This hack will help you memorise almost anything | WIRED Explains

Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis explains how he used a Memory Palace to memorise 10,000 digits of pi, the order of more than nine shuffled decks of cards and lists of hundreds of names after only hearing them once.

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[b-sideplank]

I invented this on my own when I was 19 or 20. But just the associated image part. "Storing" the images somewhere makes perfect sense to me!! Wow!

[saymyname]

"I have a photographic need photographs of everything, just to remember them!"

[KGBRoblox]

I met Dr Julia Shaw in 2017 and she gave me her memory book and signed it. I never read it, but I still have it. Once I finish traveling next month, I should start reading it!

[imaginenightmares]

Okay..so what you did, was take something complex that i always had done, never thought of, explain in such a simple way, that it confused me so much so, that i couldn't even get one thought out, until Mr. Dellis descriped his thought process of the houses and map that he used to memorize things, that is where I understood it perfectly and thought to myself: "Well that is actually quiet easy, but takes a lot of energy and time" Because i cannot think in words, all i see are complete detailed images and they cost a lot of energy over the day. The problem with Nelson Dellis and people like me is that we just cannot explain things, that is sadly a treat that most people give it up for it and are better with words than pictures. While i see faces and details, my girlfriend actually cannot, but her memory of numbers, words and others are 10 times better and faster than mine, while i need to produce imagines for them, she doesn't. Instead of seing the numbers, i see a sheet of paper, details and forget the numbers most of the time for the hotel room, while she takes a look and memorizes it until next week.

[letsgrowtogether]

New subscriber. Knowledge gives me a natural beautiful high. Everything one sees or here is not necessarily true, I only love correct knowledge no lies.I'm so grateful.🙏🏿🙏🏽👌🏾Amen 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[fahadshoaib]

Plot twist: he tattooed the numbers under his eye lid

[wabbyshabby]

Just wondering, why would anyone need so much memory ?
Only filling our brain with too much data won't make us go anywhere, right ? Not unless we know, how to potentially utilize them. Is there any way by which I can boost my creativity & imagination with things I already know.

[vheisshu]

Great vids... I am starting my palace now

[carlhull]

I prefer to calculate pi in my head AS I recite it. Memorization seems like cheating!

[DeadTalkLive]

Very interesting clip ♥♥! As a fellow YouTuber, I am on the lookout for new ideas! Good Job!

[XavierGuillaume]

I am kind of confused...how does memorizing that person in an Iron Man suit represent a set of numbers?

[exadoorrising]

What about trying to remember life experiences? I have a huge hole where there should be a decade of memories from childhood, possibly locked away due to trauma. How does one recall these lost memories?

[parthaprateempatra]

More difficult in practice than saying these things.

[davidleary]

How does this help me find my tv remote?

[whendarknessfalls]

Can also use the moon or constellations, but not everyone has a mindseye.

"This is the ritual to lead you on"

[adamberes]

came here from a video about aphantasia - makes this pointless/ quite difficult

[erikgede]

Not applicable to everyone. Lucky of him to be able to do this to himself..

[cathycorcoran]

I am a hoarder and use this method but sometimes when I cant find something my brain actually starts hurting. Atm I cant find a bag of 7 boxes of hair extensions and I'm stuck on two images that won't move on to the next image of where I left them. The more I try to remember the more my head hurts

[sippsowi]

I already forgot what the video was about

[meliss]

You’re out of luck doing this if you have aphantasia I suppose.