Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)
What happened
About three years ago, I memorized the first one hundred digits of pi. I did it on a lark, after reading Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein . The book’s central claim is that nearly anyone can achieve seemingly super-human feats of memory with proper technique and deliberate practice. Intrigued, I put the some of the techniques to the test and found that they worked surprisingly well. But they did not just work…
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