The memory palace technique takes advantage of the fact that our brains remember visual spatial sensory and emotional information incredibly well were going to use this to force our minds to remember any piece of information we want the technique is as follows 1. How the memory palace technique evolved the origin of the memory palace technique was traced to ancient greece as mentioned earlier in the olden days people had higher incentives to create effective methods of retaining information writing and writing materials were difficult to access. A mind palace originally referred to as the method of loci is a memory device used to commit a large amount of information to memory by combining visual and spatial memory loci is latin for places and the ancient greeks are credited for creating this method