{"id":30839,"date":"2018-02-15T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30839"},"modified":"2018-02-15T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:28:13","slug":"nelson-dellis-usa-memory-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/nelson-dellis-usa-memory-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Dellis, USA Memory Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We have hired professional editors to help create our weekly podcasts and video reviews. So far, Cool Tools listeners have pledged $359 a month. Please consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cooltools\">supporting us<\/a>\u00a0on Patreon. We have great rewards for people who contribute! \u2013 MF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our guest this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsondellis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nelson Dellis<\/a>. Nelson is one of the leading memory experts in the world, traveling around the world as a Memory Consultant and Keynote Speaker. A four-time USA Memory Champion, mountaineer, and Alzheimer&#8217;s disease activist, he preaches a lifestyle that combines fitness, both mental and physical, with proper diet and social involvement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/400263804&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/15d4R5dfncGjOItqjoE0wPW15PaOk-k0fZjRJwtDUbiI\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/8285647\/400263804-cool-tools-111-nelson-dellis.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Show notes:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/ghostjacket-242x300.png\" alt=\"ghostjacket\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/ghostjacket-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/ghostjacket.png 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainhardwear.com\/ghost-whisperer-collection\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain Hardware Ghost Whisperer Jacket<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I like to climb, I&#8217;m a big climber, and through my charity I do a bunch of big expeditions. So I\u2019ve been up Everest a few times \u2026 where you\u2019re dealing with the elements, trying to stay warm and not get cold in different circumstances. You&#8217;re trying to find the perfect gear that&#8217;s not too heavy and gets the job done. So I\u2019ve experimented with a bunch of stuff, and in 2016 I was on Everest, and I was introduced to this jacket \u2026 and I haven\u2019t stopped using it since. It\u2019s just this really lightweight kind of down jacket that folds up super small, it&#8217;s super light, and it just has so many different uses. I wear it kind of in between layers, on top of layers, it just stops the wind and just keeps you toasty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/peakanchor-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"peakanchor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/peakanchor-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/peakanchor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/peakanchor.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2Cpyfbi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peak Design Anchor Links for Camera Straps<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I love taking video of when I travel, when I climb, even for some of my memory videos, I&#8217;m shooting them on the go, interviewing people or trying to get a shot while I explain something and sometimes, I like to go really hand-held to get these angles or to just be run and gunning. Other times, I just have to have it\u2019s strapped around my neck and I&#8217;m doing something else, holding something else. So, I kind of go in-between those things and I\u2019ve always hated Canon straps that have these double loops that take like, 10 minutes to sit down and fish them through the little loop and all that stuff and I think the Sony\u2019s DSLRs, which I\u2019ve played with too, have these really annoying kind of clips that make noise if you keep them on, so people take them off \u2026 this little kind of contraption is basically getting rid of you ever having to do that again \u2026 they don\u2019t bother the camera at all, but you can just latch on when you need the strap or not and it\u2019s awesome for dealing with that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artofmemory.com\/wiki\/How_to_Build_a_Memory_Palace\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Memory Palace Technique<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;This technique supposedly was invented by the Greeks thousands of years ago and has been used to memorize massive poems and legions of armies\u2019 fighters names and it\u2019s something people had to use back in the day to store information \u2026 The technique works around something that our brains are really good at, which is one, thinking in pictures. \u2026 The second step is to take advantage of what our brains are also good at, and that is spatial information. We&#8217;re very spatially aware. Our brain is very good at kind of scanning areas and keeping that information within our heads without really trying. And so, if you think about your house for example, close your eyes and picture yourself standing at your front door. I guarantee you, 99.9% of people listening could close their eyes and walk through their whole house without even trouble, right? \u2026 So, if you can take those two things, thinking in pictures and using your house or some place familiar, the spatial information that\u2019s already memorized in your mind, you can actually memorize really large amounts of things, and this is the memory palace \u2026 Let\u2019s say you\u2019re memorizing all 45 presidents \u2026 You would come with a picture for each of the Presidents&#8217; names. So, like, Taft could be a raft, because you&#8217;d actually picture a raft, right? Wilson could be a tennis ball, right? Because you think of Wilson tennis, right? Trump\u2019s face is actually memorable, or you could think of an orange \u2026 So, you have a picture for each of those things and then what you do is you place the pictures in order, because you want to know the presidents in order, around a path through the place that you\u2019re using as your palace. \u2026 So, maybe your picture for Washington is a washing machine filled with a ton of clothes and you picture that washing machine kind of pushed up against the front door and maybe it\u2019s rattling because there\u2019s a ton of stuff in there, it\u2019s really over-loaded and it&#8217;s just shaking, making a lot of scary noises and kind of banging up against the door so much so that maybe even the wooden door is splintering and kind of shattering. So you kind of combine the images and have them interact with the space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/artofmemory-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"artofmemory\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/artofmemory-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/artofmemory-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/02\/artofmemory.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"www.artofmemory.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art of Memory<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;This is something I actually helped create with a few other memory friends and it&#8217;s basically a place to train your memory. I use it to practice, of course. Teach others as well, these techniques. Play memory games online against other memory enthusiasts and you can actually create your memory palaces through our software online \u2026 So, it\u2019s just a great kind of tool. All memory training related. Great resource for learning techniques, practicing them and developing your systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Also mentioned:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climb4memory.org\/take-action-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Climb For Memory<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Tools Show 111: Nelson Dellis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1559],"tags":[1555,1472],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30848,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839\/revisions\/30848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}