memory, should be there. >> i wanted to try it myself. so we found a physical representation of a memory palace. the swan house here in atlanta, built in 1928, this grand home has been beautifully preserved. you might recognize it from movies like the hunger games. >> is this a pretty good place for the memory palace. >> this is the perfect memory palace because it's got so many different things of interest you can attach things to. >> so let's do presidents. the. >> okay. >> sort of in the middle. >> yup. so what we need to do before we start memorizing is kind of choose our path or kind of things we're going to anchor the images to. so when i walk through these memory palaces i thinks called anchor points or locations. that's where you imagine the image. pieces of furniture, corners of rooms, whatever. we're here at this first location and we're going to start with the 25th president.