Sherlock: Is there really a technique of mental palace?

While in the Rose War, Olivia in an open conflict with Kolman to become a Doctor for a strange marvel, or to get into a brilliant Alan Turing shoe, Benedict Kumberbach was able to maintain the size of her talents in Sherlock, British TV series Steven Mafat, who was named after her.

In this modern verification of the detective, the hero uses a method called the “Mental Palace”, that is, it must be said that the first mention of remembering techniques in Season 2. Thanks to this method, Sherlock manages to remember very accurate facts and details, putting them in memory that he has been mentally visualized, such as a place drawn up in many parts.

If the technique of the mental palace was popular with Sherlock, it actually existed after antiquity, where it was used by Greek and Roman speakers to remember their speeches. Are also called the method Lok (“Places” in Latin), Memory Palace, or even the method of seats, this mnemonic technique was invented by the Greek lyric poet Simonid de Cos, BC. J.-C.

And it’s available to anyone! So you can do it to start your shopping list. To build your palace, you need to go through a place that you know very well, for example, your apartment or your room. You can imagine a trip inside this place, which will always be the same to help remember the elements. Then, this is a question of how each place or object is associated with the element of the list on your way.

The more pictures are unusual or absurd, the easier it is to remember. If you have to think about buying tomatoes rather than just imagine tomatoes on your sofa, imagine it is covered with tomatoes that are crushed for example. So continue to remember each element.

Now you are ready for training! However, you do not promise that you automatically have the soul as sharp as Sherlock.

Sherlock is free at M6+, and the stream on Netflix and HBO Max.