Anthony Metivier
@anthonymetivier.bsky.social
Creator of The Magnetic Memory Method. Blogging and vlogging about all things mnemonic and learning since 2012.
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/
One dojo within another.
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One dojo within another.
Delighted to hear this score by one of my old uni friends and publisher of one of my chapbooks back in the day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPN_...
I wish he'd told me about it sooner.
Fantastic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPN_...
I wish he'd told me about it sooner.
Fantastic!
MONSTRUEUX (2023), animated short fantasy-adventure-family film with an orchestral score
YouTube video by Mike Woods
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November 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Delighted to hear this score by one of my old uni friends and publisher of one of my chapbooks back in the day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPN_...
I wish he'd told me about it sooner.
Fantastic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPN_...
I wish he'd told me about it sooner.
Fantastic!
Reposted by Anthony Metivier
This is absolutely fascinating! A whole new world opens up around memory.
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This is absolutely fascinating! A whole new world opens up around memory.
An email from a fabulous new memory fanatic today wanted to ensure that I'd heard about The Memory Code.
Which reminded me that I hadn't updated the discussion page about this epic books with @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social in a long while.
Remedied!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/the-memory-c...
Which reminded me that I hadn't updated the discussion page about this epic books with @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social in a long while.
Remedied!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/the-memory-c...
The Memory Code: Ancient Memory Techniques Anyone Can Use
Join Dr. Anthony Metivier and Lynne Kelly to explore ancient memory systems from The Memory Code and how they can boost your learning fast.
www.magneticmemorymethod.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
An email from a fabulous new memory fanatic today wanted to ensure that I'd heard about The Memory Code.
Which reminded me that I hadn't updated the discussion page about this epic books with @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social in a long while.
Remedied!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/the-memory-c...
Which reminded me that I hadn't updated the discussion page about this epic books with @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social in a long while.
Remedied!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/the-memory-c...
Just remembering the time a 10-year old told me how she memorized all of Shakespeare's plays...
In historical order!
That was with her dad on ye olde Magnetic Memory Method Podcast many years ago.
Prepare for inspiration!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/tap-the-mind...
In historical order!
That was with her dad on ye olde Magnetic Memory Method Podcast many years ago.
Prepare for inspiration!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/tap-the-mind...
August 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Just remembering the time a 10-year old told me how she memorized all of Shakespeare's plays...
In historical order!
That was with her dad on ye olde Magnetic Memory Method Podcast many years ago.
Prepare for inspiration!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/tap-the-mind...
In historical order!
That was with her dad on ye olde Magnetic Memory Method Podcast many years ago.
Prepare for inspiration!
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/tap-the-mind...
I learned recently that being replaceable begins when you stop practicing the very thing that made you sharp in the first place.
youtu.be/U1GH0teKTLo
youtu.be/U1GH0teKTLo
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I learned recently that being replaceable begins when you stop practicing the very thing that made you sharp in the first place.
youtu.be/U1GH0teKTLo
youtu.be/U1GH0teKTLo
Many people try to remember names by sheer force.
But names are slippery... until you give them something to grip.
Try this instead:
When you meet “Sarah,” imagine a Sarah you know (or know of) sailing through a syrup storm.
It works best when you use someone already known in an unusual way.
But names are slippery... until you give them something to grip.
Try this instead:
When you meet “Sarah,” imagine a Sarah you know (or know of) sailing through a syrup storm.
It works best when you use someone already known in an unusual way.
July 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Many people try to remember names by sheer force.
But names are slippery... until you give them something to grip.
Try this instead:
When you meet “Sarah,” imagine a Sarah you know (or know of) sailing through a syrup storm.
It works best when you use someone already known in an unusual way.
But names are slippery... until you give them something to grip.
Try this instead:
When you meet “Sarah,” imagine a Sarah you know (or know of) sailing through a syrup storm.
It works best when you use someone already known in an unusual way.
McLuhan died in the 80s.
Are we getting the memo yet?
Are we getting the memo yet?
June 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
McLuhan died in the 80s.
Are we getting the memo yet?
Are we getting the memo yet?
Hugh of St. Victor gets it.
