Interesting about mandalas. I watched the videos in the link below - I suppose that's what you're talking about?
http://www.homeeducation.sg/videosHave you checked out the Josh Foer TedTalk and the techniques used in the World Memory Championships?
I've been following this stuff for some time and plan on using their techniques for memory stuff.
The primary methods used by WMC competitors are:
- Linked list (I think this is a primary one for Shichida)
- Peg System
- Memory Palace
I would recommend the website
http://artofmemory.com/ for info on how the WMC competitors train. I'm excited about training myself with these mnemonic methods and also about helping DD learn them... so I would be glad to talk about it more!
Cheers
Steven
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Ah, I see that this mandala stuff is somewhat different from the WMC methods. Maybe the mandala games would be a precursor to, and eventually support, the other visual mnemonics!
Hmmm, in a separate thought, I would prefer to call the mandala work "imaginative visual memory" rather than "photographic memory"? Just it's my understanding that the brain compresses images into outlines and fills like jpg's or other algorithms, so what we're actually remembering is more like a cartoon than like a photograph.
But looks good! I'll have to come back to this in a year or two.
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