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How to build a memory palace

1 methods: Create your own memory palace

At the World Memory Championships, top competitors have to memorize the order of 20
decks of cards in one hour and more than 500 random digits in 15 minutes, among other
events. You think you have what it takes? Believe it or not, almost everyone has the ability to
perform such feats. Memorizers do not necessarily have a "better" memory than we may
have, rather their prowess is in learning and perfecting a variety of mnemonic devices
(memory aids) with the goal of improving their ability to learn quickly and recall almost
anything. information. One of the most used mnemonic resources is the so-called "Memory
Palace", a place or a series of places that are structured in your mind and where the
information you need to remember can be stored. With time and practice, anyone can build a
memory palace, which can be more useful than attending contests or playing trivia. Here's
how to build your own memory palace:

Create your own memory palace


1 Choose a project to build your palace. While a memory palace can be an imaginary
place, it is easier for us to base it on a place that actually exists and that you are familiar with.
A basic memory palace could be your bedroom, for example. Great memory palaces can be
based on parts of a house, a cathedral, it can be a walk to the corner store or a town. The
larger and more detailed the actual place, the more information can be stored in that mental
space.

2 Defines the route. If you need a certain order to remember things, it's essential that you
follow a specific route through your palace, both in the real world and in your mind. So, once
you've decided what your memory palace is, you just have to decide how you're going to
move through that space. If you don't need to remember things in a specific order, you don't
have to follow a specific path, although that makes the task of memorizing easier.
3 Identify the specific places where you will store data during your journey. When you
use your memory palace you will put things separately (a number, a name or a part of a
speech you have to give, for example) and in specific places. Therefore, you need to identify
those places, as many think you will need them. Walk along the structure or along your route
and observe. If your house is a route, such as the way to work, storage locations can be
landmarks along the way: your neighbor's house, an intersection, a statue or a skyscraper, for
example. If the palace is based on a structure, you can put things in different rooms. Within
the rooms, you can even establish smaller locations, such as a painting, furniture, and so on.
The key is to make sure that the places chosen are differentiated and different.
4 Memorize your memory palace. For your memory palace to be effective, you need to
commit to perfecting your memory. The best way to do this is to transfer it to an actual map
(a map or route) showing your chosen landmarks or storage locations. Try to visualize the
palace when you're not there, and then check your mental image against the map to make sure
you've memorized all the places and put them in the correct order. Imagine landmarks in as
much detail as possible: make sure your mental image includes colors, sizes, smells, and any
other defining characteristics.
5 Place things to keep in mind in your memory palace. Once you have finished building
the palace and implanted it in your mind, you are ready to use it. Put a manageable amount of
information in each place. For example, if your house is your map, and you are trying to
remember a speech, you could place the first few sentences on the mat and the following
information in a box. Don't put too much information in one place-object and separate the
data by topic. Make sure you put the information on each object and in order to remember it
more easily and avoid making mistakes.
6 Use symbols. You do not necessarily have to put a series of words or numbers in a certain
place to be able to remember data, since sometimes trying to do so can be difficult to manage
and even counterproductive. In general, all you need to store data in each place is something
to jog your memory, something to get you to the main idea. So, if you're trying to remember
the name of a ship, imagine an anchor on the couch. The symbols are abbreviations and make
the other memorized data easier to handle and remember.
7 Be creative. The images you put in your home should, obviously, be as memorable as
possible. In general, images will be more memorable if they are absurd (or out of the
ordinary), or if they are tied to a strong emotion, feeling, or personal experience. The number
124 is not particularly a number to memorize, but you can use an image of a spear for 1, a
swan for 2, and a ship's sail for 4.
8 Add other mnemonic resources to your palace. There are many that can be used for the
memory palace. As an example, let's say you need to remember the musical scale. You can
find a phrase that brings together all the notes (EGBBDF).
9 Explore your palace. Once you've stocked your palace with evocative images, you need to
walk through it and do searches. The better you know your palace, the more easily you will
remember the content you want to find.
10 Use your palace. Once you have memorized the contents of your palace you can simply
call them out as you walk through it, both mentally and in reality. If you need to give a
speech, you just have to follow the route that is laid out in your palace. If you need to
remember that your girlfriend's birthday is March 16, just go to your room and that music box
where the ballerina dances to Verdi. Over time you will be able to start anywhere on your
route or in any room in your house.
eleven Build new sites. A memory palace can be reused over and over again, you just have to
change things and memorize them. Simply replace the existing content with new ones, and
you will soon see how you remember everything in order. If the contents of your palace need
to remain for a long period of time, create another parallel site. You just have to change
spaces and build your new memory palace.

