Ep. 1386: Nelson Dellis Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Nelson Dellis. He is a memory athlete and consultant. Nelson is a six-time USA Memory Champion, holding the record for most wins of the national memory champion title. Nelson also runs Climb 4 Memory, a nonprofit which aims to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer's disease research through mountain climbs around the world.
The topic is his book Everyday Genius: Hacks to Boost Your Memory, Focus, Problem-Solving, and Much More.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Memory techniques as systems and frameworks
- Pygmalion effect and belief shaping performance
- Memory as foundation for faster learning and creativity
- Training the brain like a muscle and preventing cognitive decline
- Name memorization using visualization and association
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today brings an issue that all of us need and for sure need to improve. |
| 0:09.5 | Nelson Dulles, his book, Everyday Genius, Hacks to boost your memory, focus, problem solving, |
| 0:17.7 | and much more. |
| 0:19.5 | He is a six-time USA Memory Champion. Now, you might be saying to yourself, |
| 0:25.3 | what is that? Nelson has the ability, and we talk about this, to memorize 10,000 numbers. And at first, |
| 0:34.1 | maybe the same way you might think of a magician if you learn their trick, you say to |
| 0:39.1 | yourself, how do you do that? |
| 0:40.8 | But there's systems. |
| 0:42.5 | There are rules. |
| 0:43.9 | There are techniques. |
| 0:45.0 | There are ways he does this. |
| 0:47.8 | Fascinating that he's gone down this life path. |
| 0:51.0 | Without any further delay from me, let's jump right into my guest today, Nelson Dulles. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm sure what I'm going to tell you is not necessarily unique, but it'll tell me you |
| 1:13.2 | use something about me. |
| 1:15.1 | Completely B student. |
| 1:16.9 | As the author of eight books, my English grades were absolutely abysmal. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm sure absolutely no teachers expected me to write a book in any way, shape, or form. |
| 1:26.2 | I do recall growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, in Virginia, it was becoming all the rage |
| 1:32.2 | in my youth to grade or test the IQ of kids. And so I had two younger siblings. From what |
| 1:41.0 | I understand, I don't know the marks, but from what I understand, one tested higher and one |
| 1:45.8 | tested lower than me. And so the one that tested higher ended up getting slotted into the GT |
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