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RE: Learning with Memory Techniques: The Periodic Table of Elements (1-5)
I've never seen anything like this. I am really curious what music he was listening to. Thanks for this and have a great day!!
I've never seen anything like this. I am really curious what music he was listening to. Thanks for this and have a great day!!
He wasn't listening to any music. That would be very distractive. He used earmuffs to cancel out surrounding sounds. I guess you could say he listened to "The Sound of Silence". ;)
By the way: Many of my US collegues participate in the wekly Superhuman show on Fox. They show off their memory skills there. Check it out.
OK interesting. I see. Thanks for this. Are you also involved in this sport?
I competed at 15 championships myself and I organize the US Open and Memo Games. I am also an international arbiter and founder of memory-sports.com the first website enitirely decdicated to the sport. And in my company I work with Johannes Mallow, world memory champion from 2012.
Incredible. This is really cool. You must be world famous. I have a great medium to long term memory. But it appears to me to be quite selective. Maybe because of past trauma, I don't know. I have not had a very traumatic life.
Your website is really cool. I noticed in addition to the news and statistics, it also offers training. Does this type of training help people avoid cognitive degeneration, even things like Alzheimer's? Just curious. I heard somewhere I think that some people do Sudoku for that purpose.
But this is different. Not sure if Sudoku has much to do with memory.
I read the interview with Lance Tschirhart. I like how he seems like just a regular person. On the one photo he wears shorts.
This is a cool quote by him: "Being on a plateau doesn’t mean that you can no longer improve. Break the discipline down into its smallest parts and find a place where you can improve." I guess I have kind of implemented that approach in my translation business lately.
Amazing to me how it is a totally different world with its own lingo like locus, and matrices, and binaries - which probably I assume have a pretty specific meaning in this context.
O yeah I think I noticed that guy who broke the 52 card record in the back of one of the images - You sent me the video of when he broke the record. I asked about the music on his earphones. You said he didn't listen to any music on the earphones. See, that's my medium term memory.
Just as an aside, I would like to get sounds muffling earphones/muffs like that. They will help me concentrate when I do my freelance work in coffee shops like Starbucks. Otherwise I tune into other people's conversations. They talk about their families, kids, grandkids, husbands, and other things. Often negative vibes.
I bought some over-the-ear ones. Not sure what the right terminology is. They were cheap ones though. You know as opposed to little ones you put inside your ear. But they did not do the trick AT ALL. The difference in ambient noise is negligible. So using my old ones again.
This post is starting to sound like a @jerrybanfield post. Without the long long sentences. You know him? I love Jerry especially his videos when he seems to jump up and down from excitement.
I often complain to my acquaintances about how the school system (in South Africa at least) is very much based on rote learning and memorizing stuff. I feel it should be more geared towards teaching students how to think critically. But reading this interview has opened my eyes at least a little to the benefits of improved memory, like Lance says, even for Law and Medicine.
Thanks again for the awesome post and this conversation. Have a WONDERFUL day. Following you.
PS: Is there an international body that oversees the competitions? Just wondering how I could potentially get involved here in South Africa.
Thank you for the nice words.
Memory training has a similar effect like Sudokus on neuro degenerative deseases. They keep the mind active and prolong the process. You can by these earmuffs in all variations on Amazon. They have different amounts of db absorption.
There are two competing organisations:
The founders (and abusers) of memory sports, the World Memory Sports Council (Tony Buzan, Ray Keene, Dominic O'Brien)
And the International Association of Memory (IAM) which founded last year by basically all Western and Asian countries except China and North Africa. In South Africa there are now events yet but the IAM would surely support you when you would want to organize one.
Thanks for the info! Have a wonderful day!