When I first realized I could do this I was so excited I had to tell someone but there was no one I could think of which would not think me crazy. Despite my better judgment I tried to share my new found discovery with a couple friends. There blank and slightly annoyed looks more or less confirmed my original thought that such things are better kept to myself, but now that I have a more interested audience let’s try again.
One of the biggest problems I have with the Journey method is finding enough places to make into journeys. So when it occurred to me that I could use movies to construct my journeys I thought it was an elegant solution to my problem.
After all, who among us has not seen hundreds of movies over the years? And they cover just about every subject imaginable. Say you wanted to remember information doing with Scottish history, then you could make a journey out of Braveheart or if it is literature you are trying to remember then you could make a journey out of Finding Forrester.
I find that I only have to watch a movie once and then I am easily able to make a journey out of it . Though you may first have to review movies you have not seen for a while. I also find that the process of turning a movie into a journey locks it into my mind in a way far better than just watching it alone can. As I am watching a movie I will be picking out the scenes I want to use.
Then after I will recall those scenes and make my final choice of which ones to use. Do not worry if the final journey does not perfectly match the sequence of the movie, I find it can sometimes be helpful to change around a scene or two in order to make it flow smoothly in my mind.
The only downside I have discovered with this method is that my journeys only end up being around fifteen stages long. This seems as many as I can get and keep each stage in my journey distinct. This may very well be from lack of experience on my part. I also find I can turn books and video games into journeys of considerably greater length. But more about this in a future post.
