Brain Attic Mind Palace

A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Brain attic mind palace.

A mind palace certainly sounds grander befitting holmes and his outsized ego as watson notes in season 2 of sherlock. The brain attic versus the mind palace. Why the brain attic. The brain attic is much more broad konnikova says.

From brain attic to mind palace. It is more a ragbag of ideas that are the flotsam and jetsam of my mind and indeed of my crazy butterfly life presented in their organic and original reverse jumbled order. The attic can be broken down roughly speaking into two components. Simply because the material is not grand enough nor well organised enough to be classed as a sherlock holmes style mind palace.

How it processes that. I consider that a man s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library where he can get it if he wants it sherlock holmes 1891. The development of sherlock holmess art of deduction from a c.

Of course for the updated bbc series the attic mentioned in the original literature was updated to a larger grander space befitting the name of mind palace.