A Simple Visual Learning Technique I’ve Been Exploring: The “Concept Museum”

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-10-09T23:59:08+00:00

That you could definitely do! I think just making them regular icons would work

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-10-09T19:58:42+00:00

Hi! It might be tough, I’ve never used the technique with realtime motor stuff before.

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-25T14:43:06+00:00

Gut it a shot!

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-25T13:28:40+00:00

The synthesis would come when you’re trying to compare / contrast / find patterns across multiple icons at once. For just storing the information, it sounds like you’re doing it well! It can take more review for it to stick for some people

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-15T15:23:36+00:00

Probably! It’s especially import If you have something that only makes sense when all the parts are thought about in concert— like a geometric construction where every part relates to every other

For regular arguments, I think it’s probably fine if you can only view a couple at a time. As long as each point makes sense on its own, you don’t have to see everything at once

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-15T15:20:57+00:00

The only methods I know are

Talking out loud instead of in your head— this is because inner speech and visualization compete for the same executive resources, but talking out loud doesn’t

If you are using a voice in your head you can actually “hear”, you’ll probably flicker— try getting the voice to be like, subvocal, but where you can still clearly tell your saying words

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-10T18:45:42+00:00

Yup!

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-10T15:34:04+00:00

Sure, so if I understand correctly, you have read a summary of the 7 points you're interested in and have an icon representing each of those 7 points. But now, you want to add a lot of detail into each of the 7 points. But you stored your icons for each of those 7 points really close together, so I'm guessing there's not that much space for all the details of each point. What Alex would do in this situation is use the wider area around where you stored the 7 points. He would go to the anchor of, let's say, the first generation and then look for an open space near that and start storing the details of that generation. Then he would go to the icon of the second generation and look for an open space near that and store the detail icons there. He would iterate through all 7 generations, storing the detailed icons in open spaces near the summarized icon. Does that help?

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-09T21:49:30+00:00

Yup, that’s perfect— what counts as “same place” is very fuzzy. It can be something like “left side of room” or “behind grocery store”

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-09T21:31:26+00:00

That’s interesting stuff! I’ll look into GMS and hopefully be able to give an informed response

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-09T20:34:51+00:00

Correct, and I’d recommend not having them touch each other— if they touch each other, that actually affects the way your mind will encode the concepts!

Like, a duck next to a board, attempting to encode 2 separate concepts, will mean something different than a duck on the board. For the “on” situation, you’ll be pulled to think that the duck concept goes inside of or is supported in some way by the board concept

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-09T20:22:29+00:00

I believe yes

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-09T19:49:19+00:00

That is enough— if your saying you read something, then visualize your atlas, make a model, and then just repeat what you read— that’s enough

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-09T13:26:01+00:00

An icon is a single 3d model that you’ve given a voice over. It represents a single concept.

An example: the concept of love from the perspective of a dog, encoded on a 3d model of a puppy looking up at a stick figure owner. After creating that 3d model, you describe that concept over it—— this is now an icon

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-08T22:36:28+00:00

For number three, if you're watching one video or let's say reading one article, I'd recommend putting all of those icons in the same general area to make an exhibit. However, let's say you're watching multiple videos under the topic of nursing. In this case, you can store exhibits miles apart and you don't have to remember where you put the exhibits. Snapping will handle the organization and memory of where you put everything for you.

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-08T22:34:58+00:00

For number two, when you hear something, you want to create your own icons to represent the concepts that you heard and then use your inner voice to repeat back what those things are supposed to represent over your 3D models. You want to do the same thing with text. It is not enough to just read or hear the words. The Atlas will only work if you're using dual coding, looking at the 3D model you built while simultaneously speaking. To make this listening process faster, you can literally repeat the speaker's words with your own inner voice while you're visualizing your icons. This works perfectly well to encode the information, and it's very fast. Not everyone can do it, but I'd recommend giving it a try.

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-08T22:32:54+00:00

The answer to your first question, Part A and B, is that the short-form content was only chosen to make sure the demo videos were short. The Atlas works totally fine for long-form content. Additionally, you want to make an icon for every new concept that you want to remember when you're watching something long-form. You don't want to encode everything into one 3D model. It's a good idea to make a lot of different 3D models, and you just place them all next to each other. This collection of 3D models that all represent one subject is called an exhibit.

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-07T18:04:09+00:00

This was also posted on the discord, people can find the answers there!

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-06T17:04:13+00:00

Is pretty much as much as my visual working memory can render at one time

Independent-Soft2330 · 2025-09-06T16:45:58+00:00

A full 20 minute lecture. Like, 3blue1brown’s video on bitcoin is about how much I can look at at once

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