There are people capable of knowing.
They just prefer not to.
There are people capable of knowing.
They just prefer not to.
June 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hugh of St. Victor gets it.
There are people capable of knowing.
They just prefer not to.
There are people capable of knowing.
They just prefer not to.
A true mnemonic system isn't merely about storage.
It generates.
Not just long-term recall, but the associations that ignite it.
Like a living machine of thought, it spins chaos into order and meaning.
Forget filing cabinets. Build engines.
The future of memory lies in its past.
It generates.
Not just long-term recall, but the associations that ignite it.
Like a living machine of thought, it spins chaos into order and meaning.
Forget filing cabinets. Build engines.
The future of memory lies in its past.
June 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A true mnemonic system isn't merely about storage.
It generates.
Not just long-term recall, but the associations that ignite it.
Like a living machine of thought, it spins chaos into order and meaning.
Forget filing cabinets. Build engines.
The future of memory lies in its past.
It generates.
Not just long-term recall, but the associations that ignite it.
Like a living machine of thought, it spins chaos into order and meaning.
Forget filing cabinets. Build engines.
The future of memory lies in its past.
Reposted by Anthony Metivier
NAZCA, PERU
Fantastic new research into Nacsa Lines and the associated cultures. All totally consistent with my writings about the area being a knowledge space.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Fantastic new research into Nacsa Lines and the associated cultures. All totally consistent with my writings about the area being a knowledge space.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Ancient Desert Drawings
Can AI help archaeologists uncover more Nazca geoglyphs?
www.pbs.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
NAZCA, PERU
Fantastic new research into Nacsa Lines and the associated cultures. All totally consistent with my writings about the area being a knowledge space.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Fantastic new research into Nacsa Lines and the associated cultures. All totally consistent with my writings about the area being a knowledge space.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Every great thinker I've studied was...
WEIRD about learning and productivity.
Michelangelo and all those corpses?
Shelley writing "Frankenstein" on a dare?
Maybe it's time to stop asking how to “optimize” your learning and creativity.
Start asking:
What makes you impossible to ignore?
WEIRD about learning and productivity.
Michelangelo and all those corpses?
Shelley writing "Frankenstein" on a dare?
Maybe it's time to stop asking how to “optimize” your learning and creativity.
Start asking:
What makes you impossible to ignore?
June 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Every great thinker I've studied was...
WEIRD about learning and productivity.
Michelangelo and all those corpses?
Shelley writing "Frankenstein" on a dare?
Maybe it's time to stop asking how to “optimize” your learning and creativity.
Start asking:
What makes you impossible to ignore?
WEIRD about learning and productivity.
Michelangelo and all those corpses?
Shelley writing "Frankenstein" on a dare?
Maybe it's time to stop asking how to “optimize” your learning and creativity.
Start asking:
What makes you impossible to ignore?
This looks super-interesting.
June 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This looks super-interesting.
Reposted by Anthony Metivier
Indigenous knowledge systems in Fashion and Textile education
I am fascinated and delighted by Dr Alexandra Sherlock's use of ideas from my books for her university teaching.
She has written this up in a wonderfully readable piece on her website:
alexandrasherlock.com/alexandra-sh...
I am fascinated and delighted by Dr Alexandra Sherlock's use of ideas from my books for her university teaching.
She has written this up in a wonderfully readable piece on her website:
alexandrasherlock.com/alexandra-sh...
Engaging with Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Memory Craft in Fashion and Textiles Education — Alexandra Sherlock
Inspired by Lynne Kelly's "Memory Craft," I developed two workshops at RMIT University combining Indigenous memory techniques with fashion and textiles education. As a non-Indigenous educator followin...
alexandrasherlock.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Indigenous knowledge systems in Fashion and Textile education
I am fascinated and delighted by Dr Alexandra Sherlock's use of ideas from my books for her university teaching.
She has written this up in a wonderfully readable piece on her website:
alexandrasherlock.com/alexandra-sh...
I am fascinated and delighted by Dr Alexandra Sherlock's use of ideas from my books for her university teaching.
She has written this up in a wonderfully readable piece on her website:
alexandrasherlock.com/alexandra-sh...
