Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer
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Published 2012-05-10
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All Comments (21)
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Who’s here for the Introduction to Psychology online course?? I love it!
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Paul Bloom is the dude!
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This is something they need to train us to do as children. Imagine how much you'd remember if they taught you this while placing all this information in places in classrooms that you become familiar with so you can access it again for the rest of your life?
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Wow, I got assigned this video as a part of an introductory course in psychology. Feeling pretty inspired right now, great points made. And honestly, to all of you complaining that he was vague or didn't talk enough about memory, he got his point across in like 20 minutes. Give him a break.
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Me: Oh great there are subtitles in my mother tongue, it will be easier to understand. Him: I like to invite you to close your eyes. Me: Nani...
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"If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember."
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the last message that he gave to us was so powerful. it reminds us of how we live in a crazy world that doesn't care about anything in front of us because of technology. that was an incredible message that warns everyone
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I came for a class project and walked away with some really deep insight on what I'm doing wrong on a daily basis.
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I'm in my third week of professor blooms class. I have to admit i haven't ever been to college. But i also lost my mom going on five months ago. Rocked me to my core to the point i have focus problems. So I'm taking professor blooms course get myself back in gear again. And it is working, i still have difficulty but it is working. Thank you so much to Yale university and to Coursera, and to professor bloom. I'm so thankful i have found this course. And thank you Joshua, great video.
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I used to do something similar to this in high school; once when we had to memorize Georgia counties and their capitals; one of them for example was Walker and Lafayette. How I remembered it was, Lafayette sounds like Raphael, and Raphael is always walking (Walker) out on the team in TMNT. I certainly wouldn't be able to memorize a deck of cards, though.
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Damn I loved his book, now if i can only remember the damn name of it..
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The best presentation on TED ever. Awesome.
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This was really helpful :) I am creating a series on my own channel about memory palaces, so I've been brushing back up on the processes of creating one. I have a few "new" ideas involved in mine, but I loved this. Good video!
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Thank you for this! I teach psychology 101 (among other things) and the book talks about the Greek "loci" for memory and I never had a good understanding of it in order to teach it, but now I absolutely do and will be showing your talk during that part of class next time I teach it. Thank you! Well said.
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Five minutes in and I realize I've read his book before. It's nice to watch him do this Ted talk
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This is an exceptional TEDtalk. Great speaker, great topic, great delivery. Best of all, after watching, and paying attention, to the whole thing, he made it easy to remember,.....remember the talk, and remember how to encorporate these measures now into my own interactions. Very nice. This is going to go a long way.
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This was so helpful. I had no idea about everything he just talked about. I've always thought having good memory was a feat only a genius can master. This makes me feel better about myself. I have my goal now.
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This talk reminded me of 14 years ago when I was able to remember all the dialogues of Finding Nemo movie. Now I realise how I was able to do so.
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Just finished the book after almost five years of reading it on and off, and I loved it. I wish more people read it.
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This was so helpful.I had no idea about everything he just talked about.I’ve always thought having good memory was a feat only a genius can master.This makes me feel better about myself.And I think Joshua sums it up very well at the end:A good memory enriches our lives and our experiences.
