another boy who lived

19th February 2012

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forthelionhearted asked: I've seen you talk about how your mind palace is Hogwarts and how you have subjects organized by room. But doesn't that mean your Divination room for EVERYTHING Philosophy would have to be huge? Can you explain how that works? I imagine there's a lot of information, you know?

Not at all.

I have quite a queer memory generally and am quite good at remembering random things, or pulling them from the abscess of my brain when I never realised I knew them. So while the palace is a tool it is not something I tend to rely upon in day-to-day life. When I’m away from school a majority of it is merely collections of oh-this-is-interesting which form a kind of lucid comfort.

When you have a mind palace you do need to learn to be quite ruthless with discarding things once they are no longer needed. I’m only keeping the palace I described in the original post in tact currently because of you guys; usually I’d of deleted a majority of what’s in there by now, only keeping anything I could shift along to the next exam. Plus if you go over things several times due to your mind palace you will remember strands once the trigger has been deleted, so it’s not as if you forget everything associated with that trigger forever, you’ll just forget most of it. But if it’s of such little importance that you delete it then this isn’t really a problem.

You can choose to keep you palace in tact forever but this sort of tactic is generally only called upon by, eg, doctors, who need that quick recall of anatomy etc. In that case, yes, I imagine it would be very large, but as it is a permenent structure reviewing would likely be very easy after a short time.

Also, palaces need not be that big anyway. As I said in the post, I interlink triggers and, for me, a trigger can actually set off long strands of arguments. So there’s perhaps thirty triggers in a room needed for an exam, which I understand sounds like a lot but once you become firm with the technique and employ interlinking then it soon doesn’t seem like much at all.

I hope I answered adequately!

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