Brain Attic Mind Palace

The brain attic is much more broad konnikova says.

Brain attic mind palace.

Doyles 19th century stories to contemporary tv adaptations eingereicht von. 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. 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. How it processes that.

A mind palace certainly sounds grander befitting holmes and his outsized ego as watson notes in season 2 of sherlock. The attic s structure is how our mind works. 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. From brain attic to mind palace.

The brain attic versus the mind palace. The attic can be broken down roughly speaking into two components. 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. 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.