Brain Attic Mind Palace

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Brain attic mind palace.

I consider that a man s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. The brain attic versus the mind palace. A mind palace certainly sounds grander befitting holmes and his outsized ego as watson notes in season 2 of sherlock. From brain attic to mind palace.

A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Simply because the material is not grand enough nor well organised enough to be classed as a sherlock holmes style mind palace. How it takes in information. The attic s structure is how our mind works.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library where he can get it if he wants it sherlock holmes 1891. It is more a ragbag of ideas that are the flotsam and jetsam of my mind and indeed of my crazy butterfly life presented in their organic and original reverse jumbled order. The brain attic is much more broad konnikova says. The development of sherlock holmess art of deduction from a c.

Of course for the updated bbc series the attic mentioned in the original literature was updated to a larger grander space befitting the name of mind palace.