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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Memory Palace Revisited (with Nelson Dellis)

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Stroll into the memory palace, an imagined location that just might expand your brain power. In this classic episode you'll learn all about the Method of Loci, a mnemonic device that allows mental athletes to perform astounding acts of recall. Plus, in th

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1:32.0

Welcome to Stuffed Of Glow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com

1:39.0

Hey, you're welcome to Stuffed Of Glow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick.

1:49.0

Joe and I recently had the chance to talk with Nelson Delis. He is a memory champion. A memory athlete, as he might say.

1:57.0

Yes, someone even say a mental athlete. Though when we chatted with him, he did mention he doesn't like to use that terminology because he goes out to the UK.

2:06.0

That makes him sound like he's got a problem. But no, this guy is one of the leading memory athletes in the world.

2:15.0

He uses the method of low-key, the memory palace, which is fabulous device that allows you to use spatial memory to catalog at times just obscure facts or even just useless data.

2:30.0

It's really one of the great mental technologies that I've ever encountered. I haven't used it much, but I think it's very interesting, and I'd like to give it an exploration sometime soon.

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