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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Love this question about "friction" learning raised by the polymathic Andrew Mayne.

Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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!

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MONSTRUEUX (2023), animated short fantasy-adventure-family film with an orchestral score

YouTube video by Mike Woods

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maryewright @maryewright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is absolutely fascinating! A whole new world opens up around memory.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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...

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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.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

McLuhan died in the 80s. Are we getting the memo yet?

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Hugh of St. Victor gets it. There are people capable of knowing. They just prefer not to.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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.

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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...

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Artificial Intelligence Reveals Ancient Desert Drawings

Can AI help archaeologists uncover more Nazca geoglyphs?

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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?

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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...

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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...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just minding my own business, reviewing some Latin declensions...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don't want to have takes on things.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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...

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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?

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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/

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

That time Tony Buzan got me to doodle before signing his classic, The Memory Book.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The answer to the question I just received is, as usual, "Yes, but it depends..."

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Gödel on how to perceive the material reality of an infinite set, as related to Rudy Rucker.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

No risk of narcissism by learning how your brain manages the story of you. Autobiographical memory is just the ticket. www.magneticmemorymethod.com/autobiograph...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Today's soundtrack... "Alien pop music." Ist ist indeed! 👾

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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.

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

APHANTASTIA - no visual imagery I discovered I had aphantasia about 5 years ago. Many people have not heard of it when I mention it in talks - some then realise that they also have it - not realising that other people actually saw things in their mind's eye. theconversation.com/the-pink-ele...?

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The pink elephant test: what your visual imagination predicts about your ability to control your thoughts

Research shows people with more vivid visual imaginations may also be more prone to certain kinds of intrusive thoughts.

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

So pleased to have joined BlueSky! My most recent book is The Knowledge Gene, just released in Australia. It will be published for North America next year. Looking forward to interacting here!

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Not sure why it has to be considered a "war," but if there is a battle... It seems to me that the front is fought on the field of making sure people still read. At length. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZrO...

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A.I. And Self Publishing (Authors Over 40)

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

2024 has been a wild year with many people asking me about AI for learning and using Memory Palaces. Here's a summary of what happened with signs of what I think might yet come: www.magneticmemorymethod.com/learning-and...

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of my favorite lines to recite in Sanskrit during my daily memory-based meditation.

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Anthony Metivier @anthonymetivier.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"If people really understood it, no one would renounce the world." – John Climacus

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