Tips

 Be persistent. The memory palace is a very powerful tool, but it is not easy to master. If
you're looking for a quick fix to help you remember things, get a pencil and paper, but if you
want to really improve your ability to memorize things, spend some time learning and
practicing this method.
 There are a number of books and products to improve memory that will help you learn how
to build a memory palace. It may be expensive, however, not all of those methods are
effective for people. If you practice the steps above, you may save time and money.
 You'll need to prepare each memory palace just as you did the first, so you may want to
create new ones before you need them.
 There are many variations of the memory palace, such as the Roman room and the journey.
They are all based on the "Method of Loci", which arose from the recognition that some
people are very good at remembering places, and if they associate abstract ideas with the
place, if they are not familiar with a known place, it is more easy for them to remember
things.
 Also, keep in mind that the modern computer age brings many easy ways to build your own
virtual palaces or simply choose from many of the other creations already online and take a
virtual tour of them whenever you want. The impact is somewhat stronger than a drawing
which makes the imprint on your mind without much effort.
 Watch Sherlock. He can remember information instantly with his 'Mind Palace'.
 Watch The Mentalist on CBS to learn how to build a memory palace with the master, Patrick
Jane.

The memory palaces


by Luis Sebastian Pascual

Despite being a very old technique, it is difficult to find a description of the memory palace
method in current mnemonic books; Some mention it, very few explain it. Sometimes it will
be due to the author's ignorance, many others because it is not considered advisable to
entangle the reader with a technique that, being somewhat elaborate, will cause more
confusion for a beginner than anything else.

But in recent years, some fiction authors have given life in their novels to characters with a
prodigious, almost infinite memory. To justify such a prodigious faculty, they turn this
character into a master of the mysterious art of memory palaces (for example, the murderer
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins in the film "The Silence of the Lambs").

This has aroused some curiosity to know what exactly memory palaces consist of and how
they are put into practice, a question to which this article is dedicated. Now, I insist that this
technique is not for beginners: to understand it it is necessary to be familiar with
memorization techniques and, at a minimum, know and have some skill with the loci method.

If you consider yourself qualified, go ahead.

NOTE: If you have not yet mastered the basic rudiments of mnemonics, first take a look at
the Brief manual of mnemonics that you can download, for free, from the [ file ] section.

INTRODUCTION

When I have read old texts about the rules of artificial memory, I have always been struck by
the fact that they all dedicate some lines to describing, in greater or lesser detail, what the
rooms that we will take as reference to apply the loci method should be like.

This effort has never seemed justified to me because, first, it will be very difficult to find a
room with the correct recommended measurements, and second, because it does not matter
what the room is like, since the effectiveness of the method has been proven: it works
perfectly well whether my dining room is large or small, dark or bright, high or low ceilings,
etc.

But then I realized that these descriptions do make real sense when considering that they not
only apply to real places, but also to imaginary places created in our minds, that is, to what
we call "memory palaces."

Although it is easy for those who have relatively extensive experience to obtain as many and
as appropriate environments as they wish, however, those who think that they will not find
sufficiently appropriate environments will be able to have as many as they want, since the
imagination can conceive any space to its liking and form and build in it an
environment . Therefore, if we are not satisfied with the environments at our disposal, we
can mentally determine a space for ourselves and arrange appropriate, easy-to-distinguish
environments in it.

Rhetorica Ad Herennium book III, 28-40 (1st century BC) - The bold is my thing.

Thus, we see that the loci method can be used using real or fictitious rooms. We call these
fictitious, imagined rooms "memory palaces." And for them to efficiently fulfill their
mission, it is advisable to follow a series of tips.

BUILD THE PALACE

It is common that when a beginner begins to build his palace he imagines grandiose rooms
full of a thousand objects, since each object is a locus or point of reference, the more objects
adorn the room, the more things we can memorize. That is, since the system consists of
linking each concept to be remembered with a piece of furniture, the more furniture I have in
the room, the more things I will be able to memorize using this room.

Well, this is a mistake. It is recommended that each room or room have no more than 9 or 10
objects (or even less).

