Hey, guys, Ron White here, two-time USA Memory Champion.
I'm going to answer a question today about the Mind Palace.
I have this group right here on Facebook.
I don't know if you can see this.
Memorize -- it's a group that I run on Facebook where people ask me memory questions.
If you're not on it, please join it.
One of the most common questions I get is, what happens if I run out of pieces of furniture?
Can I continue to reuse the furniture over and over again?
And what they're referring to is the Mind Palace, the Memory Palace.
If you don't know what the Memory Palace is or the Mind Palace is, click the link below
in the description.
There's a video there that explains to you what the Mind Palace is, and then you can
come back to this video.
But, here's the question: Ron, I only live in a one-bedroom house.
Or Ron, I only have 20 pieces of furniture in my house.
Or what happens when I use all 50 pieces of furniture in my house, then what am I going
to do?
Well, use your creativity.
I have in my low sides [sounds like] -- what's another name for it -- in my Memory Palace,
I have about 1,300 files.
Do I have 1,300 files, locations, in my home?
Not at all.
I have about -- where I live right now, I have 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 -- 40 files
in my current home.
But what do I do?
As soon as I used up all of the pieces of furniture in my home, then I walk out the
door and I pick five files in the hall.
Then, I go down the elevator and I pick five files in the lobby of my condo.
And, then, I walk down the street and I'm picking locations on the street -- that stop
sign, that trashcan, that sign.
Then, I walk into a restaurant, and I walked around that restaurant and picked 20 spots.
Then, I walked out of that restaurant, picked spots along the street.
Then, I walked into another restaurant and I picked 10 or 15 spots in that restaurant.
Then, I walked into a hotel and I picked 40 pieces of furniture in that hotel.
And then, I numbered pieces of furniture in my mom's house, my friend's house, my favorite
restaurant, the book store, school.
The office where I'm at right here, I've got locations numbered.
So, when people always ask me, Ron, what do I do if I only live in a one-bedroom house?
Or what do I do if I run out of pieces of furniture in my house?
Well, walk outside your house and start numbering stuff along the walk.
The stadium where the Texas Rangers play in Arlington, Texas, the baseball stadium, I
got 30 locations numbered there.
Then, what I did was, is I went back and I thought of all the previous places I've lived
in the past ten years and I mapped out all those.
And, when I say mapped out all those, since there was 1,300 of them, I did draw them out.
In other words, some of them, I drew a map of the layout.
Others, I just numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
And others of them, I took my camera -- like the hotel, I took my camera and I walked around.
I took pictures of that chair, that couch, that picture, those stairs, and then I put
them in a PowerPoint presentation.
Whenever I made a Mind Palace out of a street in downtown Fort Worth, I took pictures as
I walked through downtown Fort Worth.
And then, I've got this PowerPoint with like 800 pictures on it.
It's a route that I walked in a way that made sense, and then I just click, click, click,
and I reviewed that PowerPoint over, and over, and over, and over again until I had memorized
that route and all the stops, and I had memorized that Mind Palace.
So, a Mind Palace doesn't have to be inside.
It can be outside.
It could be a park.
It could be a sports stadium.
I hope this answers your question.
It does not matter if you just live in a one-bedroom house.
You can use any building or location -- your school, your office, your favorite restaurant,
a sports stadium, your friend's house, your mom's house.
And a couple of ways that I touched on in this video on how to do that, get a piece
of paper and draw a map of it, like a blueprint, and write it out or just number 1 through
20.
Or, do what I did.
If you have hundreds and hundreds of them, go on a walk, take a picture, then put those
pictures in a PowerPoint, and just click the next slide until you have that route or that
Mind Palace memorized.
I do have a video on, "Is It Okay to Re-Use Your Furniture?"
and absolutely 100% positively, it is.
You do want to re-use your furniture over and over again.
If the material, however, is really similar -- for example, if you want to memorize the
lineup for the Texas Rangers from 2016 and you put them all in your house, and then you
want to memorize the lineup from 2015, well there's a lot of same players.
There's a lot of similar crossover there.
You're probably going to want to use a different set of files because you're going to confuse
the data.
So, if the lists are similar, use a different set of files.
I have a video down below in the link as well that really describes that as well.
In other words, it describes, are you able to re-use your files over and over again?
So, this is my memory training question, my memory training answer.
It came in today in my Facebook group and I just wanted to take a second to answer it.
I hope this helps you out.
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