Once upon a time this idea of having a trained disciplined cultivated memory was not nearly as alien an idea as it seems to us today. Once upon a time people invested in their memories, in laboriously furnishing their minds.In his address to a TED conference, Foer effectively presents some of the rich .history and tradition of the "memory palace" technique, to which I once elliptically referred while destructively writing in this space, and explains that the key to remembering is
to take information that is lacking in context, in significance, meaning, and transform it in some way so that it becomes meaningful in light of all of the other things that you have in your mind.Here, Joshua Foer presents "Feats of memory anyone can do"
How I elaboratively encode twenty different ten-digit phone numbers into evocative and lurid images populating the piles, passages, and meager furnishings of my squalid digs, though, I still don't know.