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E23 Dr. Lynne Kelly: How To Supercharge Your Memory Like Indigenous Cultures

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The Memory Palace and Native Cultures

indigenous cultures had such incredible memories because they understood what makes something memorable. They combined all of that in what you just described as like a song line to make something incredibly, incredibly memorable. With the Greeks and Romans, they will have been using what had happened before, but with literacy, they were then writing some stuff down. So there's one report done by the Navajo of over 700 insects, just insects, all recorded and recorded in their song and mythology. It was all still stored because it's information, just like we love information.

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