I have a question about the history memory palace in general. The other examples of memory palaces I’ve seen, like elements and presidents, always seem to be very orderly and defined. You can only order elements and presidents in one way and you can’t leave anything out. Ford has to come after Nixon and before Carter and there will never be any other 1970s presidents to add. But with history there are well over 100 stories that we hear about all the time. Two people who came up recently with my son just from reading and conversations are Judah Maccabee and King Tut. If we were in the process of building a memory palace I think he would want to add them. Would that mess up the memory palace though? And when the memory palace is complete, what do you do with new stories? It seems like the way to add new stories would be to memorize the dates, which of course is the classic thing everyone complains about with history.
You're right that choosing centuries/decades for dots isn't completionist in the same way as a more traditional memory palace. This is, indeed, a downside. The upshot of it, though, is that it can contain (literally) everything — which is quite a plus!
If you're making this in a household, both King Tut and Judas Maccabeus would be great choices for a story. (Space 5/spot 4 and Space 7/spot 4, respectively.) We might be choosing the latter to go into our big version (wrote up a draft story and everything), but even if we don't, you could also add in other side stories, and put icons of them on the walls.
Which, I suppose, is the clearer answer — because this is structured to hold everything, you can add in as many extra stories as you'd like.
I have a question about the history memory palace in general. The other examples of memory palaces I’ve seen, like elements and presidents, always seem to be very orderly and defined. You can only order elements and presidents in one way and you can’t leave anything out. Ford has to come after Nixon and before Carter and there will never be any other 1970s presidents to add. But with history there are well over 100 stories that we hear about all the time. Two people who came up recently with my son just from reading and conversations are Judah Maccabee and King Tut. If we were in the process of building a memory palace I think he would want to add them. Would that mess up the memory palace though? And when the memory palace is complete, what do you do with new stories? It seems like the way to add new stories would be to memorize the dates, which of course is the classic thing everyone complains about with history.
You're right that choosing centuries/decades for dots isn't completionist in the same way as a more traditional memory palace. This is, indeed, a downside. The upshot of it, though, is that it can contain (literally) everything — which is quite a plus!
If you're making this in a household, both King Tut and Judas Maccabeus would be great choices for a story. (Space 5/spot 4 and Space 7/spot 4, respectively.) We might be choosing the latter to go into our big version (wrote up a draft story and everything), but even if we don't, you could also add in other side stories, and put icons of them on the walls.
Which, I suppose, is the clearer answer — because this is structured to hold everything, you can add in as many extra stories as you'd like.
Re: common meter rap... my mind instantly went to the Fresh Prince theme song. 😆 I think it works!?
Just kidding... I'm totally wrong. Sounded good in my head but alas, I should have double checked before commenting.
If it's anything, I spent a whole day believing it did! I think it goes 4 beats per line, instead of alternating between 4 and 3.
This could, of course, be a fine reason for someone to set their memory palace (or even just certain rooms in it) to 4 beats exclusively.