporter S can not forget, anything can quickly in his mind to carry out associative memory, his greatest pain and our ordinary people are not the same, is "How to forget", a thing like engraved in his mind, want to remember it turned into trouble, really envy such person, feel completely can make up a science fiction. A summary of this story, is forgotten rather than memory to create a person's thinking , if the world to become more meaningful, we must learn to filter information, thinking is actually forgotten . So deep!

The 3rd chapter: the Master in the master

This chapter in detail from the primary chicken sex Appraiser This career talk about, did not find that the world has such a career, but also a high-paying career! Here again, Eriksson's research, "If a person wants to achieve world-class top level in a certain field, it will take at least 10,000 hours to train himself". The way experts look at the world is different from the average person, something that ordinary people can't see, and these experts can see that it's easy to track down the most important messages and then almost automatically react to what's next. " we can not remember the facts of isolation, only to remember the fact that there is a link ," The Chess pieces for the master can not remember, he did not find a similar chess game in the past, can not be converted to a meaningful block, he and ordinary people see the same, are mess.

4th: The most forgetful person in the world

EP is a person with super amnesia, he has reached a morbid state of wisdom, an abnormal Buddhist ideal life----live forever in the present.

If I lose my memory, will there be time? This time is not the time physicists say, but a psychological time, that is, the speed at which human beings feel the passing of life. How to prolong this psychological time? is to remember something more. In chronological order, add some more iconic events to my life and make myself more sensitive to the passage of time. The monotonous life compresses time, the novelty experience lengthens the time. It is important to change your habits regularly, to go abroad for a vacation, and to update the memory base with fresh experiences whenever possible. The fresh memory prolongs the mental time and prolongs the life we perceive.

5th chapter: Memory Palace

The first reading is this chapter, the most basic principle of memory is "fine coding", because the brain's memory of all information is not exactly the same, to the brain is not easy to remember the information type into a good memory of information type. The core method of most memorization is to transform the dull information that is going into memory into colorful and super-interesting information, and the transformed information is very different from the things you've seen before, and you'll never forget it after the conversion. The book "Rhetoric" is the bible of Memory masters, which refers to memory, which refers to the memory palace is the spatial memory method. The artificial memory has two basic components, namely the image and the position; the image represents what a person wants to remember, and the location represents the place where the images are stored. Memory palaces can be large and small, can be outdoor or indoor, can be real or virtual, even your body, as long as you are familiar with them, and are orderly. It is important to recall a scene with a variety of senses in memory. When building a memory palace, pay attention to the details as much as possible, as interesting, vulgar, and peculiar. The more vivid the image in the brain, the more it prevents the memory from being detached from the site. Memory masters are competing for this ability, so the World Memory Championship is not a memory game, but a creative competition. There are 6 bottles of wine in the book's List of Memories, and the author uses an anthropomorphic approach to imagine them chatting together, and one bottle of wine is named after a famous wine brand, and I've personified them as "tick-level", and that's exactly 2 weeks after this image is still clearly engraved in the brain. (February 18, 2013 when the book was read, these things are quite vague, it seems to want to achieve a solid memory effect, necessary periodic repetition is essential)

The 6th chapter: How to Remember a poem

The first task was to collect buildings, and ordinary people began to remember to prepare 12 palaces for training. If you want to remember a lot of things easily and without a little effort, you need to do more difficult memory training ahead of time. I'm not interested in memorizing poetry, so this chapter is quick to skip.

The 7th chapter: the end of memory

In ancient memory surgery is very popular, especially before the paper was invented, because want to retain any ideas, first of all to remember. But today's high-tech development, a large number of external storage devices and fast search make the brain's memory rapidly degenerate. I remember a few days ago a friend from the phone told a classmate's telephone number, because is outdoor, nothing around, just read the 11 digits, only remember the last 4 digits 7699, even 159, 158, or 156 have forgotten, and let friends read again, this back constantly in the heart meditation, Call this number immediately after the call, glad to remember it correctly. After thinking about 2 kinds of solutions, one is to practice memory, I do not want to be a memory master, just want to improve my memory a little bit, remember the 11-digit mobile phone number should not be difficult, in fact, the previous 1 is not used to remember, only 10 bits. Another way is to use the function of mobile phones, completely do not believe their memory, open hands-free, enable mobile phone multi-tasking function, quickly record the number heard.

8th chapter: Bottleneck Period

A simple memory method is to convert 2-bit numbers into images, which requires 00-99 total of 100 encodings, and the more powerful is the PAO system (individual-action-object) can encode the 6-digit number at once.

All people are going through three stages of learning a new skill. The first stage is the cognition stage, the second stage is the Association stage, the last stage is the autonomous stage. To break through the bottleneck, be able to stick to the following three things: focus on your approach, aim firmly, and get instant feedback. To improve your technology, you should see your own failure, and then learn from the mistakes of the place.

Bruce Lee's famous saying: "There is no limit to life, but there is a stasis." You can't stay at this stage, to cross it. If you can't cross it, it will be completely destroyed. "

The 9th chapter: One-tenth with talent

Does memory training really work? Especially for those who have graduated from college, is not the memory of it doesn't matter? The ultimate function of memory is mentioned here, and memory is not only a tool to help people to record information, but also a tool for innovation and creation, and memory is mainly a process of imagination.

The purpose of education is not just to instill a lot of factual information into the brains of students, but to guide them to understand the facts. Although these factual information cannot guide the students to understand, the true understanding can not be separated from the fact. The most important, the more knowledge, the easier to learn more knowledge.

I am also thinking about China's education and American education differences, China's education is a spoon-feeding education, secondary education is more so, the teacher put a lot of similar questions to students to do, to memorize a pile of information, do not lead to encourage students to think creatively, I do not like this method of education, because too hard, The student's learning burden is too heavy. But in turn, this kind of educational method may also be a way, Chinese students after this stuffed, some basic knowledge is quite solid, this is the factual information mentioned earlier, if after the university can change a way of thinking, may be more conducive to innovation. Education in the United States has been encouraging thinking from primary school, but some basic knowledge may not be strong, and it is not good to exercise rational thinking from an early age. It may take a degree to instill such a large number of facts, and this is a bad thing to master.

The 10th chapter: The Light Rain Man in our midst

Boring training is the only way to get a perfect memory. This one should be the same for other industries.

11th: American Memory Championship

The author's hard training is the winner of the American Memory contest! It seems that there are good teacher guidance, coupled with scientific, systematic and hard training, it does not take 10,000 hours to become an expert!

After reading this book, I began to organize my memory image coding , hoping to remember the phone number faster. February 2013 Re-read this book, found that the code I did not persist, the code in the student era should be more useful, after work more emphasis on logical thinking, there is not a lot of time to do this exercise.

PostScript: On the road in June 2012, with the children idle is also idle, began to remember some license plate number, with the location of the memory method is effective, with 7 positions put 7 license plate number, converted to vivid and interesting image, still remember. It is also a very interesting thing to imagine many strange images from several car brands using homophonic and image methods.

Reading notes: "The Moon Walk with Einstein"