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The Countdown To Sherlock Holmes Week…The Game Is Afoot… (live countdown & code)

The Game Is Afoot… The Week Is Ahead…

Find out more about the exciting things coming up by clicking the image below:

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Find out more here:
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To see the full countdown page I’ve made at TimeAndDate.com click here.

“Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same.” -Sherlock Holmes

I’ve been named an ambassador for The Undershaw Preservation Trust. Extremely honored…

Earlier today I was named an ambassador for the amazing Undershaw Preservation Trust. I am deeply honored to be a part of this incredible group. You can see that announcement below via their Facebook page:

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Screenshot via their Facebook page, click to visit.

A little bit about The Undershaw Preservation Trust…

[image error]With Mark Gatiss as their Patron/Sponsor the UPT was set up in August 2009 by John Gibson, FRICS and co-founders Lynn Gale and Sue Meadows. I am extremely grateful and excited to be a part of this amazing organization dedicated to the protection of the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Please take a minute to visit their website at www.SaveUndershaw.com as well as follow them on Twittter at www.Twitter.com/Save_Undershaw and of course like them on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/SaveUndershaw.

There is still much to be done and an enormous amount of ways to get involved and help this wonderful cause. Please take the time to visit the links above and find out more. -Joe Riggs

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The former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Millions of Fans Gear Up for the Annual Sherlock Holmes Week 30th July – 5th August

Millions of Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide will take part in a week of celebration of the world’s most famous detective in the first annual Sherlock Holmes Week from 30th July – 5th August. Holmes has had a resurgence in the last two years with two major Hollywood motion pictures and the success of BBC Sherlock. The week is backed by the main societies and organisations in the world. http://www.sherlockholmesweek.com is the website where fans can register their local events and take part in competitions.

The motto of the week is “By the fans, for the fans,” and local groups are being encouraged to celebrate the week in their own way — from special screenings to picnics. Events have been confirmed across the USA, UK and as far afield as Thailand and Canada. The theme of this year’s week is to promote the Save Undershaw campaign — a trust striving to save the former home of the creator of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (http://www.saveundershaw.com and http://www.facebook.com/saveundershaw). The campaign was recently captured in the book “Sherlock’s Home – The Empty House,” which featured contributions from Holmes legends Stephen Fry and Mark Gatiss.

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There are two major competitions. The Sherlock Holmes Fashion Awards 2012 on 2nd August enables fans to design costumes for characters from the first two series of BBC Sherlock. The best three from each character will be selected by a leading blog that covers all manners of craft, including costume design (Crafty Crafty) and entered into Awards — with some very special judges and wonderful prizes. High quality entries will be submitted for coverage on Crafty Crafty and their sister site Dollymix.

Steampunk Holmes is the most eagerly awaited interactive book in history. Several years in the making, this Steampunk version of Sherlock Holmes will have a series of books in all formats, but most stunning on the iPad. This competition for Holmes fans gives them the chance to be a part of publishing history and have their artwork included in the first book:Steampunk Holmes – The Legacy of The Nautilus. Information on entering the competitions is on the website.

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Supporters of the week include the top fan sites Sherlockology, The Baker Street Babes and I Hear of Sherlock. Special guest will be leading mentalist Joe Riggs aka The Real Sherlock Holmes.

The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 3 will feature celebrities and experts from around the world coming together for the 3rd debate — the first two featured head-to-head clashes between BBC Sherlock and Warner Brothers Sherlock and included fans from more than 23 countries.

So who can get involved? Any Sherlock Holmes fan, wherever they are. The team have already been contacted by fans as far away as Japan and China. It seems that the popularity of Sherlock Holmes is truly global.

 

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My Webcast Interview With Ross K – Very Fun & An Ending Even I Couldn’t Have Predicted!

[image error]This is the video from my recent interview from Ross K Foad. For those of you not familiar with Ross’s work he does amazing video book reviews and is part of a web mini series titled ‘No Place Like Holmes.’ He recently asked me if I would be interested in doing a webcam type interview for his show. To be quite honest, I expected the question would come that he saved for last yet I can never predict how ‘on point’ I am going to be. I certainly didn’t expect to have to be shut off for going to close to ‘home’!!! I spoke with Ross afterward and as you can tell from the video, there are no hard feelings! Thanks Ross!

