![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I said, well, if anyone can do it, could you teach me? A guy named Ed Cooke, who has one of the best trained memories in the world, took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about memory techniques. Rather, they’d trained their memories using ancient techniques. And they didn’t have photographic memories. But when I talked to the competitors, they told me something really interesting. I went to the event as a science journalist, to cover what I assumed would be the Super Bowl of savants. ![]() Memory Championship is a rather bizarre contest held each spring in New York City, in which people get together to see who can remember the most names of strangers, the most lines of poetry, the most random digits. Memory Championships? How did you become involved? If you try to picture Albert Einstein sliding backwards across a dance floor wearing penny loafers and a diamond glove, that’s pretty much unforgettable. Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable. Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it’s such a goofy image. The title refers to a memory device I used in the US Memory Championship–specifically it’s a mnemonic that helped me memorize a deck of playing cards. First, can you explain the title of your book, MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN? ![]()
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