Once you have the mental skills to build memory palaces, you become bottlenecked by how well-organized your external resources are. Often, you’ll have to create your own form of external organization.
I’ve found that trying to create a memory palace based on disorganized external information is asking for trouble. You’ll be trying to manage two cognitive burdens: deciding how to organize the material, and remembering the material itself.
This is unnecessary. Start by organizing the material you want to memorize on the page, where you don’t have to remember it. Once that’s accomplished, then try to organize it in your head by building it into a memory palace.
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Once you have the mental skills to build memory palaces, you become bottlenecked by how well-organized your external resources are. Often, you’ll have to create your own form of external organization.
I’ve found that trying to create a memory palace based on disorganized external information is asking for trouble. You’ll be trying to manage two cognitive burdens: deciding how to organize the material, and remembering the material itself.
This is unnecessary. Start by organizing the material you want to memorize on the page, where you don’t have to remember it. Once that’s accomplished, then try to organize it in your head by building it into a memory palace.