Find out more about Ross at www.nplh.co.uk

The Interview:

Like he said he contacted me afterward to tell me all was well and why he had to shut me off lol. I didn’t know  how important the “K” really was to him it seems. As well, I knew from the moment this interview ended that a  very special moment had happened. Thanks to Ross wanting to do a web interview it has given me a chance to answer some great questions and show Ross & all of you some of what it is that I do. I’m generally not correct about everything I go for when I do these types of demonstrations. Considering what little I had to work with on the screen I was more than a little amazed myself about how much was spot on! Those moments are the best and something that I treasure every single time.

 I also know so many of you love to leave questions and comments that I’ve linked to a Forum just for that very thing. You will see the link at the bottom left hand side of this post. Thank you all so much!

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“The Real Sherlock Holmes” Launched Today! My First Copy & A Few Thank Yous…

[image error]My new book ‘The Real Sherlock Holmes – The Curious History and Mysterious Methods of a True Mental Specialist’ was released today and just as well I’ve received my first copy!

I am filled with deep gratitude and excitement due to all the amazing support I’ve received from around the world. As well I must thank all the amazing characters, fictional and non, that have filled my life with adventure and knowledge.

The book is available at all good bookstores including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and in all formats including Amazon Kindle. Fans outside the US and UK can get free delivery from Book Depository.

A Portion Of All Proceeds Will Be Going To The Undershaw Preservation Trust. “Save Undershaw”

Also to note is that a portion of all proceeds from my book will being going to the Save Undershaw campaign.[image error] Undershaw is the former home of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Undershaw was where Conan Doyle lived when he received the knighthood in 1902. It was from Undershaw that Conan Doyle championed the cause of George Edalji, falsely imprisoned for animal mutilation.

While living at Undershaw Conan Doyle wrote The Great Boer War. Here was where he wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, resurrecting Sherlock Holmes in The Empty House as well as in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While at Undershaw Conan Doyle wrote a play about Sherlock Holmes which he and William Gillette later revised for Gillette to portray Holmes on stage.

Find out more about this amazing and extremely important cause at:

www.SaveUndershaw.com 

 

 

Special Thanks I feel the need to give for various reasons:

Elena Kitzantides | For being a constant inspiration and brilliant editor.

Sherlockology | For your immense friendship and continued support and all that you do worldwide

Baker Street Babes | The first to touch my book, and a group of epic status

Lynn Gale | For being such a lovely person and all her amazing work with the U.P.T

Mark Gatiss | For sending that tweet that day which caused such a tremendous smile

MX Publishing | For obvious reasons…

Five Book Giveaway When Undershaw’s Lynn Gale Reaches 1,895 Followers on Twitter. Very Close Now!

To enter to win instantly just use the button below to follow Lynn Gale:

Follow @spiritangel04

The Backstory
A couple days ago I posted this to Twitter:

Friends: When @spiritangel04 reaches 1,895 followers I will be randomly choosing 5 of them to receive my new book free. The game is afoot…

— Joe Riggs (@WorldOfJoeRiggs) June 24, 2012

Not long after that Sherlockology posted this:

The lovely @WorldOfJoeRiggs is giving away 5 of his The Real #Sherlock Holmes books when #Undershaw‘s @spiritangel04 reaches 1,895 followers

— Sherlockology (@Sherlockology) June 24, 2012

(The above tweets are not ‘screenshots’ or ‘images’ they are interactive embedded tweets that you can use to retweet, favorite etc…)

[image error]Since then Undershaw’s Lynn Gale (@SpiritAngel04) has gained over 100 new followers and is now 65 followers away from my goal of 1,895. Most everyone with a love for Sherlock Holmes will instantly recognize the importance of the number 1895, or the year 1895 rather.

Lynn Gale is an amazing figure in the Undershaw Preservation Trust and is constantly working to ensure that the former home of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is safe and always there for Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle fans around the world to enjoy.

The home was recently under a serious judicial review and you can learn more about the fight to save Arthur Conan Doyle’s home and the UPT at www.SaveUndershaw.com

So in summary when Lynn Gale reaches 1,895 followers on Twitter I will be choosing five of her followers at random to recieve a free copy of my book “The Real Sherlock Holmes – The Curious History and Mysterious Methods of a True Mental Specialist.”  All you have to do is follow her, that’s it. There is another link below:

Follow @spiritangel04



At the time of this post she was at exactly 1,830 followers.

