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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
'Tis the point to have bad hair. Remember?
December 19, 2024 at 10:46 PM
'Tis the point to have bad hair. Remember?
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...
Today's soundtrack...
"Alien pop music."
Ist ist indeed! 👾
"Alien pop music."
Ist ist indeed! 👾
December 13, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Today's soundtrack...
"Alien pop music."
Ist ist indeed! 👾
"Alien pop music."
Ist ist indeed! 👾
Dopamine resetting is possible according to some scientists.
But the real name of the game seems to be protecting tonic dopamine's "tonicness" from too much phasic "spiking."
To transmit this is to spike in the hopes of helping more people find a steady state.
But the real name of the game seems to be protecting tonic dopamine's "tonicness" from too much phasic "spiking."
To transmit this is to spike in the hopes of helping more people find a steady state.
December 13, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Dopamine resetting is possible according to some scientists.
But the real name of the game seems to be protecting tonic dopamine's "tonicness" from too much phasic "spiking."
To transmit this is to spike in the hopes of helping more people find a steady state.
But the real name of the game seems to be protecting tonic dopamine's "tonicness" from too much phasic "spiking."
To transmit this is to spike in the hopes of helping more people find a steady state.
I'm a memory science nerd, but also an applied researcher of mnemonics.
Knowing just a little bit about how things work in the brain provides all kinds of clues that can help your practice.
More on how memory works with an additional infographic:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/how-memory-w...
Knowing just a little bit about how things work in the brain provides all kinds of clues that can help your practice.
More on how memory works with an additional infographic:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/how-memory-w...
December 4, 2024 at 11:09 PM
I'm a memory science nerd, but also an applied researcher of mnemonics.
Knowing just a little bit about how things work in the brain provides all kinds of clues that can help your practice.
More on how memory works with an additional infographic:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/how-memory-w...
Knowing just a little bit about how things work in the brain provides all kinds of clues that can help your practice.
More on how memory works with an additional infographic:
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/how-memory-w...
Which of these causes of forgetting cause you the most grief?
Some frown upon the psychoanalytic explanation, but in my experience...
Weeding it out, or at least increasing awareness of the weed has been huge.
For more deets...
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/causes-of-fo...
Some frown upon the psychoanalytic explanation, but in my experience...
Weeding it out, or at least increasing awareness of the weed has been huge.
For more deets...
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/causes-of-fo...
December 3, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Which of these causes of forgetting cause you the most grief?
Some frown upon the psychoanalytic explanation, but in my experience...
Weeding it out, or at least increasing awareness of the weed has been huge.
For more deets...
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/causes-of-fo...
Some frown upon the psychoanalytic explanation, but in my experience...
Weeding it out, or at least increasing awareness of the weed has been huge.
For more deets...
www.magneticmemorymethod.com/causes-of-fo...
Even the most tedious background comes alive in the mind...
If you use the Memory Palace technique.
Some of the Sanskrit I recited in this TEDx is "animated" on the mental version of this wall...
Mad associations of the mind. For sanity's sake.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtY...
If you use the Memory Palace technique.
Some of the Sanskrit I recited in this TEDx is "animated" on the mental version of this wall...
Mad associations of the mind. For sanity's sake.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtY...
November 29, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Even the most tedious background comes alive in the mind...
If you use the Memory Palace technique.
Some of the Sanskrit I recited in this TEDx is "animated" on the mental version of this wall...
Mad associations of the mind. For sanity's sake.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtY...
If you use the Memory Palace technique.
Some of the Sanskrit I recited in this TEDx is "animated" on the mental version of this wall...
Mad associations of the mind. For sanity's sake.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtY...
Do you keep a Memory Journal?
This is the most elaborate one any of my readers/course participants have sent so far.
The rationale for personalizing them visually boils down to signally importance to the brain.
Makes them easier to spot too.
And what gets seen tends to get used.
This is the most elaborate one any of my readers/course participants have sent so far.
The rationale for personalizing them visually boils down to signally importance to the brain.
Makes them easier to spot too.
And what gets seen tends to get used.
November 29, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Do you keep a Memory Journal?
This is the most elaborate one any of my readers/course participants have sent so far.
The rationale for personalizing them visually boils down to signally importance to the brain.
Makes them easier to spot too.
And what gets seen tends to get used.
This is the most elaborate one any of my readers/course participants have sent so far.
The rationale for personalizing them visually boils down to signally importance to the brain.
Makes them easier to spot too.
And what gets seen tends to get used.