HOW TO MEMORIZE ANY WORD IN FIVE MINUTES (FOR REAL) In this post, I will describe how to use a memory palace to rapidly memorize new vocabulary. A memory palace uses colorful imagery and places you are familiar with, such as your home, to help you remember new words. I will now demonstrate a memory palace I recently "built" in my head. I wanted to memorize 5 words, 邀请(yāoqǐng), 计划(jìhuà), 到时候(dàoshíhòu), 竞争(jìngzhēng), and 自觉 (zìjué). For the sake of our non-Chinese friends, I will only refer to these words in their Romanization from now on. First, I chose the location of my memory palace to be my apartment in Manhattan Beach. Now I will walk you step by step what I imagined in my head to memorize each word: 1. yāoqǐng - to invite: I imagined a giant Yao Ming(the basketball player) opening my front door and waving to me to enter while saying qǐng(please) 2. jìhuà - To plan: We walked over to my dining room table, where he showed me a blueprint next to my flower pot. I vividly pictured him smiling next to the flowers because "gee" in English is an exclamation for glad and hua is the word for flower in Chinese, thus jìhuà. I also imagined him making a downward karate chop motion towards the blueprint to remember it was in the falling tone. 3. (dàoshíhòu) ~ at that moment: I imagined he stubbed bis two and yelled "dao!" like Homer Simpson and immediately wanted to challenge me in basketball, which leads to number 4.... 4.jìngzhēng- to compete: I imagined him instantly breaking out a basketball and wanting to compete with me while saying jingzheng to the rhythm of the bouncing ball. 5. zìjué - conscious: I imagined a friend who I meditate with open the side door and yell "zi jue!" to wake me up out of my dream. (I chose that friend bc of meditation/conscious) Now all I have to do is imagine my house and relive this story in my head, and all the words come to me immediately. For more, check out: "How to remember anything" on the Tim Ferriss Podcast

Erstens: mein Nachname. Mein Nachname heißt “Widmaier” und ist deutsch. Vor ungefähr 500 Jahren als meine Vorfahren noch in Deutschland wohnten, wurde es “Widmayer” geschrieben. Damals haben sie in einem Dorf nicht sehr weit von Stuttgart entfernt heißt Kalw gewohnt. Ich weiß nicht was für eine Bedeutung dieses Name hat, aber die einzige deutsches Wort, welches mich daran erinnert ist nämlich “widmen-to dedicate” Zweitens: Mein Vorname. Mein Vorname heißt “Connor” und ist ursprünglich Irisch. Die Bedeutung lautet ungefähr: weg des Wolfs. Es gefällt mir zwei Namen zu haben, die meine Herkunft, nämlich deutsch und irisch, signalisieren. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Sie dabei helfen würden, mein Text zu bearbeiten. Vielen dank!