Summary of How to Hack Your Memory with the "Major System"

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The "Major System" is a memory technique that uses phonetic pairings to encode digits as words, and visually striking images to remember them. In this video, Thomas Frank discusses how to use the Major System to improve your memory. He explains how the system works and how to combine it with another memorization system. Finally, he provides a story to help you remember the words in order.

• 00:00:00 The "Major System" is a memory technique that uses phonetic pairings to encode digits as words, and visually striking images to remember them. It was most famously described by popular mathematics writer Martin Gardner in his book Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and The Tower of Hanoi. It works in three stages: first, encode each digit of the sequence you're trying to memorize as a specific consonant using a table of phonetic pairings; next, smash these consonants together to create words; and finally, encode these words as visually striking images. This method of memorization has been around for thousands of years, but is most prominently explained by the popular mathematics writer Seth Godin in his book The Dip.
• 00:05:00 In this video, Thomas Frank discusses how to improve your memory with the "Major System." This system breaks down a digit into smaller groups, and then translates those groups into consonants and creates words out of them. Next, he discusses how to combine the Major System with another memorization system, such as the Method of Loci. Finally, he provides a story to help you remember the words in order.