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  • hey guys this is Ron White from the National Geographic show brain games on

  • the History Channel show Stan Lee's superhumans

  • have you ever wondered what the Sherlock Holmes mind palaces

  • have you ever heard of a mind palace while my show you what it is

  • and how to use it to memorize anything freakishly fast

  • is a crazy cool skill check this out on

  • this

  • I so what is all mind palace will first law few things

  • number one it's not just the work of fiction it's an

  • actual real thing and it was not admitted by Sherlock Holmes

  • number two it actually dates back about twenty five hundred years to 477 BC was

  • invented by a man named Simonedes

  • in Greece a mind palace is essentially a room or a building that you have

  • memorized and you use the

  • locations in that room to store data let me give me an example

  • your your friends house you take off your jacket when you walk in the door

  • and then you set your jacket down and chair you go throughout the party spend

  • time at your friends house that day and in 3-4 hours when it comes time to leave

  • you know exactly you need to go back to that chair

  • to get your coat why because the chair hell that

  • coat in your brain and that is exactly what I'm I'm palaces

  • if your friend had two or three or four five pieces the furniture one you could

  • put

  • I had and one you can put your keys as you could in theory go back to each one

  • of those locations and pick up the items that you left

  • the Mind Palace works the same way you memorize locations in a room

  • and then you later go back to those locations to retrieve the data that you

  • want to remember

  • the easiest way to build your very own mind palace

  • is to stand in the doorway every room of your house

  • standard or away start the left go around the room clockwise and pick five

  • pieces of furniture

  • number them one to 3 core

  • 5 then go to the next room stand in the doorway in that room

  • and label them 67 a 9 and 10

  • go to the next room 11 12 13 14 15

  • and every single room in your house picked five pieces of furniture

  • and number them going around the room clockwise a few rules are from here

  • make big items don't pick small items and number to spread 'em at around the

  • room

  • good items to pick will be things like deaths are better TV to refrigerators

  • stoves

  • or microwaves are sinks are bookshelves are computers

  • pic a lot different items but if you use a chair in one room

  • don't use it sure

  • and the next these locations are going to be places where you at a mentally

  • store data

  • in your mind house now what you have these locations in your room number

  • that I watch it close your eyes and i watch the sale all your files

  • 1 all the way up to twenty or thirty have many have and then backwards 32.1%

  • same forwards and backwards over and over again and tell you know them cold

  • or and tell somebody gets a what was number 10 and you could say what it was

  • just like that

  • next a common objection to this is a sometimes people say wow Ron this is too

  • much work

  • are you really want me to number all these pieces the furniture

  • in my house and memorize all these pieces the furniture just to memorize

  • allister words are are something else that's not really true

  • you already have these locations memorized am not asking you to memorize

  • your house

  • you already have it memorized I'm just asking you to number and what you have

  • it number

  • it's gonna be a crazy cool skill the gym you use to memorize anything you want

  • now

  • let me give you an example how you use this to memorize something

  • let's say that you want to memorize a list two words on that list words number

  • eight was a dog

  • well you already determined watcher a profile is maybe it was your better your

  • dresser or desk for a computer

  • let's say it was a computer if number eight is your computer

  • and I give you the word dog to memorize you visualize a dog

  • on your computer the dogs by from the computer the dog barking at the puter

  • the dogs run around the computer the more action emotion you see

  • the better then I fake number nice water and let's say that

  • your number nine piece of furniture is a chair we see that sharing your brain and

  • you imagine water pouring into the sky

  • the water goes all over that chair then later when you want to recall the data

  • you go back around your mind palace and on the number eight spot the computer

  • you see a dog so you know the word was a dog

  • on the number nine spot a chair you see water

  • so you know that number nine was water you always use

  • every file in chronological order and what I mean by that

  • this if I say number 8

  • is a dog and you think all my number

  • 13 piece of furniture is the mat where my dog sleeps I was going to match in my

  • dog where a number thirteen

  • you don't do that you put the dog in the mind powers in the

  • or that it falls it was the first word you put on the first piece of furniture

  • if the third world people on the third piece of furniture if the aight word

  • you put on the eight piece of furniture you put in the order that it falls not

  • where it makes sense in your house and that's important

  • tip for the mind palace alright guys that is the Sherlock Holmes mind palace

  • and I have used it for over two decades to memorize all kinds of things list

  • forms books and even set the record for fastest memorize the debit cards in the

  • United States you want more in-depth training on this I have a free training

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  • for even the link in the description below a great training that will guide

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  • exactly how to build your own Sherlock Holmes mind palace

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