Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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“Everything we learn is permanently stored in the mind, although sometimes particular details are not accessible. With hypnosis, or other special techniques,
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these inaccessible details could eventually be recovered.”
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Bill Clinton is supposed to never forget a name and, well, look where that got him.
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“It is always to associate the sound of a person’s name with something you can clearly imagine. It’s all about creating a vivid image in your mind that anchors your visual memory of the person’s face to a visual memory connected to the person’s name.
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We can only think about roughly seven things at a time.
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Chunking is a way to decrease the number of items you have to remember by increasing the size of each item.
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take meaningless bits of information, run them through a filter that applied meaning to them, and make that information much stickier.