25: The Memory Palace

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, A.J. walks us through the ancient method of loci and its modern uses. Ever see Sherlock poke his brain and information comes out? Well, the memory palace is a real thing, but it doesn't exactly work like that.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know the podcast about classical stuff that you should know by classical educators who you also should know. We're good guys.
0:21.6	If you have to say that, doesn't that mean?
0:24.8	That's like the worst pickup line.
0:26.8	Hi, you should know me.
0:27.7	You should know me.
0:28.3	I'm a good guy.
0:30.1	No, I know that doesn't work.
0:32.1	That's just got weird.
0:33.2	And my name is Graham Donaldson, and I am a English rhetoric teacher at Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas.
0:41.8	And I'm joined here by A.J. Hanenberg.
0:44.2	That's me.
0:45.1	Also a rhetoric teacher at Veritas Academy.
0:48.8	And Thomas Magby.
0:49.7	And English.
0:50.4	Oh, in English.
0:51.1	Well, rhetoric, English.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	Excuse me, sir.
0:52.9	If we were truly classical, we wouldn't have these subjects,
0:56.0	and we would all just teach everything. Oh, there's a whole
0:58.2	other... Let's have a topic there. Oh, there's a whole other
1:00.1	podcast. And we're also
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