Hello, this is the first question i’m posting on this forum.
Anyway, I’m planning to complete 1000+ articles and 1500+ watch later videos, and memorize very important information.
However, how would you memorize random facts that are important enough that you’d store it in a memory palace? Let’s say I was watching a video on “top 10 facts about Marcus Aurelius”. How would you store that information into a memory palace you’ve already used for Marcus Aurelius (or any similar topic) or would you create a new memory palace?
To cut to the chase, I’m very interested in using the memory palace on not only aiding my recall ability but also create a special library in my mind by organising information I’ve memorized, sort of like Augustus Magnussen from Sherlock Holmes whenever he needs to recall a fact or information, all he has to do is go back to his memory palace and recall it.
And FYI, I’m aware of the PAO system and how it can improve the speed of recall with which memory palace you’ve used to store information by making sure the information you’ve memorized has the same beginning letter of the memory palace you’ve chosen. However, and even tho using the PAO system along with memory palace is great! I’m also interested in linking similar topics to create a large library/encyclopedia in my mind.
I am working on a very similar project, which I dubbed the 1.000.000 loci memory palace, also described below.
A lot of my memory palaces have room left over, but I have had a few moments where this was not the case. Those might be experiences that you could be interested in.
First is creating an expansion. Many memory palaces are a single building, and often times I have the possibility of creating a small additional palace like a backyard, a shed, or even a storage box. This is something I rarely do now, as it will still create a limit, and it is only able to add a few loci.
What I do more often is use “marker”. When a palace is full, and I still want to be able to put more information in it, I grab an empty palace and set it on fire. Everything is burning, hot and full of smoke. Still not enough loci? I grab the palace and drown it under water. I have to swim through it, some loci are floating around, you name it. These markers change the palace enough to be able to put new images in it, while also not requiring me to build a whole new palace.
Though an important bit is the organisation.
Lets assume your example of Markus Aurelius. I might have many images of his life, his war efforts, his time as emperor and his stoic philosophies, and end up with a full palace. Then I find new information, I find a source claiming that Marcus Aurelius thanked the Christians for their prayer for rain, which came and saved his army from thirst. (spoiler alert: might not have happened at all). I walk through my palace, find that I have nothing on him and christianity, and I start researching a bit more about it.
I might find a pretty interesting story, and decide that I want to add this new information to the palace of Marcus Aurelius. So I grab the memory palace, set everything on fire, and boom, I got a new palace to store all this fascinating knowledge into.
I might also decide that this topic is more suited for the general prosecution of christians by the roman empire in the first four centuries, in which Marcus Aurelius also played a role, having thousands killed during his rule at times of the Antonine Plague (if I have memorized that correctly, I just found that it is due for reviewing)
In the end, review is also key. But that is a story for another time.
That is very interesting. I plan on maybe using an entire city to organise information. Heck, I might even use it to memorise an entire dictionary.
However, I’m sort of confused with how you add more spaces in your memory palaces by burning your locis and making them drown. If I’m comprehending what you said properly, I believe you burn those locis and drown them, so that they’re not filling your existing memory palace, and you can therefore add new locis?.
I’m definitely going to try out your example. Thanks so much!.
Btw if possible, is there anyway I could personally dm you? I’d love to get more insight on how you use the memory palace and further advice.
I rather mean that it creates a whole new memory palace by changing the setting.
The original memory palace is as we know them, like your own home. You can imagine your home, mentally walk around it, and attach images to the loci.
Lets assume burning. Now you visualize everything being on fire, the whole place is hot, that lovely grand piano in the corner of the room is now a broken pile of burnign firewood. This inforno home becomes a new palace where you can place different images. You now have two memory palaces.
Putting the whole palace under water would do the same. You create a third memory palace by submerging it. The piano is floating a bit, and pressing a key causes a sound that is muffled by the water.
