The Memory Palace Technique | How I Hacked My Brain

It was when Derren Brown memorized the A-Z map book or the bus timetables (ironically, I can’t remember) on one of his live shows that I instantly knew I wanted to try it.

I scoured the internet with terms like, “how to do that Derren Brown trick” and eventually, after digging myself out of a few dark places, found memory athletes. These are people who can memorize the random order of a deck of cards, a lot of numbers in a row, and other stuff that isn’t useful but I found fascinating.

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