First time I published the upgraded memory learning project was in 2023, a year later, and still I didn’t make much progress.
or let me say I reset the deadlines of the learning project (from where the point I arrived to) so many times over.
EVERY single time I end up giving after few days to weeks of trying.
And again and again I kept reseting the deadlines, sounds a bit chaotic?
It’s certainly didn’t work.
I needed a solution, I thought it’s time to seek a coaching session.
So I had one session with Lisa Pircher-Reid (You should follow her on Instagram and threads)
It was an insightful 90 minutes long call during which I had these realizations:
1 → I have a deeply rooted fear of tackling quizzes and problems, if I feel my efforts aren’t paying off I might just give up
2 → Perfectionism, when I start drifting off the learning plan, I just feel the tendency to rest the deadlines the project.
3 → Lack of patience in certain contexts: this reason is the byproduct of fear
4 → My long term planning skills should be refined
Here are the solution for each problem to stick with the upgraded memory LP (learning project):
Problem 1 & 3 → spending some time solving riddles, just to train my mind to stay longer with problems, and for that I am picking the book The Price of Cake: And 99 Other Classic Mathematical Riddles. Besides, I bought a 3 months subscription in https://memoryleague.com so that I stay motivated and take my practice seriously.
problem 2 → How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism, since this book is coming from Stephen guise, the author of mini habits ( a great book for building habits) and has so many practical steps, I think it’s worth giving a try.
problem 4 → Reviewing the methodology of learning project i.e reviewing rapid learning course.
Now let’s jump into the 49 weeks plans which is split into two big parts.
The weekly plan part 1 : The 15 learning materials
For now let’s check the entire timeline of the learning project. (Please refer to this post to know more details about each learning material used in the Upgraded memory)
For your information, I am starting immediately from the mini challenges of the material number three in the list of the upgraded memory learning project, because I have already finished the first 2 materials.
Some mini challenges had been changed in terms of how many hours they should take me to finish, and some even challenges have been modified or added.
I will be spending 17.5 hours of learning each week, that is 2.5 hours daily.
Week 1 → 11 August – 17 August 2024
Mini challenges of the art of memory eBook: 17.5 hours
to memorise:
- 10 linked words
- 15 linked words
- 20 linked words
- 25 linked words
- 30 linked words
- 35 linked words
- 40 linked words
- 45 linked words
- 50 linked words
- Alphabet beg to memorize something of use (nutrients names)
Week 2 → 18 August – 24 August 2024
The fourth learning material which is a Coursera course titled: Guided imagery →17.5/21 hours
Week 3 → 25 August – 31 August 2024
The completion of Guided Imagery Coursera course : 21/21 hours
Mini challenges: 14 hours
- Memorise 60 random Linked words (using any method)
- Memorise 2 of your own guided imagery scripts
Week 4 → 1 September – 7 September 2024
Reading the first third of The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne: 17.33 hours (1/3 of 52 hours)
Week 5 → 8 September – 14 September 2024
Reading the second third of the book :The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne: 17.33 hours (2/3 of 52 hours)
Week 6 → 15 September – 21 September 2024
The completion of reading Memory Book by Harry Lorayne: 17.33 hours (3/3 of 52 hours)
Week 7 → 22 September – 28 September 2024
Mini challenges for The Memory Book: 17.5 hour
- Memorise the world’s currencies
- memorise 50 world history key events
Week 8 → 29 September – 5 October 2024
Reading 65% of the book Quantum Memory Power by Dominic O’Brien (17.5/27 hours)
Week 9 → 6 October – 12 October 2024
Finish reading the book Quantum Memory Power by Dominic O’Brien ( 27/27 hours)
Backup time for Quantum Memory: 8/8 hours
Week 10 → 13 October – 19 October 2024
challenges for Quantum Memory: 17.5 hours
These are the list of items to memorize:
- 10 Canadian provinces
- 58 Algerian Wilayas (cities)
- 21 cities of Finland
- 103 cities of Japan
Week 11 → 20 October – 26 October 2024
Reading You Can Have an Amazing Memory by Dominic O’Brien: 17.5/25 hours
Week 12 → 27 October – 2 November 2024
Reading You Can Have an Amazing Memory by Dominic O’Brien: 25/25 hours
Mini challenges for You Can Have an Amazing Memory: 10 hours
The challenge is about memorising the periodic table’s elements with their key features.
Week 13 → 3 November – 9 November 2024
Reading The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly: 14/28 hours
3.5 hours for backup
Week 14 → 10 November – 16 November 2024
Reading The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly: 28/28 hours
The mini challenge for this learning material is:
The Memorisation of 50 Interesting Facts: 3.5/3.5 hours
Week 15 → 17 November – 23 November 2024
Memory Palace by Sjur Midttun book one: 8 hours
Memory Palace by Sjur Midttun book two: 8 hours
1.5 hours for backup.
Week 16 → 24 November – 30 November 2024
There are two mini challenges:
1→ Memorise the 10 key notes of each book I read in a memory palace (5 in total, this book
included).
2 → Memorise 10 recipes using memory palace.
