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How to Enhance Your Memory (and Never Forget) | Gabriel Wyner

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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Memory Palaces

In 2010 to 2012, I was really digging into memory palaces because they're amazing. Memory palace is a way to completely get past, uh, really all limits. In terms of the human ability to only hold about like five to seven things in your head. The reason you can remember your entire list and your grocery list example is that that orange is not touching the milk. And so you've built these walls between each thing. They never interfere with each other and they're all perfectly filed away. It's a beautiful filing system. Yeah. Building the house scaffolding around memory palace. That what is that called Einstein's house or something like that? Memory path, which is this was

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