arabianights
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Christmas is coming up, so I thought I would post this little idea.
Well known teachers of memory techniques basically teach that for things like learning a sequence of shuffled playing cards, what you do is remember your walk from work to home, and associate a card with each location. The basic idea being our geographic memory is much better than other parts of it.
With the famous route knowledge stuff, I would think that this technique could be adapted to instead associate a card with each signal/cross over/speed restriction/etc on a paticular route, and because of the relative complexities of these routes compared to the vaguely held ones of people's commutes, your average train driver when practiced in this technique should be much better than a normal person with the same degree of practice.
So why not try this, Mr. Train Driver (that means you), and report back as to whether it works?
Edit: Since the above has been misinterpreted by the first few replies - I am not proposing using a pack of cards to learn a route. What I am proposing is using route knowledge as a technique to learn a shuffled pack of cards (or more than one pack) which can then be shown as a party trick.
Well known teachers of memory techniques basically teach that for things like learning a sequence of shuffled playing cards, what you do is remember your walk from work to home, and associate a card with each location. The basic idea being our geographic memory is much better than other parts of it.
With the famous route knowledge stuff, I would think that this technique could be adapted to instead associate a card with each signal/cross over/speed restriction/etc on a paticular route, and because of the relative complexities of these routes compared to the vaguely held ones of people's commutes, your average train driver when practiced in this technique should be much better than a normal person with the same degree of practice.
So why not try this, Mr. Train Driver (that means you), and report back as to whether it works?
Edit: Since the above has been misinterpreted by the first few replies - I am not proposing using a pack of cards to learn a route. What I am proposing is using route knowledge as a technique to learn a shuffled pack of cards (or more than one pack) which can then be shown as a party trick.
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