While travelling in the back country, Chatwin gave a lift to a man called Limpy, who wanted to visit a place he had never been to, which was of immense importance on his Songline. After seven hours’ driving, and about ten miles away from the valley, Limpy began muttering and gesticulating rapidly as he stared out of the window. He had begun to recognise places he had only previously heard about, and he was singing the Songline to himself. But he was forced to do this in great haste because of the speed of the car: the Songline he knew went at walking speed.
The Songline had been encoded through singing and walking through a landscape with close attention to detail, and in a linear sequence. Every note of the melody was linked to a feature of the landscape, and this made remembering the Songline ?and passing it to all tribe members and down generations ?much easier.
When the car journey intersected with the Songline, Limpy’s memory of the whole Songline was triggered, but where the man-made road deviated from the Songline Limpy "switched off" and only resumed the experience when the road met the line again.
A somewhat similar process was used by Roman orators when they memorised complex speeches. They would mentally link each heading of their speech in its correct sequence with the features of another sequence they already knew well ?such as the "landmarks" of a particular building or route. By linking the sequencing of the newly created speech to a sequence they already knew, they "highjacked" an existing memory to help them remember the new speech.
If you want to use this pattern to help remember a story, or a presentation, think of a route you know really well. Take yourself along it in your mind, stopping at each major landmark and finding ways to link the sequence of the headings in your story or presentation with the sequence of landmarks. Inventing links will help you create the links you need, and the more ridiculous or vivid the links the easier you will find them to remember.
https://www.tzgerui.com/
The Songline had been encoded through singing and walking through a landscape with close attention to detail, and in a linear sequence. Every note of the melody was linked to a feature of the landscape, and this made remembering the Songline ?and passing it to all tribe members and down generations ?much easier.
When the car journey intersected with the Songline, Limpy’s memory of the whole Songline was triggered, but where the man-made road deviated from the Songline Limpy "switched off" and only resumed the experience when the road met the line again.
A somewhat similar process was used by Roman orators when they memorised complex speeches. They would mentally link each heading of their speech in its correct sequence with the features of another sequence they already knew well ?such as the "landmarks" of a particular building or route. By linking the sequencing of the newly created speech to a sequence they already knew, they "highjacked" an existing memory to help them remember the new speech.
If you want to use this pattern to help remember a story, or a presentation, think of a route you know really well. Take yourself along it in your mind, stopping at each major landmark and finding ways to link the sequence of the headings in your story or presentation with the sequence of landmarks. Inventing links will help you create the links you need, and the more ridiculous or vivid the links the easier you will find them to remember.
https://www.tzgerui.com/
コメント