598: How to Remember Names, Faces, and Facts like a Memory Champion with Chester Santos
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
U.S. Memory Champion Chester Santos shares his expert tricks and techniques for improving your memory.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why good memory still matters in the digital age
2) The three principles to remembering anything
3) How to remember anyone’s name in four steps
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— ABOUT CHESTER —
U.S. Memory Champion, Chester Santos - "The International Man of Memory" is the world's leading memory skills expert and founder of MemorySchool.NET. His memory building tips have been featured on CNN, ABC, PBS, NBC, CBS, BBC, and the Science Channel. He has been quoted in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, SF Chronicle, Washington Post, and TIME Magazine. Chester has presented in over 30 countries with speaking credits that include TEDx, Talks at Google, and the International Festival of Brilliant Minds.
• Chester’s course: MemorySchool.net. The first 50 listeners to enter the coupon code AWESOME get free access to Chester’s courses!
• Chester’s website: International Man of Memory
• Video: Memory Expert, Chester Santos - "The International Man of Memory" Helps David Pogue on NOVA Science
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Technique: Phonetic Alphabet
• Technique: Major System
• Book: How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Past episode: 474: How to Turn Your Boss, Colleagues, and Customers into Superfans with Pat Flynn
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 598 |
| 0:22.3 | with Chester Santos. |
| 0:23.5 | Have you ever embarrassed yourself because you couldn't quite remember someone's name even |
| 0:28.2 | though you've met them multiple times or some key bits of information that you probably should have on hand. |
| 0:33.4 | Well, our guest Chester Santos is a memory grand master |
| 0:38.1 | and he's gonna help us master our memories. |
| 0:40.8 | You'll learn one, why good memories still matters in the digital age. |
| 0:44.0 | Two, the three principles to remembering anything. |
| 0:47.2 | And three, how to remember anyone's name in just four steps. |
| 0:50.5 | So if we want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:52.8 | items we've referenced, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 598. |
| 0:59.4 | And if you'd like some reinforcement of your memory, |
| 1:02.5 | oh, see what I did there, associated with this episode. |
| 1:04.8 | And every episode that's gone before, |
| 1:06.4 | check out the gold nugget email summaries. |
| 1:08.6 | So if you sign up for that at awesome at your job.com, |
| 1:11.5 | you get an email when each episode goes out. It's about a three minute |
| 1:14.7 | read which highlights the key messages and takeaways and tidbits from the most |
| 1:19.9 | recent guest as well as access to the whole vault of all of these summaries from nearly |
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