2025 Q2 Weekly Book Blog #2
3:03PM-3:14PM: #11mins
LongWharf
Aim: 7 minutes
4/11/25
April
500words
[[Site Blog]]
[[Memory Books]]
[[Journey Method]]
[[Memory Palace]]
[[Love of Discovering]]
[[Aim For Clarity]]
It’s important that I mention that I am super excited right now, and I am specifically excited because I am reading a book by [[Sanjay Gupta]], who I followed back in the past in CNN, and [[Nelsin Delis]], called [[Remember It]], about memory techniques and implementations of these memory techniques. In the past I have read [[Joshua Foer]]’s book [[Moonwalking with Einstein]], and that was super awesome. At that time, I didn’t have much motivation, to actually implement any of the memory strategies that was in the book. But nowadays, after a lot of time of digestion, and with the help of ChatGPT, reading the book, [[Remember It]], I genuinely think I will be able to implement the memory techniques that I am learning. I love how we can manipulate our memory, with the right approach.
The Memory Palace, or also called, the Journey Method, is such an amazing phenomenon. We actually have neurons, that activate, when we try to recall things in specific locations. We have vivid memories of places that we habituate, on a regular basis. Every place that we have ever inhabited, and we go back to that place, we have a vivid memory of interacting with that space. And because of that, we can actually create vivid images in those spaces in our mental mind. And if we can actually create appropriate images in our habituated places, and create a memory palace, or a journey through that space, that is familiar to us, we can actually remember a lot of things super easily. [[Joshua Foer]], and [[Nelsin Delis]], they pretty much use the same method, and they have became memory champions.
And memory championships are legit a thing, that actually exist, and it’s not composed of people who are super humans, but actually people who just train themselves, just like when you’re training yourself in the gym, they train their mind, so they can remember things super babying fast. And that is super amazing to the max. And I love that, I can actually recognize all this, and I know we can do so many cool things, if we can appropriately use our memory, and actually, see, link, and create images, so we can actually remember things super fast. And I am super excited to be continuing [[Remember It]] by [[Nelsin Delis]] and [[Sanjay Gupta]], and I wish to share more of this, as I move forward on this site.
One of the reasons why I am writing on this website, is because, I do always become super excited when I encounter books like this. And I have read a lot of books in my life, because I can really focus on Audiobooks, while I do other stuff. And one of the reasons why I am able to listen to audiobooks is because I have an inventory of, around let’s say 20 books, at all times, that I can read. And I read whatever fits the mood. And as a result, I can nowadays comprehend and retain complicated books, that in the past would have been impossible. And because of ChatGPT, when I am listening to certain books, I narrow down the focus to core themes and terms that the books are talking about. And that helps me retain the ideas of the books even more.