Expand your memory palace by using “Mini Palaces”.
If you are short of palaces, and want to extend your existing palace, then you can use “Mini Palaces” within your memory palaces. This should help you memorize each subject and other details that belong to that subject in which you can store at your mini place.
What do I mean by a “Mini Palace”?
Let’s say you have a single memory palace as your office room.
Let’s assume that you have chosen 10 spots/locations within that office. Each spot or location can then be a Mini Palace by using the existing items at each spot or location.
Let’s say the item at your first location was a “Table” in your office. You use that Table as “a mini palace” by choosing 5 spots or locations on that table as a 5 stop mini palace.
What I do is to use;
Left top | Right top | Left bottom | Right bottom | Middle.
So you would have 5 spots on your mini palace > “Table”, and you can then connect the information by way of linking it to each location on that table.
Your next spot or location in your office may have a “Map” on the wall. Again you’d choose 5 spots on that map, left top, right top, left bottom, right bottom, and Middle. And again link your information to each spot on that map. And so on with your other mini palaces.
By using the items in your office, you can convert each of them into a 5 location Mini Palace. Using your mini palaces, you can convert 10 location palace into 50 locations in a single Memory Palace.
Storing the information.
You can simply pair link your information/list, and place it on the left top of the table.
Another way is to Chain Link the information and place it on the left top of your table. And so on with your other data/information. That way you can memorize huge amount of information. So what this means is that you can keep expanding your memory palace which is your office.
You can perhaps use other areas at your office building, such as Hallway, Meeting room, Waiting room, etc. If you use 10 locations in each room, each with “10 items or Mini Palaces with 5 locations” , you’d have 50 x the amount of rooms. This can give you a lot of locations to work with and will help you to memorise your subjects.
A Mini Palace can be any type of item
You can create a mini palace by deliberately choosing the item you like. A 5 stop mini place can be any item you like such as your Hand, your body, somebody else’s body, an Animal, A Car, A Motorbike, and any other everyday items you like to use each with 5 locations.
Creating an Imaginary Memory Palace with 5 Mini Palaces in each room
You may want to create an imaginary palace to place your 5 stops mini palaces.
Once you attach or link the information to those 5 stops Mini Palaces or the items, you can then place the first 5 items into your first room in your main Imaginary Memory Palace. Place the next 5 items in your second room, and so on until all the rooms are filled with 5 items in each room.
Using A Clock Face As A Mini Palace
One of my favorites is to use to use a Clock for a quick memory palace on the fly.
A Clock face has 12 numbers to represent each hour. If we then use the outer circle then it becomes a 24 hour clock which is the number of hours in any given day. What this means is that we can use the clock as either a 12 or a 24 stops Mini Memory Palace.
What you need to do is to add a pre memorized peg to each hour on the clock so you can link your information to each peg on the clock.
Here are the ones I’ve created with all the pegs for the inner and the outer circles. Each peg can be used as a 5 stop mini palace you can use to memorise any type of information you like.
