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Improve Your Memory with Memorise
16:29 - 21:46 (05:17)
Memorise is a course that helps people make associations between things and build a vocabulary of ways to think about them so that they can become more memorable. One rule of thumb is that if something can grab your attention while walking down the street, it will also be memorable.
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Memrise launched a competition with Tim Ferriss, offering a $10,000 prize to anyone who could memorize a deck of cards faster than Ed Cooke.
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Summary
Memrise launched a competition with Tim Ferriss, offering a $10,000 prize to anyone who could memorize a deck of cards faster than Ed Cooke. Cooke believes that the most effective way to memorize is to associate each card in the deck with a person to make it more memorable.
ChapterImprove Your Memory with Memorise
EpisodeEp 52: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory, on Mental Performance, Imagination, and Productive Mischief
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The things that grab our attention are the same things that stick in our memory.
17:51 - 19:26 (01:34)
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The things that grab our attention are the same things that stick in our memory. Emotion-grabbing, vivid experiences are more memorable than dull and unremarkable ones.
ChapterImprove Your Memory with Memorise
EpisodeEp 52: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory, on Mental Performance, Imagination, and Productive Mischief
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Memorization technique involves associating cards with people followed by creating a story around it, thus making the bland sequence interesting, amusing, and most importantly, easy to remember.
19:26 - 21:46 (02:20)
Summary
Memorization technique involves associating cards with people followed by creating a story around it, thus making the bland sequence interesting, amusing, and most importantly, easy to remember.