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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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-  * 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': which way of ordering gives you the richest 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)
-  * 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.  +  * A mindpalace is more limited to memorising and doesn't engage with the environment at all really 
-  * You may know an area from memory, but going there physically always gives much more lively associations and surprising hooks. +  * linear / narrative models have a much wider impact than retention of memory, because they help see relationships and patterns 
-  * I make very basic sketches as a shorthand to settle the hooks, associations, narrative, otherwise new variants keep coming up every time I go through it.+  * usually there is 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" (things in the environment tat trigger associations). 
 +  * I make very basic sketches as a shorthand to settle the hooks, associations, narrative, otherwise new variants keep coming up every time I walk through the street. Which is confusing. The sketches help me solidify the most effective associations: like George Washington washing his hair in the beautysalon
   * This sketching also helps to figure out how much character I need to generate to capture details.   * This sketching also helps to figure out how much character I need to generate to capture details.
-  * If characters are needed, what action and prop can I give them? +  * If characters are needed, what activity and prop can I give them? (these really help to enliven and thus make stronger the "picture" or little narrative for your data)
   * Later in the process I can see if I need extra emphasis using the physicality of make visible or tangible artefacts to endorse the memories?   * Later in the process I can see if I need extra emphasis using the physicality of make visible or tangible artefacts to endorse the memories?
-  * Lynne says that once established you will be inclined to do additional research on your subjects, I can confirm that. Making a mind-palace or walk, does trigger curiosity and you start to add more and more details into your subects, hooks, nodes.. (I observe this even after only two or three weeks of full-on engagement.)+  * Lynne says that once established you will be inclined to do additional research on your subjects, I can confirm that. Making a mind-palace or walk, does trigger curiosity and you start to add more and more details into your subjects, hooks, nodes.. (I observe this even after only two or three weeks of full-on engagement.)
  
  
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