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

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The Power of Memory Palaces

Every memory champion in the world uses memory palaces. Once you've got a hook and linked it to a physical place, that's the way the brain naturally works. So if you sing information at physical locations with wild stories and act it all out because muscle memory and dance, that also helps. You are putting together the most sophisticated memory system for the human brain. That's why they're called song lines. These huge tracks through the landscape, the annual people, they've mapped 800 kilometers of it. In their brains, they can travel 800 kilometers, location by location, information stored at each one,. which they can sing and perform. It's astounding. And every indigenous culture does it

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