5 Proven Steps to Memorize Presidents Fast
It’s not easy to remember all the presidents in order, but if you do it the right way, it will come naturally and automatically to you!
Here is a great way to learn how to memorize presidents by using the “memory palace” technique. All you need to do is create a memory palace out of your own mind and use it as a shortcut to help you remember important facts and figures about the presidents you are trying to learn.
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5 Easy Steps to Build a Memory Palace, and You can Use It to Memorize All The Presidents in Order
Step 1: Decide on a Location to Use as Your Memory Palace
First, decide on a location to use as your memory palace. Maybe it’s your house, office or some other place you know very well.
Next, list all possible spaces at the location that could be used to store the items you want to remember.
For example, choose your house as a memory palace with 10 separate spaces for storing items to be remembered, including a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, den, two bathrooms, garage, backyard, and front yard.
Take a virtual tour of your memory palace. What do you find in the first room you enter?
Analyze the room systematically (you can determine a standard procedure, such as always looking from left to right). Which feature catches your eye next? You can also choose a painting on the wall or the table in the middle of the dining room.
As you explore, continue to observe the other features. Each of them will become a “memory slot” that you can later use to store specific information.
You will need to pick five distinctive features in each space to use as “memory slots”, so a total of 50 “memory slots” will be selected. This will be enough to hold 46 corresponding images of the President of the United States.
Step 2: Assign Numbers and Set Up the Path
Next, you need to number these “memory slots”.
To do this, you should stand in the doorway of a room and, starting from your left, move clockwise around the room, numbering the five “memory slots”.
In the first space, you number the “memory slots” 1-5; in the second space, you number them 6-10; and so on.
Eventually, you will have 50 “memory slots” to store specific information.
And according to these numbers, this is the path you have to take to cross the house in your mind.
The path from “memory slot” 1 to “memory slot” 50 is the path you take in the memory palace.
Step 3: Create Images for Each Presidents
Now, let’s create images for each of the 46 presidents you want to memorize.
You can use your imagination, or just refer to the table below:
| NAME | IMAGE |
| Washington | washing machine |
| Adams | apple (Adam’s Apple) |
| Jefferson | chef son |
| Monroe | man rowing (man-row) |
| Quincy Adams | squinting at a dam (s-quinty a-dam) |
| Jackson | Michael Jackson |
| Van Buren | van burning |
| Harrison | Harrison Ford |
| Tyler | necktie (tie-ler) |
| Polk | poking (the action of poking) |
| Taylor | tail (tail-or) |
| Fillmore | filmer (someone filming with a camera) |
| Pierce | piercing (the action of piercing something) |
| Buchanan | book-canon |
| Lincoln | President Lincoln |
| Johnson | toilet or john |
| Grant | grant (college grant) |
| Hayes | being hazed |
| Garfield | Garfield the Cat |
| Arthur | King Arthur (sword in the stone) |
| Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Harrison | Harrison Ford (again) |
| Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (again) |
| McKinley | Mt. McKinley (Denali) |
| Roosevelt (Teddy) | teddy bear |
| Taft | raft |
| Wilson | Wilson brand volleyball |
| Harding | hard |
| Coolidge | acting cool |
| Hoover | hoover or vacuum cleaner |
| Roosevelt | rose |
| Truman | truthful man |
| Eisenhower | eye power (eyes-en-power) |
| JFK (Kennedy) | candy |
| LBJ (Johnson) | LB&J sandwich |
| Nixon | knickers (Knicks-on) |
| Ford | Ford car |
| Carter | car |
| Reagan | ray-gun |
| Bush | bush |
| Clinton | Clinton himself |
| Bush Jr. | bush (again) |
| Obama | bomb (o-bomb-a) |
| Trump | trump tower |
| Biden | Biden himself |
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Step 4: Visual Association
Now you have 50 “memory slots” in your memory palace. At the same time, you have 46 representative images of the presidents.
Now you have to assign a presidential image to each “memory slot” and associate them together.
For example, if “memory slot” #1 is a table, imagine a washing machine on the table. Since Washington was the first president and his representative image is a washing machine, he would be assigned to this table because it is “memory slot” number 1.
If memory slot #2 is a couch, imagine an apple on the couch, because the image of the second president, Adams, is an apple.
Do this for each president and “memory slot”, from 1 to 46.
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Step 5: Visit Your Palace Regularly
As you follow the same path, starting from the same place, what you need to remember will come to mind as soon as you notice selected features(memory slot) along the way.
Pay attention to these features from the very beginning of the route to the end and visualize the scene in your mind.
At the end of your journey, turn around and go back to your starting point in the opposite direction.
Do this regularly and you will have all the presidents firmly in mind.
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Who was Our Youngest President?
The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43.
Who is the Richest President?
President Donald Trump is often considered to be the first billionaire president. He is often referred to as the richest president in history.
Who was the Best President?
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George Washington are most often listed as the three highest-rated presidents among historians.
Which President served as Vice President?
US President-elect Joe Biden is set to become the 15th American vice president to return to the White House as commander-in-chief. Biden served two terms as vice president to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
Here are US vice presidents who rose to the Oval Office:
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Martin Van Buren
- John Tyler
- Millard Fillmore
- Andrew Johnson
- Chester Arthur
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Calvin Coolidge
- Harry Truman
- Lyndon Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- George H.W. Bush
Conclusion
Memorizing presidents by the memory palace technique are easy and fun. It will give you a firm foundation for an easy recall of the presidents’ names.
Actually, the memory palace technique is so simple and easy to use that almost anyone can do it. That’s why I want you to learn and use this technique. The benefits are enormous and last a lifetime.
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