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Is a memory palace actually useful? It helped me memorize the first 20 digits of pi

It felt like a gargantuan achievement – I’m someone who regularly forgets the most important item on a shopping listTell us about your colorful wedding dressThere’s a scene from the 2010s series Sherlock that I think about a lot. Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) visits his “mind palace” to figure out how he and his friend/minion John Watson (Martin Freeman) got drugged. Words, phrases and images float around his head, and he moves them around with his hands.“It’s a memory technique,” Watson explains to a confused onlooker. “You plot a map of a location – it doesn’t have to be a real place – and then you deposit memories there.” Theoretically, he says, you can never forget anything, he says: “All you have to do is find your way back to it.” Continue reading...

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