Wiping Your Memory Palace, Sealing Important Data Permanently & Layering For Incredible Recall

First off I would like to take a minute to thank all of you for your continued support in my work. Last month alone this blog maxed out at around 1.2 million views and my articles are about to be syndicated in some pretty amazing places. Thank you so much, every one of you.

The following article has been one that people seem to have decided upon themselves. I’ve received droves of emails asking one basic question, and a very good one at that. Here is an sample of one such email:

The memories are lasting longer than I thought (just today after going through my house in the real world, I looked at one of my “pegs” and surprisingly enough, the image flashed into my mind, and it was the weirdest one of them. No surprise there though). So that got me thinking, are the memories planted to pegs permanent, or is there some way to clear them, other than stacking newer memories on top?

That said is there a way to erase something from your ‘mental hard drive’ (say something like the fact that the Earth goes around the Sun, for example )? If there is one you should definitely include it in an upcoming post. After all, what use is there to have a memory palace if it can’t be cleaned?

I meant to write this article much sooner however things have been quite busy over here in my world. This topic actually calls to mind a few different subjects that I will try to cover in the following post. If you have not read my first two articles on the Memory or Mind Palace this would be a perfect time to get caught up, they will be referenced lightly in the following. You can find those here:

The Memory Palace – From Sherlock Holmes to Designing Your Own…

Supercharging Your Memory Palace, New Palaces & Connecting the Labyrinths Within…

So without further adieu let us begin.

“I’m your landlady, not your housekeeper.” -Mrs. Hudson

Recycling your Memory Palace

[image error]Ahhh yes this seems to be on the minds of many. There are quite a few reasons that one will run into this problem. Some people run directly into this issue the very second time they decide to use their Palace for the second time. As we learned in creating our Palaces we are to choose very vivid and often nonsensical images to attach to the pegs in our Palaces or Routes. (remember a mind palace can be a home you know by heart or any path or ride that you know without fail)

Creating images in this way as most of you have realized cause you to see them with little to no effort as you take you trips back into your Palace. In fact this is the very point, without this we would not be remembering anything at all. However when it comes time to start committing new lists or data into our palaces those old images popping up can become quite perplexing or problematic. If you are half as O.C. as I am this will indeed drive you mad at first. Fear not as this is very common and can be overcome rather easily. Also to note is that some individuals never have this issue at all, when they need to reuse their Palace it is always brand new and untouched. Either way when you learn to clean and remove items you will be no different than them. It will become second nature to most all of you. The rest it should become rather first nature…

A common pitfall most of us fall into is the notion that the solution to this problem is to just keep expanding your Palace. In my previous article “Supercharging Your Memory Palace…” I outline many ways to expand your palaces and to connect them all together. While this is a great method for  making your Memory Palace much larger and more efficient. It does not and is not a solution for storing new lists and data when you could easily get rid of the current imagery/memories you no longer need in a main room to reuse the room again and again. This is a far more efficient system and I will get back to the benefits of having the larger extended Palaces a bit later when we get to the section on ‘Sealing Important Data Permanently.’

Cleaning/Wiping Your Memory Palace  (The sane way & the crazy way)

Just yesterday I was mentally roaming through the labyrinths of my own Memory Palace and finding places [image error]that were in fact so old and neglected they were just scary. I thought I was in a scene from the film “The Ring.” No one wants that I am sure. If you do then that is a different issue entirely. Back to the subject at hand, cleaning or wiping your Palace. I’ve read many books and articles on this subject as well I’ve spoken in great length to many of the forerunners in this arena. While many of the methods I’ve heard explained sounded interesting enough they just never quite worked in a practical way for myself. I find Occam’s razor to be true: ”other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one.”

This is not unlike our dear friend Sherlock Holmes as he once said “Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.” I have always lived by these words and I strongly feel my success with the Palace has mainly been a result of sheer practice and these two principals. So let’s go on to how to get your Palace in order.

