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Memory Palaces – What they are and how to use them

March 15, 2017April 3, 2017Oxford Education

In a previous blog post I outlined a very basic memory technique which works by creating a story out of to-be-remembered information. This makes the information more memorable than recalling a list of unrelated words and the technique itself requires no real groundwork, after all, you are just making up a story. Whilst impressive results […]

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