Yes a memory palace, goofy, that goes without saying.
Say you wanna build one to memorize stuff, right?
So, how do you measure the size of the palace you’re figuring to dress up?
As I was figuring my thoughts to this question, I know I use quantity and specificity of detail required. Maybe other things, too, who knows. I certainly don’t.
–Lets you go and light dusts your chest and your shoulder and pats you with a wink–
It might be very disappointing to hear, but a lot of it is guesstimation.
Occasionally I can create a list of things to memorize and build accordingly, like when creating a memory palace for speed cards (52 loci for P, 17 loci for PAO), multiple decks (10 rooms of 17 loci each per palace), and some pre-structured information.
Some times it is a sort of structure. For numbers I try to work with 125-loci palaces so every palace represents 1.000 digits.
Aside from that, I take a rough guess at what I need. If I need less, I can make it smaller, if I need more I can add loci or an additional palace.
@Mayarra , oh yeah I’m super familiar with guesstimating! Aint nothing wrong with that method ! lol
@rhetoric , Are you referring to building an extension of a memory palace?
I have palaces I extend, so nothing prevents me since I actively do that when needed, if that’s what you mean.
I ask because , for me, a little planning can go a long way, and I’m wondering how other folks plan and select their palaces.
For instance, I know that when I want to memorize hierarchies, having a palace that scales the vertical plane is mighty handy.
I have such a palace memorized for Python’s built in Exception Hierarchy up and down the various sides of the town courthouse, for instance.
However, a number of my martial arts techniques and forms are memorized in the rooms of places I’ve lived, so depending on the application, I ask myself how I’d like to “see” the data.
Large portions of my Python palace are designed so I can “zoom in”. As details get more granular and specific, I look closer and closer. This is part of the reason I walk around my town and assign streets or neighborhoods or buildings to specific topics or domains of knowledge.
Novelty helps quite a bit. If things all looked the same, it would be easier to mix things up… however, once I get to know an area (especially using a memory palace), the details of a landscape or my surroundings start taking on, I don’t know, personalities, of sorts.
And the details stand out a bit more when you get to know someone (or someplace) I think.
So having large areas for big topics allows me to “get to know” different areas, and once we’ve had some time together, I’m already a bit more naturally curious about the details. So, it pairs well with “zooming in”.
Aint nothing wrong with that method ! lol