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From Wired Magazine, this is an online extra for the magazine's Get Smarter package of articles, whose excellent video folks put together a piece of Alexis doing a mental workout with Chester Santos, who won the US Memory Championships this year.

Alexis reports that his memory can be embarrassingly bad, and here Chester helps him learn how to program his brain to remember a list of random words. They used a mnemonic method called the " body list" in which you associate images with parts of your body.

Now, Alexis only had a few words to memorize in this video, and it was the second pass at memorizing it, but he could feel that this memory system was extensible, that he could have piled another twenty words on and kept going.

If you're ready to start really doing some training, check out these links for more information on memorization techniques.

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Ancient Greek bards recited 10,000-line poems by heart. Their secret? The Method of Loci. Here’s how it works: To remember, say, a shopping list, imagine walking to the store. Use items on your list to construct incongruous visual images along the way – a carton of milk perched atop a mailbox, bananas growing on a rosebush, and so on. Then, when you arrive at the store, mentally retrace your imagined steps to retrieve all the items on your list.

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