1. Grab A Broom (the sane way, not to be underestimated)

I wish I could say I was joking yet in the same way that the Method Of Loci is in and of itself a visual experience one of the most POWERFUL ways to clean the areas you wish to reuse is to do exactly what you would do to your real place of dwelling. That’s right it’s spring cleaning time. Before you push the tiny ‘X’ at the top right of your screen just wait a minute. Everyone wants to have the super memory so you might want to stick around. Besides this kind of cleaning is infinitely more fun that any real sense of the world. Remember we get to make everything up. You even toss things out the window if you so desire.

[image error]In this scenario you quite frankly close your eyes choose your broom or more likely a high powered vacuume. These are exceptionally useful when dealing with that Giraffe you can’t quite remember why you ever needed to remember in the first place. Sweeping it away with the broom isn’t nearly as holographic an experience as what you would use the vacuume for, as you might imagine. Keep in mind the cleaning process should be as visual as the process of pegging items in the first place.

On a fun note it is important to remember that since this is YOUR Palace and it is YOUR imagination then YOU get to decide your cleaning atmosphere. This can actually be a very powerful step. Do you listen to music when you clean your real house? Well whatever the case may in fact be do this and more in cleaning out your Memory Palace. As in-need-of-therapy an idea this sounds, the experts have become experts for not being afraid to take the Memory Palace as far down the rabbit hole as they possibly can. This will not make things harder it will make them far more useful and thrilling as you begin to realize the implications of what is to come next. Every time you successfully wipe out data you no longer need you are instantly free to memorize an entirely new amount of information.  How efficient do you want your Palace to be? If your answer is extremely, keep reading. Caution this next bit may sound a bit strange but just stay with me, I’ve done this to achieve great ends I promise.

2. Destruction and Chaos (yes the less sane one however far more powerful to some)

Slow down we are not destroying anything here. I just saw in my mind the excitement on far too many faces. [image error]Well OK we are destroying some things in what can be some very imaginative kinds of ways. Let the smiles come back, a little. I can’t say enough that since the Method Of Loci otherwise known as the Memory Palace or Mind Palace is founded upon a visual process or walk that the reverse will be the same, a visual process. Just as well due to the fact that the more nonsensical and ridiculous the images you used to create your pegs just the same would likely apply to the removing of them. The following system is one I have found to be by far the most powerful for myself as well as many others. The possibilities become endless yet I will outline some scenarios for you to formulate your own. (this can also serve as therapeutic to some, just saying)

Armed with weapon of choice walk through your Palace and literally destroy unwanted images/memorized items. I hate to say it but this is extremely effective. I am not condoning violence, if you have stores faces in your Palace, do not remove them in this manner. Nevertheless this can make for a clean sweep of a room or path in your Palace. Make sure to seriously envision the memorized images shattering into nothingness. Note: do NOT destroy the stationary items in your Palace that you use to peg items to. You need to keep these. You are only removing the images you have attached/pegged to them. This would seem obvious yet I feel the need to just put that out there.
Take a more fantastical approach! Sherlockians, Whovians as well as anyone with an over active imagination will excel at this technique. Have you ever fancied magical powers? Yes that would be you too Potterheads. Maybe you’ve wanted the power to make things vanish or disintegrate  like a favorite science fiction movie. Whatever the case may be this is your time to shine. This is by far the method I employ the most and it seriously is extremely effective in getting rid of those no longer needed associations. As a child I often saw myself with a Ghostbusters backpack on and would phaser things out of existence. Remember to never cross beams. (sorry 1980s reference) Whatever the case may be enter your Palace equipped, hit the music if you wish and get rid of those unwanted images once and for all. I do not care how old you are people that are memorizing incredible mathematical equations with the Memory Palace are doing similar things.

Sealing Important Data Permanently – (back to the labyrinths within)

[image error]The need to empty certain rooms and pathways while retaining the ability to seal data you want to access permanently must be equally acquired to have a supercharged Memory Palace. I have the entire contents of books stored away at this point and I certainly do not wish to accidentally wipe these out. Just as well there are a plethora of examples of things you will store into your Palace that you never want to erase. We will be covering that very issue here.

In my second article on the Method Of Loci or Memory Palace entitled “Supercharging Your Memory Palace, New Palaces & Connecting the Labyrinths Within…” you learn many ways to extend your main Memory Palace by adding extensions such as additional rooms, paths to and from places you know by heart as well as how to connect them all together is some rather fun and interesting ways. This ability really starts to shine when you want to separate vital information you want to store permanently from things you will need for short term purposes.

