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DTP Foundations Week #24

Week 24 of the deductionist training program.

Mnemonics #2.

Level: Intermediate.

Mnemonics #2 - Organisation:

"So what can you deduce about me detective?" JM asks. You try to remember some of the signs for the "Big Five" personality traits.

You remember it like this:

To be efficient in mnemonics you need to organise what you memorise. This is something I think most have a problem with in mnemonics (I’ve never seen anyone do this in a good way). They tend to organise via rooms in their memory palace, and that’s okay but you can't really do that efficiently with small lists you need to memorise, or even big lists. You would waste space in your palace. So this technique is what you always should utilise when using mnemonics. Sortation with the palace should only be done when you have a room for a specific topic.

I associate organising of mnemonics with an article in a newspaper. You have the headline, the subheads and the content. Remember this for later.

First, visualise this:

An aquarium which is like an OCEAN (An acronym for the big five, if you haven't read about the big five look for my post called “Big Five”). But we need a picture for every trait because we want to organise this the best we can.

So remember these with the linking method (which we talked about last week):

      1. Openness to experience - Visualise a roller coaster.

      2. Conscientiousness - Visualise a filing-cabinet falling down and crushes the rollercoaster.

      3. Extraversion - Visualise a party hat that forces itself to be on the filing-cabinet.

      4. Agreeableness - Visualise two hands doing a handshake exactly over the party hat.

      5. Neuroticism - A shaking skeleton that shakes on the shaking hands.

Remember the newspaper article? Now we want to organise the OCEAN picture to be the headline and the traits to be the subheads and then the signs to be the content (more on that later).

So do this:

Link the aquarium (OCEAN) with the roller coaster (Openness to experience).

This you do a particular way:

Every time you make a connection between a headline and a subhead or a headline and content or subhead and content you should make the code for the headline big, the code for the subhead medium/small and the code for the content small. This will be zoomed in later.

So visualise the aquarium(OCEAN) quite big and the roller coaster(Openness to experience) as a small ornament inside the aquarium. When you have seen the aquarium as a big picture and the roller coaster as a small picture you should zoom in on the roller coaster and see every subhead as the same size. So all in the same category should be the same size.

Now we shall memorise the signs so that we can deduce what personality traits someone has.

The signs of openness to experience - Rollercoaster:

Colourful clothes - Clown clothes.

The shoes have strong colours - Neon shoes.

Now you are going to make a connection with the roller coaster (openness to experience) and the clown clothes (colourful clothes). The roller coaster is a subhead and the clown clothes are the content, so the roller coaster is going to be a big picture and the clown clothes are going to be a small picture.

Visualise the roller coaster and visualise the clown clothes to be small as doll clothes in one of the seats of the roller coaster. Now you zoom in on the clown clothes and see neon shoes as big as the clothes but inside them. The clothes later fall apart and reveal the shoes.

Now you should know how to connect these different pictures, so I'll give you the coding and the size of the picture but you'll need to connect them yourself.

The signs for conscientiousness - File cabinet (Medium):

Formal clothes - A suit (Small but the filing-cabinet is big compared to the suit)

Clean shoes that are in good condition - Cinderella's glass shoes (Small but is the same size as the suit)

The signs for extraversion - Party hat (Medium but is the same size as the filing-cabinet):

Stylish external - A king's crown (Small)

Friendly facial expressions - Smiley face (Small)

Confident facial expressions - Sunglasses (Small)

Smiles a lot - Smiley with botox in the cheeks so that it stays smiling (Small)

Relaxed gait - Ragdoll (Small)

Swinging arms when walking - Robots arms that are spinning (Small)

Loud and powerful voice - Megaphone (Small)

Good eye contact - Creepy old portrait (Small)

Lift their feet when walking - Boot with a spring under it (Small)

Shoes have lots of colours and the colours are strong - Clown shoes (Small)

The signs for agreeableness - Handshake (Medium)

Soft facial features - Faceless round face (Small)

Friendly facial expressions - Mona Lisa (Small)

The shoes are practical, non- pointy, affordable and no visible brands - Shoes made of clouds (Small)

The signs for neuroticism - Shaking skeleton (Medium)

Dark clothes - Dracula (Small)

Pointy shoes and high heels - High heels (Small)

Like with everything, you'll need to recall this now and then to remember it.

So just to be overly clear. The category of what you are memorising is the headline (in other words OCEAN or the Big Five is the headline) and has the size “BIG” relative to “MEDIUM” and “SMALL”.

The subcategories in the category are the subheads (in other words the five traits, like “openness to experience”, “conscientiousness“, “extraversion” and so on. These are the subheads) and have the size “MEDIUM” relative to “BIG” and “SMALL”.

The signs, in this case, are the content and have the size “SMALL” relative to “BIG” and “MEDIUM”.

So:

OCEAN - headline - BIG

Openness to experience - subhead - MEDIUM

Sign - content - SMALL

Sign - content - SMALL

Conscientiousness - subhead - MEDIUM

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL

Extraversion - subhead - MEDIUM

Sign - content - SMALL

Sign - content - SMALL

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL

Agreeableness - subhead - MEDIUM

Sign - content - SMALL

Sign - content - SMALL 

Sign - content - SMALL

Neuroticism - subhead - MEDIUM

Sign - content - SMALL

Sign - content - SMALL

You notice that JM have formal clothes and clean shoes that are in good condition, so you tell him that he scores high on the personality trait conscientiousness, he confirms your suspicion.

And with that, I'll see you my irregulars.

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