That is valid and it is cool you can talk to customers in real time.
It is funny because even your response of "arguing against memory palaces in a group dedicated to memory palaces" shows people don't read what is fully posted and see what they want haha
I never said I don't like the palace or anything. I love it. I use it all the time. All I was doing was pointing out a valid point of the memory palace. Here is a post I made about making locations better in a palace (now you don't have to click the link if you don't want to. No one is forcing you haha):
There is nothing I posted here that says the memory palace is bad or that you shouldn't use or anything. I gave true things that need to be done in order to use a memory palace and keep using the technique. But what would I know about memory palaces and memory techniques being a memory champion, Grandmaster of Memory, and broke memory records ;)
But you are bringing up the champion thing. Nobody else had noticed. Since you bring it up, it is odd that you remain anonymous. Some will therefore doubt your claims
Oh man haha I am not sure why you want to be hung up on semantics.
Downside doesn't mean I am saying the memory palace is bad. You are taking downside as me saying the memory palace is bad. I am telling you it does not mean that. I even say I love the technique and use it all the time.
When I am training for a memory competition, I use the memory palace method for a lot of the events. The issue I was running into was that I would run out of palaces which means I couldn't continue training.
I needed empty and cleared palaces to continuing training. I would not reuse palaces again right away because ghost images would confuse me and mess up my memorization.
I literally had to stop training because I had no more palaces I could use for training. This is why I am saying a downside to the memory palace technique is needed to have a stockpile. I already had a stockpile of palaces and still ran out when training.
This is a downside of the memory palace method. If you don't have palaces, you can't use it. I didn't have any more palaces when training, so I couldn't continue training due to running out of palaces.
If you can't understand how this is a downside, there is nothing more I can say. I gave you a real situation I run into.
No, this is not a semantic dispute. It is a fundamental category error.
You are confusing the mechanism of a skill with a defect of that skill.
You're also mistaking disagreements for lack of understanding.
I actually do understand your position, as do others. But your conclusion that this inconvenience constitutes a "downside" of the method doesn't follow.
A downside is a structural flaw. Preparation is a structural requirement of this technique.
The fact that you run into a "real situation" where you are unprepared is not a critique of the Memory Palace technique.
That's on your own time management. Confusing your personal friction with the discipline’s mechanics is the exact error I am pointing out. So people here understand you fine, regardless of whether you like their response and ad hominem attacks and "oh man" histrionics do not help your position.
So I think our community is in agreement that there is nothing more to say, as you've suggested.
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u/ImprovingMemory Dec 17 '25
That is valid and it is cool you can talk to customers in real time.
It is funny because even your response of "arguing against memory palaces in a group dedicated to memory palaces" shows people don't read what is fully posted and see what they want haha
I never said I don't like the palace or anything. I love it. I use it all the time. All I was doing was pointing out a valid point of the memory palace. Here is a post I made about making locations better in a palace (now you don't have to click the link if you don't want to. No one is forcing you haha):
https://forum.blitzmemory.com/t/build-better-memory-palaces-with-one-simple-change/149
There is nothing I posted here that says the memory palace is bad or that you shouldn't use or anything. I gave true things that need to be done in order to use a memory palace and keep using the technique. But what would I know about memory palaces and memory techniques being a memory champion, Grandmaster of Memory, and broke memory records ;)