How to Remember Anything

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Memory is a skill you can learn -- and a powerful strategy every workplace can harness. This episode is made possible with the support of Accenture, Bonobos, Hilton, and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	2016 was supposed to be a good year in the NFL for the Rams.
0:15.5	They were relocating back from St. Louis to Los Angeles, a fresh start, a new home.
0:21.6	But they only won four games and lost 12.
0:25.2	They stank.
0:26.8	And they hadn't had a winning season in 14 years.
0:30.8	But the next year, 2017, things were different.
0:46.0	The following season, the Rams win 13 out of 16 games, tying for the best record in football.
0:52.1	They make it all the way to the Super Bowl.
0:54.3	Their secret weapon?
0:55.8	The Rams had hired a new head coach, Sean McVeigh.
0:59.2	He was just 30 years old.
1:00.9	The youngest NFL coach since 1938.
1:04.9	His secret weapon?
1:06.3	His memory.
1:07.3	We saw you on television and you remember a ton of plays.
1:11.3	Sean McVeigh can recall on command almost any moment he's ever seen on a football field.
1:17.1	Listen to him being grilled by a couple sports reporters about completely random plays
1:21.2	from past seasons.
1:22.6	Week 12, Saints at Rams.
1:25.7	Four 29 in the second quarter.
1:28.1	Second and seven on the Saints 7.
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