@Practical_Psych & @O_B_S_E_R_V_E (#LoganPortenier) explain SHERLOCK's #MindPalace, which is the way I "store words" here | @Sherlockology #Palace #Palatial

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'You never forget anything if you can "find your way back to it."' - Watson (Martin Freeman), the long-&-short of Sherlock's technique 
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'find your way back to it' ... reminds me of a principle of neuroplasticity—the way your brain's signal finds its way around your brain. The Principle I'm talking about: as the signal moves along one path over-&-over, the nerve-connection gets stronger-&-stronger (helping the signal move faster-&-faster each time).

kinda the way you can remember your way around your house or -your school or -your office etc. without any lights or without really paying attention ... you just 'know your way around your mind-palace.

In this mind-palace, I keep 'my' lexicon (or the lexicon 'of others')—helping us remember the words by reviewing 'how they're connected to each other' (the way bones in anatomy are connected to each other in history).

'Palace' (below-hyperlinked to your opportunity to add SHERLOCK (Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman) to your Mind-Palace) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which your Mind Palace stands ...
The word “Palace” (although Holmes originally used a Mind-'Attic' (in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet) is built on words that mean “the |Palatine |Hill (in |Rome, where Augustus Caesar's House stood, later the |Magnificent, |Splendid, Stately Residence of |Nero)” (|Stake, Enclosure (|Pale), |Pales (Italic Goddess of Shepherds & Cattle)).
I'm reminded how Lord Jesus Christ tells us that 'In Our Father's house, there are many "mansions" (maybe the word we should've had Him say there was "Palaces").' And–when we die–we actually do live in the 'Heaven on our Minds' ... our bodies buried or about-to-be-burned, our 'presence' lives on in deep inside our brains (or 'flying about in the æther' when our brains are burned or decay away?)

Anyway, Practical Psychology lists a few 'topics' ('connecting rooms'? a.k.a. 'joints?') involved in mind-palaces ... which they also call 'Memory Palaces' (the Method of Loci (Places ... the actual base of 'In the First Place' or 'In the Second Place'), where you match Temporary Information with Permanent Items in Familiar Places), a process which he & Logan Portenier (and I) outline thus:


  1. Envision The Layout - remember a place that you're so familiar-with you can go through it without 'thinking about it) 
  2. Start the Elaborative Encoding with the place's Permanent Items (Furniture Sets, Wall Art, Bannisters) 
  3. continue the Elaborative Encoding by deciding on a Determined Route (set order of rooms or -items or -wise (clock- or counter-clock-) you remember them-in)
  4. then you can Add Information (convert 'what you want to remember' into Absurd Visuals, placing the visuals along your Determined Route) 
  5. Multiple Mind-Palaces (you want to remember more than one 'set of information,' yes? then you need more-than-one Common Place for more-than-one Common Use! (e.g. Cards-in-a-Deck go to Caesar's Palace Casino, no? Car-Parts & -Tools go in the Garage, etc.)
It's a lot of Work! and just one of MANY techniques. I bet Meditation allows you to do all this stuff without 'Obsessing' on it!

 (Although it might be interesting to 'follow the trail of clues' that led me from "the end of the video above" to "the O_B_S_E_R_V_E Twitter-account')


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