Week 17 → 1 December – 7 December 2024
Taking the course of Anthony Metivier – Memory masterclass 17.5/32
Week 18 → 8 December – 14 December 2024
The completion of the course of Anthony Metivier – Memory masterclass 32/32
The mini challenges to memorise:
- 30 quotes 3/6hours
- All the names of the countries and their capitals 0/22 hours
Week 19 → 15 December – 21 December 2024
The mini challenges to memorise:
- 30 quotes 6/6hours
- All the names of the countries and their capitals 14.5/20 hours
Week 20 → 22 December – 28 December 2024
The mini challenges to memorise:
- All the names of the countries and their capitals 20/20 hours
Reading How to learn and memorize a randomized deck of playing cards By Anthony Metivier 12/13 hours
Week 21 → 29 December 2024 – 4 January 2025
Reading How to learn and memorize a randomized deck of playing cards By Anthony Metivier 13/13 hours
The challenge for this material is memorising 3 decks of cards in a row 10/10 hours
6.5 hours of extra practice.
Week 22 → 5 January – 11 January 2025
Doing a course titled : How to Remember Your Dreams – Anthony Metivier for 31 hours.
In this week I will aim to do 17.5/31 hours.
Week 23 → 12 January – 18 January 2025
The completion of how to remember your dreams by studying for another 13.5 hours which makes it 31 hours.
Then I have 4 hours to do them mini challenges:
- Making a memory palace for emergency dream journaling.
- Going for a month of dream journaling
Week 24 → 19 January – 25 January 2025
Reading The Hack-Proof Password System by Brad Zupp, it should take me 10 hours of reading and 7.5 hours of practice
Week 25 → 26 January – 1 February 2025
For this week I will tackle The mini challenges for this book:
memorising 50 long personal password
Week 26 → 2 February – 8 February 2025
Reading the book Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget by Nelson Dellis for 30 hours.
In this Week I will read 17.5/30 hours
Week 27→ 9 February – 15 February 2025
The completion of reading of the book Rememeber it 30/30 hours
Tackling 4 mini challenges which takes 16 hours.
in this week I will do 2 of them:
- Memorise 3 Yoga excercices (1 hour)
- Memorising 103 Yoga terms (4 hours)
Week 28→ 16 February – 22 February 2025
Tackling the the other two mini challenges:
- Memorise 5 meditation scripts (2.5 hours)
- Memorise 300 digits of Pi (15 hours)
Week 29→ 23 February – 1 March 2025
Reading the final book in this learning project which is Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly.
It would take me 22 hours to finish it, this week I will spend 17.5 hours reading it.
Week 30→ 2 March – 8 March 2025
Spending another 4.5 hours to finish the book.
Spend 13 hours to do the challenges found in the book.
And by this time I am done with the 15 Materials, time for the real challenges.
The weekly plan part 2: The Final 3 Challenges
Week 31→ 9 March – 15 March 2025
The first challenge is the most important challenge.
Because the other two following challenges are based on the first challenge
So by logic it’s the longest challenge from the time investment time perspective
110 hours is needed to complete this challenge.
That’s 7 weeks of time.
For the first week I will spend 17.5 hours to make PAO ( a memorisation technique that is based on Person, action object, you can read about it here)
Week 32→ 16 March – 22 March 2025
Another 17.5 hours Spend making PAO which makes it 35 hours.
Week 33→ 23 March – 29 March 2025
Spending 17.5 hours to making more PAO spaces of memory, now it’s 52.5 hours .
Week 34 → 30 March – 5 April 2025
70/110 hours spend hours to make the PAO.
Week 35 → 6 April – 12 April 2025
87.5/110 hours are spend to make the PAO, we are getting close to the target.
Week 36 → 13 April – 19 April 2025
105/110 hours are spend to make the PAO, we are getting close to the target.
Week 37 → 20 April – 26 April 2025
110/110 hours are spend to make the PAO, we are getting close to the target.
The 12.5 hours left are going to be used to tackle the second final challenge.
To memorise the multiplication table from 11 to 31 which should take me 20 hours.
Week 38 → 27 April – 3 May 2025
Completing the Final challenge by spending 7.5 hours.
the other 10 hours will be invested in the Third final challenge memorising all the vocabulary found in the book
1100 Words You Need to Know by Rich Carriero , Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon
The final challenge should take me 192.5 hours to complete.
Week 39→ 4 May- 10 May 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (27.5/192.5h)
Week 40→ 11 May – 17 May 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (45/192.5h)
Week 41 → 18 May – 24 May 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (62.5/192.5h)
Week 42→ 25 May – 31 May 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (80/192.5h)
Week 43 → 1 June – 7 June 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (97.5/192.5h)
Week 44→ 8 June – 14 June 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (115/192.5h)
Week 45→ 15 June – 21 June 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (132.5/192.5h)
Week 46→ 22 June – 28 June 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (150/192.5h)
Week 47→ 29 June – 5 July 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (167.5/192.5h)
Week 48→ 6 July – 12 July 2025
Spending 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (185/192.5h)
Week 49→ 13 July – 19 July 2025
Spending the last 17.5 hours working on the Final challenge (192.5/192.5h)
By this point I should have finished the Upgraded memory.
It’s a long 49 weeks journey, but is it worth it? in my opinion it’s totally worth it.
What about you? would you go for a learning challenge like this?
Let me know in the comments!
