You Can Create Your Own Mind Palace

Learn Sherlock Holmes’ Powerful Mental Memory Trick

4 min readFeb 14, 2018

Sherlock Holmes’ awesome mind palace was shown in The BBC’s Sherlock season 3 finale “His Last Vow.”

Sherlock Holmes is a master of deduction. He uses that and other reasoning skills to solve crimes no one else can.

But there is another mental trick in Sherlock’s arsenal that anyone can learn to take memory to another level. The mind palace.

Also called memory theatre, or memory journey, a mind palace is a mnemonic device that has been around at least as long as the ancient Greeks.

Cicero the Roman politician and lawyer used it to memorize long speeches.

Today professional memory performers use it to quickly memorize complete decks of cards or lists of numbers in the 100’s.

A mind palace is not a physical location, but a set of rooms or specific location you build in your mind.