Giving a speech or a sales presentation from memory conveys competence and authority. In fact, even today most people are impressed by a speaker who talks freely, without referring to her/his notes. If you wanted to be a successful orator, you had to give it from memory. Also, reading speeches to an audience was frowned upon. Unlike today, where paper is cheap, and PowerPoint all over the place, during the times of the Greeks and Romans it wasn’t all that easy to just jot down a 30-page manuscript. The method of loci was invented more than 2000 years ago, and widely used by the Greeks and later the Romans to memorize and give speeches that could last for hours. The good news: It is really easy to learn. People who have never used it just cannot believe how someone can have such a fantastic memory. It is used by memory performers on stage to memorize 100-digit numbers and the order of several complete decks of cards, students to pass exams, sales people to give a presentation from memory, and by me to memorize the key information of a book, to name just a few. The method of loci, also known as the memory palace technique or the journey method, is probably the most versatile mnemonic filing system ever devised.
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