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

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The Art of Memory

Our minds love certain kinds of things. We're very, very good at remembering erer things which attract our interest. The art of memory is baseally transforming information which is not interesting into forms of information which are interesting. For a pack of cards, the techni which i am, i use myself am, and which is very popular n the memmy community, is to take each card and then rote associate a person with it. It takes like an afternoon for a normal person to associate with 52 cards, 52 people. And so when you're goig through the cards, you e, you imagine the the people you've associated with the cards instead of the cards. And already

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