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Erika Taught Me

Improve Your Memory and Life with World-Champion Memory Athlete Yanjaa Wintersoul

Erika Taught Me

Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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#14: Yanjaa Wintersoul teaches me her secrets to becoming a triple-world-record-holding memory athlete and polyglot. Learn how to improve your memory and your life with these memorization techniques so you’ll ace every exam, learn any language and even improve your work performance. Check out more from Yanjaa here. To apply for the Senior Podcast Producer position at Erika Taught Me: https://erikakullberg.com/producer-application Special thanks to our partners: Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Aura - erikataughtme.com/aura Bilt Rewards - erikataughtme.com/bilt Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified. Prefer video or want closed captions?⁠ Watch this episode on YouTube. Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erikakullberg.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast especially since we’re just getting started. Even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. ⁠Connect with me on Instagram.⁠ For more information, go to⁠ https://www.erikataughtme.com/⁠. Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erikakullberg.com/3DMoney Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erikakullberg.com/MasteringYT ⁠Get more of my free resources.⁠

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0:00.0

So I did not discover I had this talent. I always say memory is something that you have to be

0:04.4

trained on. Like obviously some people we have like innate abilities to do like names and faces

0:10.2

or numbers or something else. A lot of memory training is like sleeping enough and eating well.

0:15.3

And I know it sounds super boring, but you don't have to like practice three to four hours a day.

0:20.7

You can do like 20 minutes a day and it's enough, but as long as you sleep enough. And I can

0:25.8

talk about this all day, it's there's so many negative things that happen when you're

0:29.5

sleep deprived. You're like more short tempered with your friends or family. There are so many

0:34.3

small cognitive mistakes that you make. And no one believes me when I say like, what if I told

0:38.7

you you could rest more and study less in high school or college? And it just sounds really

0:44.3

antithetical to like our society's values to say, if you rest more, you're going to learn more.

0:49.2

But it's true. If you rest more, you're going to learn more.

0:52.0

Yonja is a triple world record holding memory athlete and went from only just passing high school

0:59.2

to becoming one of the 22 international grandmasters of memory. Today, Yonja and I talk about the art

1:05.6

of memory training, her secret for sharpening her memory, and the one thing that drastically

1:11.6

affects your memory. I'm Erica Colberg. This is Erica taught me and today we're here with Yonja

1:18.1

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1:24.0

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1:30.4

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1:36.8

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1:42.9

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1:49.8

All you need to do is open an account and deposit any amount, even a dollar to claim your free

1:55.9

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