How To Easily Recall Large Amounts of Information

Joshua Foer demonstrates a visual technique for being able to easily memorize and recall large amounts of information such as the first 100 digits of Pi.

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  1. “easy”. You just have to first memorize a mapping between numbers and letters, then make up a word from the numbers and remember that (and which letters in that word are significant) and THEN remember a story/picture that includes that word. Easy!

    ;)

  2. Thorin…exactly what I was thinking! lol

  3. this confused me more than the idea of remembering a hundred digit number.