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Speedcubing, Blindfold Chess, and Memory Training Advice w/ James Cumming

The Craft of Memory Podcast

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Do You Practice or Train?

When I'm trying something like memory sports, which is now a bigger part of my life, and I want to train specifically with the goal of getting better, better, better. The more you can add to an image, great. Don't try to think up, like for instance, if you have two, three-digit numbers in a location,. Just whatever pops in your head first, stick with that, and then try to make it memorable. So over time, all these little bits,If you have a kind of understandable backstory, the images are interacting in some way. And I trust that they'll just be in the memory palace; I don't try to change them or craft

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