Weeks 1–2 · Images
Making them vivid, odd and specific.
Four programs of 6 to 10 weeks, all built on ten minutes of daily practice.
The method is ancient and it works because the brain remembers places and pictures far better than words. We build your first routes, work on images that are strange enough to stick, and drill recall until twenty items in order stops feeling remarkable.
Making them vivid, odd and specific.
Two palaces, mapped and rehearsed.
Twenty items, in order, reliably.
Clearing a palace and using it again.
Hearing the name in the first place.
Connecting sound, image and face.
Keeping names past the event.
Forgetting a name is usually a failure to encode it at all — you were thinking about what to say next. We work on attention at the moment of introduction, on linking name to a feature, and on the review that turns a name learned once into a name you still have next month.
Rereading feels productive and does almost nothing. We replace it with retrieval practice and spaced review, build card decks that are worth the time, and apply visual methods to the lists, processes and vocabulary that exams and professional work demand.
Testing yourself instead of rereading.
A review schedule you will keep.
Turning chapters into ordered images.
Recall when you are nervous and tired.
What to memorize and what to write down.
A method for codes, dates and figures.
Places, habits and fewer lost keys.
Good memory in daily life is half technique and half systems. We decide what genuinely deserves memorizing, build simple methods for numbers and short lists, and set up the external systems that make the rest unnecessary — because remembering everything is not the goal.
Twenty minutes on the memory work you actually need and where to start. Free.