Just minding my own business, reviewing some Latin declensions...
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Just minding my own business, reviewing some Latin declensions...
I don't want to have takes on things.
January 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I don't want to have takes on things.
Editing my latest "Memory Detective" novel.
Hard work, but it'll be worth it.
The hardest part is putting aside the worry that it'll disappoint everyone who loved part one.
Sequels tend to suck, after all.
But I'll do my best to make sure this one bucks the trend.
Hard work, but it'll be worth it.
The hardest part is putting aside the worry that it'll disappoint everyone who loved part one.
Sequels tend to suck, after all.
But I'll do my best to make sure this one bucks the trend.
January 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Editing my latest "Memory Detective" novel.
Hard work, but it'll be worth it.
The hardest part is putting aside the worry that it'll disappoint everyone who loved part one.
Sequels tend to suck, after all.
But I'll do my best to make sure this one bucks the trend.
Hard work, but it'll be worth it.
The hardest part is putting aside the worry that it'll disappoint everyone who loved part one.
Sequels tend to suck, after all.
But I'll do my best to make sure this one bucks the trend.
Did you know that you use the ancient art of memory...
Even without trying?
If you know where your fridge is, that's at its core.
More on how to amplify this simple principle:
medium.com/@MagneticMem...
Even without trying?
If you know where your fridge is, that's at its core.
More on how to amplify this simple principle:
medium.com/@MagneticMem...
The Ancient Art of the Memory Palace for Unlocking the Powers of Your Mind
If I told you that you can memorize an entire dictionary (or any book you choose), would you believe me?
medium.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Did you know that you use the ancient art of memory...
Even without trying?
If you know where your fridge is, that's at its core.
More on how to amplify this simple principle:
medium.com/@MagneticMem...
Even without trying?
If you know where your fridge is, that's at its core.
More on how to amplify this simple principle:
medium.com/@MagneticMem...
Mind mapping is one of my favorite ways to generate dozens of ideas.
I based the way I do it on some of Tony Buzan's ideas.
But generally, I use a clocklike structure so that most mind maps can be used as Memory Palaces.
That way, the ideas that arise stick.
I based the way I do it on some of Tony Buzan's ideas.
But generally, I use a clocklike structure so that most mind maps can be used as Memory Palaces.
That way, the ideas that arise stick.
January 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Mind mapping is one of my favorite ways to generate dozens of ideas.
I based the way I do it on some of Tony Buzan's ideas.
But generally, I use a clocklike structure so that most mind maps can be used as Memory Palaces.
That way, the ideas that arise stick.
I based the way I do it on some of Tony Buzan's ideas.
But generally, I use a clocklike structure so that most mind maps can be used as Memory Palaces.
That way, the ideas that arise stick.
If enlightenment is real, Michael Taft has the scientific know-how to find it.
A portal into our discussion of using portals on this epic quest:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/michael-taft/
A portal into our discussion of using portals on this epic quest:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/michael-taft/
January 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
If enlightenment is real, Michael Taft has the scientific know-how to find it.
A portal into our discussion of using portals on this epic quest:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/michael-taft/
A portal into our discussion of using portals on this epic quest:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/michael-taft/
That time Tony Buzan got me to doodle before signing his classic, The Memory Book.
January 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
That time Tony Buzan got me to doodle before signing his classic, The Memory Book.
The answer to the question I just received is, as usual, "Yes, but it depends..."
December 24, 2024 at 12:40 AM
The answer to the question I just received is, as usual, "Yes, but it depends..."
Gödel on how to perceive the material reality of an infinite set, as related to Rudy Rucker.
December 22, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Gödel on how to perceive the material reality of an infinite set, as related to Rudy Rucker.
No risk of narcissism by learning how your brain manages the story of you.
Autobiographical memory is just the ticket.
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/autobiograph...
Autobiographical memory is just the ticket.
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/autobiograph...
December 16, 2024 at 4:20 AM
No risk of narcissism by learning how your brain manages the story of you.
Autobiographical memory is just the ticket.
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/autobiograph...
Autobiographical memory is just the ticket.
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/autobiograph...