How to Improve Your Memory, With USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Memory is a strange thing. What is a “memory,” anyway? Where does it live? And where did we put our keys? We’re unlocking the secrets of memory and how to improve ours with a little help from our friends. First, we’ve got staff writer Nick Douglas with a technique that will help you learn anything. Then staff writer Beth Skwarecki explains just how scientists sucked the memory out of one snail and put it in another—and what this means for all of us. Finally, four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis talks to Alice and Melissa about how he went from being a guy with an average memory to a, well, champion. And we play a memory game that listeners can play, as well.
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| 1:10.1 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. |
| 1:12.8 | And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. |
| 1:15.8 | And today we're talking about memory. |
| 1:18.9 | Alice, how do you even talk about memory? |
| 1:21.5 | Right. |
| 1:21.9 | It is ineffable, if you will. |
| 1:25.4 | It engages all of our senses. |
| 1:30.5 | It is so powerful. It exerts such an effect on us, yet it's not something that we can actually, you know, physically hold in our hands. |
| 1:34.9 | It's extremely personal. My experience of memory is much different from your experience of memory. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah. And it's something that's that we think of as being in the past of being like these long-term |
| 1:46.1 | things, but then also it's happening right now because the minute something happens, it's in your |
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