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

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Imagination Is a Powerful Tool

Our capacity to form images just while talking is already extraordinarily potent. The thing which confuses people, isa, how can you possibly form an image in a second which you then end up remembering five minutes later? And the example i like to give is that that's what happens in conversation the entire time. In about 15 seconds, im going to describe to you the sequence of objects i'm going to see. So let's say that i am abay. Name the amusing character, tohim mus mortimer. Mortimer kis, i'm mortimer a and i'm yattering into a laptop. N i take the bttle of wine right by me, and i fling

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