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The mind palace was originally created by the Greeks.

It is referred to as the Memory Palace, mind palace, or the method of Loci.

The Greeks made the mind palace off of the idea that the brain is better at memorising places and locations than facts.

Your palace is a memorisation of the layout of somewhere familiar to you filled with images which, by association, trigger your memory.

Your palace is a memory aid, not a memory. You have to be aware of storing things in there in order for them to be there.

Most people will only need a small palace (like a single room) for temporary storage; hence my talk of deleting things from my hard-drive. I use a large one, as I like to, but I also have a temporary storage section.
Your mind palace should be somewhere you have been before, or, as I have done, you can spend time to piece together places you have been to, into your mind palace.

Having and maintaining a mind palace is not as easy as you would think. It is hard to build, and hard to keep up with. While it is difficult, it is very rewarding.

-SH

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