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Mental real estate is a way of describing the availability and set of memories in one's mind, and how certain activities, inputs and preoccupations influence the space in one's mind.  
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Mental real estate is a way of describing the amount of space one has in one's mind, and how much of it is taken up by one idea-set, brand, or other preoccupation.<ref>Rossio, Terry. Mental Real Estate. Screenwriting Column 42. Wordplay Columns. Accessed 22 Sept 2012. http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp42.Mental.Real.Estate.html</ref> It could be used to describe the availability of space in one's mind, and how certain activities, inputs and preoccupations influence the space in one's mind.  
  
For instance, the images that come to the average modern mind when one thinks a tropical island are mot likely those of a travel brochure, an online image or the travel channel than they are likely to be from an actual experience. The more real estate a product takes up in a shopping aisle, the more mental real estate it will occupy in our minds. Brands and brand recognition constantly fight over mental real estate in this way. Television or media, like a film’s rapid frames, intoxicate the user, leaving no time is left for the viewer to process or critically analyze what has just occurred.
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Brands wage wars over mental real estate. The mental real estate that one has when the word "tissue" is mentioned is taken by "Kleenex" over "Puffs". Mental real estate of consumers of brands is the highest commodity. Mental real estate is the most valuable real estate in the world.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It is the life or death of a brand. Sometimes, whatever gets into a person's mind first is fixed in place and very difficult to remove by a later memory.
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Dunbar's Number is a good way of describing how many concurrent friends you can actually have. On Facebook, neuroplasticity -- it seems like it's an augmentation in training, where you can feel you care about 500 people in tandem, but one's brain can only reasonable interact with a number closer to 150<ref>Hernando, A.; Villuendas, D.; Vesperinas, C.; Abad, M.; Plastino, A. "Unravelling the size distribution of social groups with information theory on complex networks". 2009.</ref> that really these other people in real life have fallen off the map otherwise.  
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Latest revision as of 05:34, 23 September 2012

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Definition

Mental real estate is a way of describing the amount of space one has in one's mind, and how much of it is taken up by one idea-set, brand, or other preoccupation.[1] It could be used to describe the availability of space in one's mind, and how certain activities, inputs and preoccupations influence the space in one's mind.

Brands wage wars over mental real estate. The mental real estate that one has when the word "tissue" is mentioned is taken by "Kleenex" over "Puffs". Mental real estate of consumers of brands is the highest commodity. Mental real estate is the most valuable real estate in the world.[2] It is the life or death of a brand. Sometimes, whatever gets into a person's mind first is fixed in place and very difficult to remove by a later memory.

Dunbar's Number is a good way of describing how many concurrent friends you can actually have. On Facebook, neuroplasticity -- it seems like it's an augmentation in training, where you can feel you care about 500 people in tandem, but one's brain can only reasonable interact with a number closer to 150[3] that really these other people in real life have fallen off the map otherwise.

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  1. Rossio, Terry. Mental Real Estate. Screenwriting Column 42. Wordplay Columns. Accessed 22 Sept 2012. http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp42.Mental.Real.Estate.html
  2. Ibid.
  3. Hernando, A.; Villuendas, D.; Vesperinas, C.; Abad, M.; Plastino, A. "Unravelling the size distribution of social groups with information theory on complex networks". 2009.