The reason is obvious: keep in mind that these rooms only exist in our minds, therefore, we
must avoid any element that could lead us to confusion or that hinders a clear and open vision
of the place. And placing fifteen different objects in a square meter - also having to keep in
mind the order in which they are arranged - is not something that invites success.

Far from resembling a medieval castle, initially our palaces should be simple constructions
with large spaces, like those contemporary museums that seem half empty, since they use a
huge wall to display just a small painting. A room model could be the following:
As you can see, it is a rectangular room with objects located in the center of the walls and
corners.

These objects should not have anything around them, since the purpose is that when you
imagine seeing an object, there is nothing else in your field of vision that could distract your
attention. In addition, they should be located at eye level, so that it is not necessary to bend
down or look up.

The order is also important: situated at the entrance door, we go first to the right and we will
go through the room in a counter-clockwise direction. In this way we have the position
assured, that is, for example, the fifth object will always be located on the wall in front of the
door, the eighth in the lower left corner, etc. (even positions in the corners, odd positions in
the center of the walls). This way, when I want to remember what I memorized in seventh
position, I don't need to go around the room passing by the first object, the second, etc. but I
will directly go to the object located on the left wall (the seventh).

To make the objects in the room easy to remember, they should all relate to a common theme.
That is, we are going to create single-themed rooms.

For example, I am going to dedicate a room to my little sister, so I will furnish it with her
own objects. I'm going to take her favorite toy from when she was a child, the book for that
subject she choked on in high school, the music system she bought when she finished school,
etc. And to make it easy to remember their position, I place them in chronological order, from
the oldest when I was a child to the most recent when I grew up. I could also have followed
an alphabetical order or ordered them by size - from smallest to largest, for example - but in
this case it is good for me to follow the timeline.
In this way, when I have to memorize some data, I will relate it to each of the chosen objects,
just as I would do with the dining room furniture if I were using the loci method in a real
room.

Note : The figure above is a schematic plan of the room. We have to imagine this room in
three dimensions, like the room of a museum that we go through, finding the objects, as we
go, displayed in the indicated position.

Both the floor and the ceiling of the room - also the entrance door - are either neutral areas
(without objects) or I can use them to locate an object that indicates the issue that the room is
about. For example, I often have the habit of calling my sister "baby", so I could place a
photo of her when she was a baby on the door, or imagine that a carousel of stars like the
ones you see hangs from the ceiling of the room. they put on babies' cribs (bebé = baby = my
little sister).

Thus, if I use my sister's room to memorize aeronautics concepts, I can imagine the scene of
an airplane piloted by a baby, which tells me that I have memorized the aeronautics topics
(plane) in my sister's room (baby). ).

I insist that the objects that furnish the rooms of our memory palaces must be things with
which we are very familiar, that we know well. As you have seen, a very handy resource is to
create a room dedicated to each of our family members, but there are many more
possibilities. For example, do you like football? Well, create a room with the best players on
your team. Do you like to read? Well, another room with the best novels you have read to
date. You like beer? Well, a stay is dedicated to the various styles or brands of this drink.

What's more, if you are a true football connoisseur you can dedicate a room to each team in
the league, and furnish it with players or characteristic details of the club (you already have
material to create as many rooms as there are teams you know). If you are passionate about
reading, you will have no problem dedicating each room to a writer, and filling the room with
novels or curiosities from that author. And so you can create a grandiose palace with the
rooms on the first floor dedicated to football, those on the second to literature, etc. or create a
palace with rooms dedicated to soccer teams, another palace dedicated to writers, etc.

THE NEXT LEVEL

From everything said so far, the only drawback is the limited number of objects that furnish
each room, since this means that to memorize a more or less extensive volume of data you
need to use many rooms.

If you have reached the point where you have already created your own memory palace (or
palaces), have tried this method successfully and want to continue using it to memorize more
information, we can take the next step of exponentially increasing the number of objects in
each stay. A simple way to achieve this is this.

For example, the last item in my sister's room is the Yorkshire she adopted last year. Well, in
the empty space around the dog I am going to place a series of objects related to the animal:
the walking leash, the rubber bone, the winter sweater, the dog brush, the food pellets. When
I take my imaginary walk through my sister's room, when I reach position nine I will not
have just one object, but that object plus a few others related to it. Thus, if we surround each
main object located in the center of the wall or corner with five more objects, we will have a
room with more than fifty objects with which to link data.

