{"id":4291,"date":"2013-03-18T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2020-11-01T23:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:36:13","slug":"how-to-easily-memorize-anything-with-cicero-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/how-to-easily-memorize-anything-with-cicero-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicero Method or How to Easily Memorize Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

The essence of the Cicero method, which is also known as the method of loci, is that the information should be memorized by units<\/strong>, mentally set in a familiar room in a particular order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you do it, all it takes to recall the necessary information is to remember this room in detail. That is exactly what Cicero<\/strong> did in preparation for his performances: he was walking around his house, mentally placing the key points of his speech in it.<\/p>\n

How to practice the Cicero method<\/h2>\n

Before you begin learning to use the Cicero method, you need to decide for yourself in what order you will be moving around the room<\/strong> you have chosen. In other words, you need to determine the sequence of the places<\/strong> where you will be putting your information.<\/p>\n

You can simply keep it in your head. If this is difficult, then you can try to go around the room in reality<\/strong> like Cicero did, in order to remember the sequence of information units for the first time.<\/p>\n

Start with your room<\/strong> since it’s the most familiar space that you know better than anything. Let the door<\/strong> be the starting point, and then move to the left corner,<\/strong> then along the left wall, then to the far left corner, and so on clockwise.<\/p>\n

When you have mastered the method of Cicero, you can use more and more items in the room,<\/strong> that is, you will have more places to put information units, but to the moment, limit to the most visible objects in the room<\/strong>. The better you remember the location of objects, the greater will the number of items you can remember be.<\/p>\n

In addition to the left-to-right sequence, follow the top-to-bottom sequence. To memorize lists of different items, you can use the whole apartment or house,<\/strong> as well as any other building or location you know in detail. You should link the memorized elements to the room items by association<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Example of using the Cicero method<\/h2>\n

Consider an example<\/strong>. Here are some words: cheese, puppy, plasticine, ruler, thermometer, letter, puddle, forest<\/strong><\/em>. We will place them in sequence according to our apartment plan, starting with the corridor. In the example, we will use unusual associations<\/strong> to be able to remember this word series even after a long time.<\/p>\n

So, stop up the door keyhole with cheese<\/strong>, put the puppy<\/strong> at the door in the left corner, but in order not to forget this connection, imagine it gnawing the wallpaper off and yourself trying to stop it.<\/p>\n

Glue the plasticine<\/strong> to the mirror so that it closes up almost its entire surface. Attach the ruler<\/strong> to the wardrobe door so that it does not allow it to open up. Then you screw the thermometer<\/strong> in the chandelier instead of the bulb.<\/p>\n

Now, you move to the room and insert the letter<\/strong> between the door and the jamb. Along the left wall of the room, there is a small sofa, and you imagine it standing in a puddle<\/strong> and its legs getting soaked. Finally, imagine a forest<\/strong> growing under the bookshelves and tree branches twist between the books.<\/p>\n

The point is to determine in advance which information units will be included in the sequence<\/strong>. If you don\u2019t, you can easily make a mistake.<\/p>\n

In general, the Cicero method should be used for more important things<\/strong> than just memorizing a series of random words. It is perfect for memorizing texts<\/strong>, the order of phone calls, etc.<\/p>\n

However, when information is thematically connected<\/strong> (when it is not just a meaningless series of words or numbers like in the example above), you can use the same room many times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The essence of the Cicero method, which is also known as the method of loci, is that the information should be memorized by units, mentally set in a familiar room in a particular order. If you do it, all it takes to recall the necessary information is to remember this room in detail. That is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":44811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[18,19,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}