363: Improve Your Memory with Nelson Dellis
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
I used to say, “I’m bad with names!” It wasn’t until my late 30s that I realized this was just an excuse for not learning how to remember names. Turns out, it’s not that hard. I’m not amazing, but I’m now pretty good and getting better all the time. My big secret? I put some effort into it.
My guest on this week’s show is a four-time USA memory champion. Here is a short list of his accomplishments:
- Memorized 217 names in 15 minutes
- Memorized 256 words in 15 minutes
- Memorized 907 digits in 30 minutes
- Memorized a deck of cards in < 41 seconds
Memory skills are more than party tricks. It is a way to train and harness the power of your mind through specific techniques that can spill over with benefits into every aspect of your life. This is a fun one.
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Nelson Dellis is a 4x USA Memory Champion and one of the leading memory experts in the world. He is a competitive memory athlete, memory consultant, published author, and keynote speaker. As a memory champion, mountaineer, and Alzheimer's disease activist, he preaches a lifestyle that combines fitness— both mental and physical—with proper diet and social involvement. He is the author of the book, Remember It!, and he founded a non-profit charity that aims to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's. He has climbed numerous peaks around the world for this cause, including three times on Mount Everest.
Nelson has been featured on FOX's Superhumans, The TODAY Show, Fox and Friends, The Katie Couric Show, CNN.com, ABC Nightline, The Dr. Oz Show, The Science Channel, National Geographic, and SuperBrain China, among many other media outlets.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood Show. I am your host. I am a yoga teacher. I'm a trainer. |
| 0:04.8 | Nutritional coach, a serial entrepreneur. I'm a father. But first and foremost, I am a student. |
| 0:10.0 | I love learning. This show is about scratching my own itch I go into the world find medical |
| 0:14.8 | doctors yoga teachers authors experts researchers people doing interesting things and I share their |
| 0:19.3 | best research their best teachings with you to hopefully help you live a better life. |
| 0:24.7 | On this week's show we're talking about memory, we're talking about cognition. |
| 0:29.1 | Most people I speak to when they talk about aging and getting on in their years they're most worried |
| 0:34.5 | about the engine under the hood, their brain slowing down. |
| 0:39.2 | When it takes a couple of extra seconds to remember the name of your |
| 0:43.3 | seconds to remember the name of your colleague |
| 0:43.3 | when you're doing some simple math equations |
| 0:45.8 | at the grocery store |
| 0:46.6 | and you can't seem to figure out |
| 0:48.8 | how much change should be left over |
| 0:50.6 | if something costs 57 cents. These kinds of senior moments as they're often |
| 0:54.4 | called are something that all of us of course want to avoid. We've spoken to many people on |
| 0:58.9 | this show about how diet and lifestyle can really influence your brain health, your neurological health, but we haven't |
| 1:06.0 | chat a lot about just the simple practice of using your brain, exercising that mental muscle. |
| 1:11.9 | On this week's show we'll be chatting with a memory expert, a world champion can count cards, |
| 1:15.6 | can memorize a couple hundred names in one go. |
| 1:18.1 | He climbed Mount Everest a bunch of times. |
| 1:20.2 | He's got an Alzheimer's nonprofit is a really dynamic, unique individual. |
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