If, furthermore, I use each of these objects as the first of a series of data that I am going to
memorize using the chain method, we see that a single room can lead to the memorization of
more than five hundred data.

But there are many other possibilities to explore. An inquisitive mind will not be limited to
rectangular rooms and will soon want to try new shapes, new objects or ways of placing
them, always seeking greater effectiveness. For example, a complex but very interesting type
of room would be circular towers, whose interior is formed by a spiral staircase that leads
from the base to the top of the tower; Here each object is placed on a step, which creates a
singularity: if we need ten steps to make a complete turn, step 11 will be located just above
step 1, and in turn below step 21... this would allow us to create a certain link between objects
located on the same vertical line.

And all this without talking about the possibilities offered by the geometry of the palace or
the decoration of the façade.
EPILOGUE

Memory palaces have been a widely used resource throughout history, however, I personally
think that it is an old-fashioned, obsolete method : the phonetic code along with a good
group of keywords - which we can expand or reduce as much as we need, without any limit -
constitutes a simpler, faster and, therefore, more efficient method.

But it is true that memory palaces have a certain aura of magic and mystery that makes them
very attractive. They have the virtue of turning us into the architects of our own memory.
And, furthermore, they still keep some secret that I have not wanted to reveal; I'll reserve it
for, perhaps, a future second part.

FIGURES

Dimensions of spaces, according to Johannes Romarch in his Congestorium artificiose


memorie of 1533.
In this room model, the door is used as the first place, so that the number of objects is
rounded to ten. It also follows an inverse order to what I propose, since tradition advises
going in the same direction of writing, that is, from left to right, like the hands of a clock.
The image corresponds to Gulielmi Leporei, in his book Ars memorativa from 1523.
Temple or palace of music , according to Robert Fludd (1574-1637). I have seen this image
as an example of a memory palace, but this is a mistake since Fludd was against "palaces
manufactured or erected by the invention of the imagination" and advised using only real
rooms. In any case, it is illustrative of how we can also take advantage of the design of the
façade of our palaces.

The most famous memorization technique:


Loci or Memory Palace
It is perhaps one of the most famous and oldest techniques to increase or improve memory .
It is attributed to Simonides of Ceos and is believed to have been used to help speakers
narrate speeches based on a sequential script or key ideas arranged sequentially.

This famous memorization or learning technique has been used by several famous people,
including Saint Thomas Aquinas and Matthew Ricci.
Even in fiction Stephen King has commented on it in some of his books such as
Dreamcatcher. Even in movies like “The Silence of the Lambs” where Hannibal Lecter
commented on it.

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 What is this memory improvement technique based on?


 Simple example of a memory palace application
 When and how to use the Memory Palace or Loci memorization technique?
 Video example of application of the Loci or Memory Palace method
 My personal opinion

What is this memory improvement technique based on?

This method of memorization is based, as it could not be otherwise, on the basic


mechanisms of mnemonics : visualization and association .

It consists of associating the information you want to memorize with figures, objects or
characters located in different places that we know perfectly well and in a specific established
order.

The name of this memory technique “Loci or Memory Palace” comes precisely from
remembering the elements that were inside the rooms of a palace . The reason is because
to have a good base of reference elements we need a large building, with a wide variety of
rooms and elements within them. If we choose a small construction, it is likely that we will
be short on rooms to associate the information to memorize. It is as if we built a palace or
cathedral in our memory, if we can base it on some real construction, the better because the
rooms with their elements will be easier to memorize.
They even recommend memorizing several Memory Palaces or buildings with numerous
rooms inside them, that is, memorizing a village full of buildings, palaces, castles or whatever
we want to imagine but, the important thing is that there is a wide variety of known
references.

Simple example of a memory palace application

The ideal is to start from a reference with a large number of anchors or elements that we can
remember perfectly and that can serve as a reference to evoke the information that we want to
recover at all times. Therefore, although the ideal would be a “Palace” or a “Castle” as it is
not usual for our home to be, we should take our house as a reference.

Anchors , as we have already mentioned other times, are the well-known elements or
memories that we turn to in order to recover information from our brain. They are
metaphorically, as their name indicates, the anchors that we pull on to extract stored
information from our ocean of knowledge or brain. They are like known references that
we use as a starting point.

