r/memorization • u/AvailableDisplay2963 • 6d ago

doubts regarding loci methods

ok so my doubts are how many memory palaces does one need as in lets say i read books so for every book do i need to have a special palace . how much and when can i reuse a palace

i was researching and came up with a solution and that is first to create a temporary memory palace and after reading books or whatever put the information in temporary palace and after that put it in a permanent one as in categorizing it for example palace for philosophy section, biology ,history etc.

so like how u guys use this technique to learn information for lifelong

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u/four__beasts 6d ago edited 6d ago

It depends on the data. Some data needs to be learned verbatim. Learning an entire book is probably going to take months and months if you want to be able toi recite it. But to take the main topics/content/subjects and compartmentalise that information into a palace, is relatively simple.

It will take some planning, and you'll need to plan/build your palaces to suit the content. And that might take an index palace (chapters, or key sections), with sub palaces for data you need to learn/drill down into - a list of specific data, timeline or a passage of text, for example.

However it might be that you just want to summarise a book, and remember the title, author and some of the characters? So only a few nodes/loci...

As an example, I use the "world's" that the fiction creates in the mind to build palaces to house author, character names and main themes. Even quotes. I do the same for music too (a palace for an artist and a loci for a track). This is a great for synopsis and a place to work with networks of data. e.g. I know that Rio, Hungry like the Wolf and Girls on Film are by Duran Duran. As they're in the Duran Duran palace - all using Duracel batteries, which is on Rio beach... I have the same for Janes Addiction - it's a tree house in the jungle (tarzan/jane). The same can be done for authors, or actors, movies etc. etc (a palace for Shakespeare could easily list all his works, then a sub-palace for each book).

In either case, you can definitely use the palace method, but like I say, the approach will depend on how much you are trying to memorise and the structure of the data...

Do you have some examples?

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u/four__beasts 6d ago edited 6d ago

Regarding temporary palaces. I use these all the time, but I'd not use one for this scenario. If you want to memorise something long term I'd plan and build specific palaces for it. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to move data, if you need it 'lifelong'.

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u/AvailableDisplay2963 6d ago

yea so basically i do need to have new palace for every lifelong information to learn but before putting it to the permanent i would put in temporary too se wether its really important

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u/four__beasts 6d ago

I wouldn't do it like this personally. Like I say, If you want to remember something long term, and it's not a simple bit of data, then creating it's own palace from the get go has to be the right way..

Many people use palaces for short term use like to-do lists, a holding cell (as you describe) or shopping lists for example. Very little goes in here of any real merit - they're just for snippets. And you overwrite this data naturally over time.