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Monday, 30 October 2006

If the Yale thingy wasn't cool enough, now there's this, and I'm jazzed:

Thanks to the discussion of memory techniques in Prisoner of Trebekistan, I've just been invited to speak to a cognitive science class at UCLA.

Neat!

When I was a kid, I was always told what to learn, but rarely how. Some of the stuff in Trebekistan, particularly around chapter nine, has a lot of the how and even some of the why and when.

One of the reasons I wrote the book is that I dearly want everybody to know how to remember stuff better. Learning how has made a big difference in my life. (Although if you saw me blow a big Final clue in last year's Ultimate Tournament of Champions, you know it hasn't been quite as much as I'd like.) The stuff I found out might help you or your family, too. Hope so.