Huffington Magazine Issue 42 | Page 31

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.