Making Memory Palaces: Keep It Simple!

With my first World Memory Championship coming up in December, I found myself thinking a familiar thought: I need more memory palaces. Having competed in smaller events and applied palaces only sporadically to learning, I’ve been able to scrape by with a library of about 850 loci (ie. by WMC standards, barely any). In addition to needing them for the WMC, more palaces would help me in a host of different ways: fewer ghost images, more training variety, more room for learning applications, etc. There’s just one problem: I’ve always hated making new palaces, and they often don’t stick very well. So here’s what I’ve been doing differently.

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