479 Memory Champion Nelson Dellis on Training Your Brain to Do the Impossible
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes
4.8 • 22K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 479 with four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Delis |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur and each week |
| 0:17.7 | We bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness |
| 0:24.7 | Thanks for spending some time with me today now let the class begin |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome to the School of Greatness podcast everyone. I hope you're having a great day and I hope this is going to make your day and life |
| 0:44.5 | Even better because we are in the house with Nelson Delis who is a four-time |
| 0:50.8 | USA Memory Champion and one of the leading memory experts in the world |
| 0:55.8 | He's traveled around the world as a competitive memory athlete memory consultant and highly sought after keynote speaker |
| 1:02.3 | He's the founder and CEO of Climb for Memory a nonprofit charity that aims to raise awareness and |
| 1:08.4 | funds for Alzheimer's disease research through mountain climbs all over the world |
| 1:14.6 | He is also the co-founder of the memory league memory training app and the co-founder director of memory league championships |
| 1:22.2 | The only digital format head-to-head style memory competition. That's right all things memory |
| 1:29.0 | Nelson has been featured in the today show Fox and friends the Katie Kirk show CNN dot com ABC Dr. Ross science channel |
| 1:36.1 | Nat Geo super brain China |
| 1:38.3 | National geographic magazine and many other outlets |
| 1:41.0 | He is one of the top guys kind of like Jim Quick where he just like can teach and memorize so many things the same time and |
| 1:48.0 | What we cover today are how to memorize names at a networking event when you feel like you're horrible at names |
| 1:54.6 | I know that's pretty much like 90% of people listening why memory is a lost art |
| 2:00.6 | Also how Nelson turned his memory work into a business and again if you guys don't think you can run a business or |
| 2:08.0 | Be successful around your passion and making money full-time then this is another great example |
| 2:13.6 | Nelson did this around just memory something he was passionate about again. No excuses here |
| 2:20.1 | Also a simple way to train your brain every single day to be stronger during this interview actually |
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