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7: Memory

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind

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The Memory Palace

It's easier to imagine walking around a house with 52 rooms and seeing the cards in each of the rooms, which is the memory palace idea. So it's very, very similar to the zebra in your imaginary hotel room. They've got the cards and they go, right, OK, it's often a little on a high street. And so you imagine a huge Jack of Diamond surrounded by meat in the butcher shop then you do that for all 52. It just sounds like hard work to me.

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