Memorize Pi to 20 Decimals in Just 2 Minutes!
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“The general idea with most memory techniques is to change whatever boring thing is being input into your memory into something that is so colourful, so exciting, and so different from anything you’ve seen before that you can’t possibly forget it” — Ed Cooke
Moonwalking With Einstein — Joshua Foer
Step 1
Select a picture to represent each number, one that personally connects with you. Here’s mine as an example.:
Step 2
Craft an exciting narrative filled with thrilling action and intense drama, similar to the one you provided. (Add a dollops of cheekiness!)
Three Wickets(3) are chanting Om(1) in a bar (4) that has a Om (1) flashing on screen.
Pancham (5) is also there as he plays Bowling Pins (9) with the Twins (2) and a Eunuch (6).
Pancham (5) hits the twins (3) five times (5).
Saturn(8) rolls towards Bowling Pins (9) sitting on a Sun’s Chariot (7).
Bowling Pins (9) hit Wickets (3).
The twins (2) take the fallen Wickets (3) and hit Saturn (8) hard as it flies away.
Bar (4) is empty now and Eunuch (6) dances noiselessly.
“…Memory is primarily an imaginative process. In fact, learning , memory and creativity are the same fundamental process directed with a different focus.
The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images and link disparate ideas...” — Tony Buzan
Moonwalking With Einstein — Joshua Foer
Bonus — How to remember a 10 digit mobile number (say 9132765048) using the above technique.
