"You've been waiting to build that dream place of yours, there in the spot you picked out a few years back, between the pons and the frontal lobe. Maybe you want to crib some designs from your friend Steve's place; it's got space for the first 115 digits of pi and the names of all 266 popes. But is now really the time for a new memory palace?"
"And by the way, did you know that the highest score ever recorded in an NFL game is the Chicago Bears' December 1940 performance over the Redskins, in which they earned 73 points? Don't feel too bad for Washington-they also set a scoring record! However, it's one matched many times before and since: zero points. Remarkably, this was a championship game, the Super Bowl equivalent of the era."
Build a memory palace in the neural location between the pons and the frontal lobe to store large, organized information. Designs can include spaces for long sequences such as the first 115 digits of pi and for extensive lists such as the names of all 266 popes. Many mnemonic palaces stand empty because people have ceded routine remembering and thinking to AI systems. Rebuilding memorization habits and constructing personalized mnemonic architecture preserves cognitive skill, cultivates pride, and enables self-directed knowledge retention. Simple daily prompts and trivia questions serve as raw materials and practice exercises for establishing and populating a new memory palace.
Read at The Atlantic
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