Ep. 381: Ben Whately Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ben Whately, a serial entrepreneur and education innovator. While studying Experimental Psychology at Oxford, Ben became fascinated by the ways that our brains learn. After graduating, he moved to Qiqihaer, a remote city in northern China. He is a memory expert and Memrise co-founder.
The topic is memory.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Memory, a composite of previously formed memories
- How memories are encoded in the brain
- To the brain, remembering equals imagining
- How the most effective way to teach is to be entertaining
- Technology, and how it affects our views on memory
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 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.7 | My guest today has been Waitley, one of the founders of a company called Memrise. |
| 0:39.2 | You might have already guessed that this conversation will have something to do with memory. |
| 0:45.6 | Ben is absolutely a memory expert and brings insights on how we can all improve our memory. |
| 0:54.7 | There are definite techniques. There are tips. There our memory. There are definite techniques. |
| 0:56.5 | There are tips. |
| 0:57.3 | There are tricks. |
| 0:58.1 | There are concepts. |
| 0:58.9 | There are ideas. |
| 1:00.1 | There are philosophies and understandings about memory beyond how we have typically learned |
| 1:08.3 | in school. |
| 1:09.6 | The rope memorization doesn't really work. |
| 1:14.1 | There are better ways. |
| 1:16.4 | I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Ben Waitley as we discuss those better ways |
| 1:21.6 | toward improved memory performance. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you. improved memory performance. So I am currently in Asia, have spent the better part here of the last three years. |
| 1:41.3 | Whereabouts? |
| 1:41.9 | Significant part of the time in Saigon, which is where I'm calling you from today. |
| 1:46.3 | My language skills are about zilch. |
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