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Ep 52: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory, on Mental Performance, Imagination, and Productive Mischief

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I'm Having a Bit of Recency Primacy Here

Mortimer's memory skills draw from quite fundamental cognitive capacities. He can do thes thins called memory walks, where he imagines real things happening in space and time. These sort of memory technicues draw from quite basic cognitive capacities. And you can wander roud ad with no prior training, whatever you can sort of unlock is too strong a word,. You can just er, make use of the fairly phenomenal underlying, kind of cognitive capacities that you have at your disposal all the time.

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