Voices
JOSHUA
FOER
HUFFINGTON
03.31.13
SCIENCE
COURTESY OF TED
The Secret to
Superpower Memory
EARLIER THIS MONTH in New
York City, Ram Kolli defeated the
reigning USA Memory Championship Nelson Dellis to win the
16th annual USA Memory Championship. Readers of my book
Moonwalking with Einstein: The
Art and Science of Remembering
Everything will remember Kolli
as the ‘mental athlete’ I went toeto-toe with when I won that same
contest in 2006.
Here’s the thing: Despite being
U.S. memory champions, Kolli, Dellis and I occasionally misplace our
JOSHUA
FOER
EXPLAINS
“memory
palaces” in
his 2012
TEDTalk.