Designation and the right kind of Layering
1. Designation

This one generally speaks for itself however I feel it is important to always be as clear as possible regarding such topics. While the right kind of layering that we will get to in a moment can often be very useful designation is by far the most used technique by myself and others. This is something we all do in some form or anther already in our everyday lives. We love to designate places and rooms for specific things or themes. In the world of the Method of Loci and the Memory Palace designating certain rooms, paths and extensions is a sure fire way to commit endless amounts of data permanently whilst leaving all other areas for cleaning and reusing.

Just as well you can purposely create new paths and extensions on the spot just before having to commit a permanent amount of data away. Again you do this by remapping out a known place or route in your mind as per the previous articles. Let’s move ahead to some examples.

Memory Lane

One of the extensions I added to my Memory Palace early on was the woods behind my house. For years I had explored these woods and made pathways and forts along the way. I never knew how important these would one day become. Years later in school when I wanted to commit to memory the names of all the Sherlock Holmes stories that Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote I went back in my mind and mapped out these old pathways from my childhood memory and made every thing that stands out along the way a memory peg. Then it was an easy matter to later walk back through these paths in my mind and attach the faces of all the Presidents. I still can’t forget them. As you can see here mapping out old routes and places from your memories is one of the most powerful ways to extend your Palace and store things you never want to forget.

Locking the Doors


This is quite frankly designating chosen rooms in your Palace to use for only one purpose, for only one set of data to keep. There are ways of using such rooms and even the paths referred to above to layer and store two or more sets of permanent data yet this can get a bit tricky and will be covered in the following section.  In this technique of locking the doors you will set aside certain rooms within your palace for a particular purpose. Generally you will create as many memory pegs as possible in these rooms. This is because I am assuming when designating one room to store something permanently you will want to be able to use the room to it’s maximum capacity.
To get the most capacity out of a room you are going to seal away and lock for one purpose, the best thing you can do is to create as many memory pegs as possible. That is to say, turn every stationary object in the entire room into a peg. The more things you mentally note and declare as pegs the more data you will be able to store in the room. Plain and simply this is the entire system here. I often like to see myself locking a door after I have successfully stored away the data I wish to keep in that room. I have heard of people making up imaginary keys to associate with those rooms however I’ve always felt to be an extra thing to memorize and not worth my time. Remember Occam’s Razor.

Layering for maximum capacity

 

Layering can be a very useful tool as well as a very misunderstood one. There are many ways to use [image error] layering to maximize the storage ability of your Memory Palace yet this can often become confusing and thrown to the wayside. I will outline what works best for me.

The best way I can explain layering is the adding a second set of permanent data you wish to store on top of a pre-existing set of a data that is permanently filed away. I find free association to be one of the most powerful ways to do this and is very similar to how we store information visually to our pegs in the first place. I will outline a couple examples of this for you to ponder and come up with your own ideas.



Let’s use a room I used to peg every US President then locked away for example.  Well let’s say that I later wanted to memorize all the names of the Sherlock Holmes stories of the Canon. This is actually a true story. By layering all I had to do was go back into that room and form free associations between titles of Holmes stories and former US Presidents. For example you could attach Bill Clinton to A Scandal in Bohemia by finding some way to relate the two in your mind. This actually wouldn’t be very hard if you think about it, i.e. ‘scandal.’ You would want again to make this a visual experience and would then be storing away two sets of permanent data in one room in this way. Pretty cool really.
Likewise let us say that using Phonetic Encoding I have converted every area code in my area to a word and have stored each word onto a stationary peg in a room set aside for this alone. Later if I wanted to reuse this room for another set of data to be committed forever all I would have to do is go back into this room and find ways to attach each piece of new data/imagery to the words that are already attached to the pegs from earlier, not the pegs themselves. This style of layering can be extremely powerful


One last note on layering, it is very possible to link images together with free association by making stories out of them to go on to store multiple layers of permanent data in one room alone. I will leave you with this to think about. I think we have covered quite a lot for now. I look forward to your feedback as always!

My next article “Phonetic Encoding and The Memory Palace” will utilize this and all the methods taught before to take you to the next level in becoming a true memory master. Stay tuned.