For example, in my house, when I enter through the main door I have a piece of furniture
with a flower centerpiece, when I go down the hallway I have the bathroom, the kitchen and
the bedrooms.

If we focus on the bathroom, which is the first room of my staging of the Memory Palace.
Upon entering it, I can see a yellow bathroom cabinet and sink in the shape of an L, then I see
the mirror, then there is the toilet with its famous brush that gives me so much play for
visualizations , the bathtub-shower and finally I see the children's rubber duck. Although
there are more objects and details in the bathroom that I have integrated into my “Personal
Memory Palace” to carry out the example, we will stick with these few. It is important to give
the objects the greatest content of details that can help us later in the association .

Let's imagine that we want to remember the shopping list made up of: rice, milk, bread,
diapers, beer and muffins. Furthermore, we have organized it exactly as we found the
products in the supermarket.

RICE + YELLOW ELE-SHAPED WASHBASIN FURNITURE

We would start by associating the word rice with the yellow L-shaped bathroom cabinet. We
can imagine that we go to the sink, we turn on the tap and instead of water coming out, rice
comes out. So much rice comes out that it doesn't clog the drain, we try to turn off the tap but
it is clogged with rice, so much rice comes out and comes out that it floods the sink.

MILK+MIRROR

When we look at ourselves in the mirror instead of seeing a person's face, we see that we
have transformed into a 400 kilo dairy cow with her entire udder swollen with milk, so much
that it comes out under pressure from the teats, staining the mirror.

PAN+VATER

When we went to the toilet to sit down from fear, we stuck something in our ass. We turn
around and see that the toilet bowl is full of loaves of bread squeezed in, so that only the
croutons stick out.

DIAPERS+BRUSH

When we pick up the brush to push the loaves of bread down the toilet, we notice that it is too
heavy. Looking at it, we see that there is a baby in diapers clinging to it and looking at us
with incredulous eyes.
BEER+BATH SHOWER

When we let go of the brush, we trip and fall into the bathtub where we hit the tap and beer
starts to come out and falls into our mouths. We try to get out but we are stuck in it. We have
to remember that we are a 400 kilo dairy cow 😉 We wait a while drinking beer until it stops
falling but we are already drunk.

CUPCAKES+RUBBER DUCK

While we are stuck in the bathtub, we notice that the rubber duckies are alive and are eating
some live cupcakes too. The muffins scream in pain but the ducklings are eating them
without any consideration.

Before you continue reading, look away from the blog and try to remember the sequence of
the shopping list in order. Remember that it all started in a yellow sink cabinet that I have in
the bathroom.

Have you remembered the entire shopping list? Yes, well, congratulations, now the part is a
little more complex. If you haven't remembered, you probably should practice visualizations
and associations, fill them with more details, involve the senses more.

When and how to use the Memory Palace or Loci memorization technique?

This technique is very effective when we want to memorize a series of information that
is hierarchical or distributed in a tree-like manner .

What does this mean?

It means information that is classified by categories. For example, if we start from a detail or
piece of information, each piece belongs to a secondary idea, in turn, these secondary ideas
belong to main ideas, and these main ideas belong to the general idea, which is the root of all.
In our daily lives we continually encounter categorized information. I could give a more
academic example, but I prefer to give a simpler example: the shopping list the same as
before but in different stores and places. Purchases are in different departments, within
different stores or centers and located in different places.

Let's imagine that we have to make a shopping list and that each item of the purchase can be
in different stores or centers, and within these they are in different departments or sections:
fishmonger, food, cleaning, etc.

Our shopping list is as follows, we describe what to buy, the place where to go, the shopping
center or store and its department:

CITY

SUPERMARKET

FOOD: milk

FISHERY: mussels, sardines, hake

BABY: diapers

MALL

HARDWARE: screws, plugs, hammer

STATIONERY: pen, magazine, eraser

TOWN

BAKERY: bread

We could memorize the following list: milk, mussels, sardines, hake, diapers, screws, plugs,
hammer, pen, magazine, eraser and bread without classifying by categories, but we would be
losing the information of their classification or categorization, which in this case is important
to know where to buy each thing.

Therefore, to memorize this categorized list we need to make use of the mnemonic
technique of the Memory Palace or Loci . In this case, as we have several levels of
categorization: place (city or town), store (supermarket, shopping center or bakery) and
department where to buy it, we will need to have a good mnemonic base of cities with
Memory Palaces, one will not do. .

