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the art of tricking a brain built for survival into holding onto the periodic table.
means deliberately encoding information into memory through repetition or technique, so it can be recalled without looking it up.
from from latin memoria, memory itself — but the real origin is ancient greek orators using the memory palace, since before writing was common, a trained mind was the only backup drive you had.
greek trickmethod of loci uses imagined rooms to store facts
forgetting curveebbinghaus showed we lose 70 percent within a day
spacing beats crammingspaced repetition outperforms marathon study sessions, proven repeatedly
memory athletescan memorize a shuffled card deck in under 20 seconds
for instance
pi to 70000 digits — rajveer meena recited it in india, 2015
medical school gross anatomy — students memorize thousands of structures in one semester
world memory championships — competitors memorize decks, names, and digits under timed pressure