How To Remember Everything

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 29 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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0:23.7	Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures.
0:21.8	Talk about genius.
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0:30.5	Look, here's the truth.
0:31.8	Being the U.S. memory champion is very cool in certain respects.
0:36.1	But suddenly, like, I have opened up this Pandora's box of ways to be a schmuck.
0:42.3	Because, like, yeah, I still forget just as much as everybody if I'm not using these techniques.
0:47.3	Only now I'm the US memory champion, and if I don't remember something's name, it's like such an insult.
0:54.8	You're listening to how to. I'm Charles Duhigg.
1:00.1	In class, today, we're starting off with a pop quiz, a little memory test.
1:06.5	So let me ask you a couple of questions. What's your mom's phone number?
1:10.2	727-360-25.
1:14.1	I can't remember the last two numbers.
1:16.3	Okay, but not bad.
1:17.5	Not bad.
1:18.7	Who was president before Jimmy Carter?
1:20.9	Oh, no.
1:22.1	I'm not going to know that.
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