When we talk about Memory Palaces we are referring to buildings or perfectly


compartmentalized places where we can classify information by room.

For this reason, it was advisable to train with several Palaces or buildings distributed
throughout cities, villages or towns to be able to categorize in a more in-depth way .
It is not necessary that they be closed places, although for reasons of separating information,
this makes it easier. It could be a park or farm, as long as the rooms or compartments are
perfectly delimited.

In the following example, we will need two constructions in one location and another
construction in another location. Internally I have several places: cities, towns, farms where
within each of them I have created several constructions: palaces, castles, buildings, stables
with different rooms or compartments within each of them.

My internal mental structure is as follows: I have cities and towns. Within one of the cities,
the largest and the one I generally use, I have different buildings (castles, palaces, buildings,
town hall) that I use to categorize. Within each of the buildings I have defined several floors
or compartments to continue categorizing. At the same time, within each of these floors or
compartments, I have rooms to continue delving into more levels in the categories. And
finally we arrive at the rooms, where within them, we have several reference elements to be
able to associate with the pieces of information that we want to remember. These elements of
the rooms are the anchors from which I retrieve information.

So that it is perfectly understood, I have drawn the diagram of the previous example. In
purple are represented my different Memory Palaces or constructions along with their
elements or objects that are inside the rooms, in green is represented the information that I
want to memorize, in blue are the different levels of hierarchy or categories that I want to
memorize also.
This is important, within each room we must memorize the elements in a certain order,
always the same. That is, within the throne room, the first element will always be the royal
throne, then the carpet, then the golden lamp, until you visualize the elements of that room. It
is important to maintain this order because to later recover the information, we will use
these elements as anchors . We will start from the royal throne and visualize the associated
information; if we did not know which element was the first, we would not know which
anchor to start from.

To memorize that I have to go to the city, it is easy for me, I have associated it with one of
the cities that I have stored. To remember that I have to go to the supermarket, I have
associated it with the castle in my city and that I remember perfectly. To each of the
supermarket departments I associate a compartment or room of the castle. And to each
element of the compartments, I associate what needs to be bought

Inside the castle there are several floors or rooms that I can use to categorize information. If it
is not necessary to categorize more deeply, as is the case with bread, I can associate the bread
directly to the compartment element, in this case it would be a chicken.

Finally, the pair of associations to remember is as follows:

CASTLE TOWER + MILK

ROYAL THRONE + MUSSELS

CARPET + SARDINES

GOLD LAMP + HAKE

PRINCESS BED + SCREWS

PRINCESS PAINTING + TACOS

PRINCESS MIRROR + HAMMER

SHOWCASE + PEN

TROPHIES + MAGAZINE

HUNTING SCENE PICTURE + ERASE

FARM HEN + BREAD

Now we would have to visualize these associations including surprising, extravagant


information that makes use of most of our senses and intelligence, following the example of
associations we have made before.

Video example of application of the Loci or Memory Palace method

This video is in English but you can configure the subtitles in Spanish. It is about a journalist
who went to cover the report on a memory championship. He liked it so much that he asked
to be tutored by one of the champions to practice the memorization techniques they practiced
there, including the Memory Palace. The video begins with a small demonstration of this
technique and tells his experience. Recommendable.

My personal opinion

You have to know when to use this technique. If we want to memorize series of words, or
whatever, without requiring a hierarchical or group classification, I see the phonetic
memorization technique as more powerful by associating each word with a number. It is
faster and you can directly access an element without having to remember the previous
sequence to get to it. Therefore, think before applying each technique, what you want to
remember and how you will have to remember it.

If we were to store new information and forget the old, we could use the same buildings we
have used before. The brain always remembers the most recent and forgets the previous. If
we wanted to continue remembering the previous information, we would need to use another
building. This is one of the drawbacks of this technique, which requires many buildings if we
want to remember a lot of information at the same time. In this case, it is better to resort to
the phonetic method.

However, if what we want to memorize is hierarchical information or in a tree structure in


such a way that we need to know what information corresponds to each branch, it is the ideal
technique, since we have different sections where to frame each information: objects, rooms,
plants, buildings or palaces, regions, etc. I hope you start using it soon and tell me your
experience 😉

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