“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose,” Sherlock Holmes famously remarked. In this lesson, Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes, teaches you how to optimize memory, Holmes style. The goal is to expand one’s limited “brain attic,” so that what used to be a small space can suddenly become much larger because we are using the space more efficiently.A key concept here is that the details and observations we select to include in our brain attic shape and filter our perception of reality. So you need to get to know the content and structure of your own mind if you want to learn to store objective facts rather than subjective interpretations of fact. And to maximize efficiency, you’ll need to strengthen your encoding skills for better recall of stored information.Get to know the content and structure of your mindThe content of your brain attic is defined b...