I'm not sure what's on that video because I can't see it right now so I apologize if this post repeats anything from it:
My understanding is that memory at its best is associative. When I was in high school I took this 'Mega Memory' course and all it taught you to do was associate something with something else in order to remember it. That's probably why, 4x4, you can remember a dollar figure by thinking of something that costs that much.
When I studied anatomy in university the entire course was, essentially, memorization. So I would use association to remember body parts, but for other forms of memory - such as remembering the breakdown of a body part in order, I used mnemonics (I think that's what they said it was called). I'd take the first letter from each part to create an acronym and then invent a phrase based on the acronym to remember it.
What the impact of these techniques are on long-term memory I can't say - I DO know I remember very little of the rich complexity of anatomy 4 years later.
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