How to use Gamification to Enhance Learning

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To turn hundreds of pages into the gist of the information can be achieved with the method of turning all the information into images.
People are better at memorizing images than words.
Few methods to get you started:
Read these first before you start
Method of loci
The link method
Or try this
Memorize this list of words in 10 seconds
Apple, bee, fish, water, gray, yellow, green, wheat, heat, tree, old
Did you manage to do it? If not try to memorize it like this :
Imagine this scene as animated
There is an apple on a flower. A bee flies by and tries to eat the apple. The bee successfully eats the apple but a flying fish comes out of nowhere and makes a ghost face at the bee. Then the fish flies back into the water in the pond nearby. The water suddenly changed its color from clear to gray. A yellow school bus drove into the pond and turned into a green cactus. A farmer came and took the green cactus and puts it on his wheat farm. The sun increased its glaze and made the farmer sweat. So the farmer lays his back on a tree. Another old man comes at the farmer waving his hand.
Now try to think of the words on the list.
You should be able to remember all of them from referring back to the story above. When you can make stories fast—favorably absurd and crazy ones(brain remembers it more)—you can memorize such lists of words in seconds. You also won’t forget about it till much later.
Personally, I have altered some mnemonic methods into a new one that I call the “mind world“.
The steps to using this method are as follows:
Step 1: Close your eyes and imagine a world forming from scratch( would help if you watched the formation of earth videos). The light appeared and slowly turned into your mind world. It can be round like earth or any shape you wish it to be.
Step 2: construct the foundations of your world. If you want your world to look like earth, add grass and mountains. If you want your world to look like space, add stars.
Step 3: Add the images you transformed from words into your mind world. It might not be easy to add it in for the first time, but as you study the image a few times, you should be able to memorize it for at least a few weeks by “looking” at your mind world.
The spaced repetition would work differently if you use the mind world method.
To use it, you would study it 3 times the first day. Look at it another time the second day, then look at it after a week. Then you should be able to memorize it for a few months. I still remember an image I created from 2 years ago having only looked back at it 5 times.

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