Moonwalking with Einstein
Externalized culture of memories
Cannot browse memories, can only find with cues
The brain’ structure can change!
Remember with images, mind map
Memories attached to things like an image (with sound of person’s name for example)
Chunking information together in a way that makes sense
They’re normal people… Chess masters and all the rest, they just improved at a specific pattern recognition.
Different kinds of memory: short and long term + priming
Long term seen as third person
We’ve got memory all wrong, we need to attach it to places! Make it fun etc
Memory is lost when externalized, used to be external helpers only
Reading is for remembering - or at least it was in the past
Good enough plateau - Get feedback, force to go faster
Associative memory
All capable of being savants!
Use mind palace: take well known places and put images in them in memory that correspond to what we want to remember, make it fun!
Feel the world intensely like a child and remember it