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   * **our memory for geography**: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.   * **our memory for geography**: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.
   * **our memory of character**: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. More then “thinking stones and mountains are alive” oral cultures they give their landscape character.   * **our memory of character**: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. More then “thinking stones and mountains are alive” oral cultures they give their landscape character.
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 ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ==== ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ====
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-  * The first step is looking at what structure / order makes sense for your 'data': ordered by alphabet, history, habitat, species, colour, etc +  * The first step is looking at what structure / order makes sense for your 'data': 
-  * Do I store it linearly? (for example a timeline-walk) +  * Do I store it linearly? (for example a timeline) 
   * Or grouped in a mind palace?(for example animal species)   * Or grouped in a mind palace?(for example animal species)
 +  * A mindpalace is more oriented towards memorising and doesn't engage with the environment at all really
 +  * linear / narrative models have a much wider impact than retention of memory, because they help see relationships and patterns
   * it seems I go through a process of a few days figuring out what the most useful ordering might be and small tests with 5 or so elements trying out ways of encoding.    * it seems I go through a process of a few days figuring out what the most useful ordering might be and small tests with 5 or so elements trying out ways of encoding. 
   * You may know an area from memory, but going there physically always gives much more lively associations and surprising hooks.   * You may know an area from memory, but going there physically always gives much more lively associations and surprising hooks.
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