-Joe Riggs

By the way, something you might be interesting in:

Friends: When @spiritangel04 reaches 1,895 followers I will be randomly choosing 5 of them to receive my new book free. The game is afoot…

— Joe Riggs (@WorldOfJoeRiggs) June 24, 2012

Benedict Cumberbatch wrote a lovely letter about me…well, kind of…

While searching the internet today, I found a letter written in a clever style. It is a letter written as if it is from Benedict Cumberbatch. The letter talks of my blog and me. It is quite an interesting thing to read; let alone to stumble upon, like I did…

Read the entire ‘letter’ at: http://bit.ly/NVPBki   The following is a preview yet the full letter is quite long and extremely entertaining.

Many thanks for the praise and compliments on Frankenstein. You were absolutely right – I was going to ask you if getting the chance to see it made the long wait for the next season of Sherlock more tolerable.

To better prepare myself for the next time, I’ve been reading up on how to detect deception from the guy called the “real Sherlock Holmes”, Joe Riggs. He states he is an “internationally acclaimed Mentalist, Hypnotist, Lecturer, and Consultant.” Mark Gattiss spoke highly of him and told me to check out his blog when I was lamenting how you have been able to slip by me time and time again. I figured someone who claims to be the “real” Sherlock Holmes might be of some help to me.

On Joe’s blog, one article in particular caught my attention - Mentalist Insight: Fastest Ways to Detect Deception Like Sherlock Holmes. In the article, Joe highlights what he claims are the fastest and most reliable things to spot quickly in a someone you think might be deceiving you….

Thanks Tami Clayton for causing me to be completely flattered and utterly confused at the same time. When I began reading I was completely perplexed for a few moments until I realized what this was. Well done!

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Thanks to you all! So very grateful…

Thank you for all the amazing support these past few weeks!
Working on a something now that should surprise most all of you!
Thank You so much.  -Joe Riggs

One INTENSE Email and the Subject of my 3rd Memory Palace Lesson…

This is a rather touching email I received regarding my articles and work. It is the messages like this that inspire me daily and keep me wanting to share everything I know with the world. Rather than keep my methods and secrets to myself as too many individuals in my profession, as well as related professions, do.

However, it also contains a burning question that I have recieved over two hundred times from around the world via emails, Twitter & Facebook. This question is being answered in one of my favorite articles yet that will be out within the next couple days. The support coming in is overwhelming, Thank you. All of you…

OK, first thing’s first I am truly Joe Riggs-ed after reading your blog posts.

When first meeting, reading about, from, etc someone I always approach them as if they have an IQ of zero, so as to clear away any bias and let them build their own reputation. I did the same with you (no offence, as I said I do this with anybody to see what they truly are). The first thing I read about you was your title “The Real Sherlock Holmes”, “Hmm, I thought. This should be interesting to witness.” Second thing was your blog post about the phonetic encoding of numbers. “30 seconds for such a long number? This guy must be mad (in a good way, of course)!”, after reading on, I thought: “This guy hits the spot dead on!” After only reading that post, I moved you to the top of my most mentally capable (real) people list.

I started wanting to read more and more from you. You have COMPLETELY expanded my views on EVERYTHING. After reading the Memory Palace post and creating my first simple three-peg mental palace, I ran into a difficulty. The memories are way longer lasting than I thought (just today after going through my house in the real world, I looked at one of my “pegs” and surprisingly enough, the image flashed into my mind, and it was the weirdest one of them. No surprise there though). So that got me thinking, are the memories planted to pegs permanent, or is there some way to clear them, other than stacking newer memories on top?

That said is there a way to erase something from your ‘mental hard drive’ (say something like the fact that the Earth goes around the Sun, for example )? If there is one you should definitely include it in an upcoming post. After all, what use is there to have a memory palace if it can’t be cleaned?

I hope you reply, because I’m a huge fan of yours (90% of the time I go in Twitter is to check your posts).

Your faithful follower,

(Name Removed)

Incredible, while it is not my intention to create “faithful followers” I do appreciate these amazing words. It is actually my intention to create more leaders. I can not tell all of you how much emails like this mean to me.

Thank you. -Joe Riggs

“It was worth a wound; it was worth many wounds; to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.” -Dr. Watson