How To Remember Everything
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Jessica is only 26, but says her memory is 'worse than my mother's.' She forgets friends' birthdays, important details at work and worries that life is passing her by. In this episode of How To!, we bring in Joshua Foer, a former U.S.A. Memory Champion who wrote Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, to help Jessica train her brain. Josh says you don't have to be a memory champion to have a superhuman ability to remember — you just have to pay attention and let your imagination run wild (the raunchier the better).
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the truth. |
| 0:02.0 | Being the U.S. Memory Champion is very cool in certain respects, but suddenly, like, I have opened |
| 0:09.2 | up this Pandora's box of ways to be a schmuck because yeah I still forget just as much as everybody |
| 0:16.3 | if I'm not using these techniques only now I'm the US memory champion and I don't remember |
| 0:20.3 | some of the name it like such an insult. |
| 0:23.0 | You're listening to how to. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Charles Doohick. |
| 0:28.0 | In class, today we're starting off with a pop quiz, a little memory test. |
| 0:36.6 | So let me ask you a couple of questions. |
| 0:38.5 | What's your mom's phone number? |
| 0:40.5 | 727-360-25. I can't remember the last two numbers. |
| 0:45.6 | Okay, but not bad, not bad. |
| 0:48.8 | Who was president before Jimmy Carter? |
| 0:50.9 | Oh no. I'm not going to know that. Did you ever know that or is that something that like you ever knew that? |
| 0:57.6 | I'm that's embarrassing because I am a political science feature. It was Gerald Ford. |
| 1:03.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:04.3 | Let me ask you this. |
| 1:05.4 | What did you do last Wednesday night? |
| 1:07.5 | Last Wednesday night. |
| 1:09.7 | Hmm. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:18.0 | This is Jessica from St. Petersburg, Florida. And right now, she's flunking this quiz, because Jessica has a really hard time remembering things. |
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