Foer learns the almost-lost art of the memory palace and meets the small group of nutballs that are keeping it alive on the international memory circuit. With bonus material on the sciences of memory, forgetting, autism, savantism, and the nature of expertise. Highly recommended.
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Ah. In my Audible.com queue. Glad to know it’s got memory palace stuff.
My memory palaces are currently memory 1BR’s with a roommate. However, it seems like a sensible goal to build up several reusable palaces. I have been most impressed by the technique of associating any piece of information with an intense image, leading to a gut feeling that a memory must be correct and cannot possibly be otherwise.
I haven’t tried the technique yet myself. Have to find something I want to remember that badly 🙂