I'm out on the (wrong) tail in the way of spatial navigation abilities. I regularly get lost if it is not a route I take more than once a week. When I do need to make a correction, it takes long, deliberate computation for me to figure out which way I need to turn. It's one reason I prefer cycling to driving: I have more time to figure out which way I need to go. Given all that, I wonder if the method of loci would work for me. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:

Everyone who makes it through college has a good memory; each such person has a vocabulary of at least 50,000 words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_lexicon

The biggest problem is presenting facts in such a way that they are easier to remember.

All mammals seem to be quite good at navigating in complex physical environments; they utilize the hardware of the visual cortex to organize information.

The "Memory Palace"/"Method of Loci" technique appears to be quite useful in taking advantage of this hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

At 08:12 AM 2/13/2015, Charles Greathouse wrote:

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Not everyone is gifted with a good memory.

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