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Nelson Dellis
December 20, 2022 at 7:35 pm
Thanks WIRED for having me on this episode! Enjoy!
Camila Gonzales
December 20, 2022 at 10:22 pm
Why the headphones?? I looved this episode btw😊
ViliamF
December 20, 2022 at 11:09 pm
@Camila Gonzales Either noise cancelling or simply sound isolating, to remove distractions for better concentration.
Infinite Monkey
December 20, 2022 at 11:33 pm
Do people attempt to enhance themselves with nootropic drugs at memory competitions ?
Nelson Dellis
December 21, 2022 at 12:09 am
@Camila Gonzales yes! Those are noise defending headphones (increases concentration at competitions)
Nelson Dellis
December 21, 2022 at 12:09 am
@Infinite Monkey not that I know of…yet, anyways
Iva Cheung
December 21, 2022 at 8:51 am
This was great! Do you know if lion’s mane mushroom helps with memory?
QuiteFranklyFrank
December 21, 2022 at 2:17 pm
This was really interesting, thank you so much! I also have a question. I can’t recall people’s faces, at all. If I try to imagine the faces of family members, partners, siblings, friends etc I just can’t, it’s just nothing. I can recall their body language, voices, every item of clothing I’ve seen them in, but not their face. I have tried many strategies, such as trying to remember to certain features, but none have worked.
I am autist, the fact that I do not recognize faces was actually noted when I was a baby, so it might be neurological to a degree where nothing really can be done, but I was wondering if perhaps you know of some strategies that are good for memorizing faces that might not be the ones I find when I try to google it?
Runoratsu
December 21, 2022 at 11:02 pm
As for the password, three (or more) unconnected complete words will give you a higher entropy than your example and will thus be safer (tho slightly more to type). Passwords of the kind you suggest are unfortunately harder to memorize for humans but not very hard to crack for computers.
Elizabeth R
December 22, 2022 at 1:41 am
It seems like most, if not all, techniques are for people who can picture items within their mind. For us with aphantasia, anything you can suggest to help with memory?
brendragon
December 22, 2022 at 9:55 am
Now, against my will, I will forever remember the 5 largest countries in the world in any order, and some random grocery list. So, thanks? Hehe, just kidding… this was super helpful, and I thank you for all the info!
Stephen Barrette
December 22, 2022 at 3:32 pm
Thanks for a great video and a lot of really helpful tips and techniques. I bet if you had said at the end of the episode, ‘recite the grocery list’ most people probably could. I could and will probably never forget it now!
I’m definitely going to follow up on the techniques you suggested.
Smort Boi
December 23, 2022 at 4:59 pm
Is the gan cube yours? Do you know CFOP? Also do you know 3-style?
Z Z
December 20, 2022 at 8:14 pm
I loved this.
ScoobyFermentation
December 20, 2022 at 8:33 pm
Why does everyone have to use the F Word when asking a question?
Emil Westrum
December 20, 2022 at 8:34 pm
Those are not headphones, those are regular Peltor ear protectors. If they start to play music, somethings going on.
Migglemaggle
December 20, 2022 at 8:44 pm
I’d have a harder time remembering what the banana contained.
Dexi
December 20, 2022 at 8:57 pm
A little ironic not being able to remember why the 8 of clubs is bear grylls.
Christian T. G.
December 20, 2022 at 11:01 pm
Hate to be that guy, but not really. Only the association matters, the reason doesn’t. And when things are unimportant the brain tends to forget them.
Dexi
December 20, 2022 at 9:02 pm
DO NOT TAKE HIS PASSWORD ADVICE. The password he came up with is god awful and insecure. It’s short AF and uses very little variety. Instead, use the full phrase. NelsonCharlesDellisrocksmysocksoff! would be MUCH better, just as easy to remember. OR just use a password manager that makes passwords and stores them for you.
Andy Chamberlain Music
December 20, 2022 at 9:38 pm
very cool fun fact about smell being evolutionarily older and therefore bypassing the thalamus and that being why smell memories are so immediate
Andy Chamberlain Music
December 20, 2022 at 9:39 pm
please dont use 8 character passwords, use a password manager for the love of god
with love, a software engineer
Sha Smi
December 20, 2022 at 9:41 pm
This dude looks like Bert Krischer if he never drank alcohol and didn’t become a comedian. If he was a normal human that didn’t f^ck dogs. Can you see it??
Izumi Sagiri
December 20, 2022 at 9:52 pm
Ah that’s why when I get up and walk somewhere in house, I forget that I got up to use restroom
Marcel16DM
December 20, 2022 at 9:59 pm
My memory so bad I just watched this entire video and don’t remember one thing he talked about. Not even his name 🫥
ChristophGangrel
December 20, 2022 at 10:05 pm
Here’s a interesting trick to study for your test or exam… First check if your teacher or whoever wont have anything against you chewing gum during the exam… And the trick is to chew it during studing and tahn chew it while taking the exam… Its best to chose gum with distinc falvour and smell. It basicly uses what he mentioned about smell and worked like charm for me back in the day…
Dustin Travis
December 20, 2022 at 10:07 pm
P Diddy, meet Aphroditty.
Jill Whitcomb
December 20, 2022 at 10:10 pm
I went to my Mom’s funeral about six months ago. Every single person who walked into the church, and wanted to speak to me, I could remember their name, what they used to do for a living, their adult kids names, and where they lived. Although, many of the people I hadn’t seen or spoken to for well over 20 or 30 years. Not sure why I can remember all of my Mom’s old friends, but struggle to recall what I ate for dinner last night.
losmt2
December 20, 2022 at 10:24 pm
I’m about to ruin your day by making you remember something you wish you can forget just as easy.
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy
But here’s my number, so call me, maybe
It’s hard to look right at you, baby
But here’s my number, so call me, maybe
Richkunst
December 20, 2022 at 10:35 pm
swearing is bad for your memory
jacob hawkins
December 20, 2022 at 10:51 pm
Broo my phone during school somehow clicked on this and went to the middle of the video and started playing during advisory (6th hour)
Carlos Hernandez
December 20, 2022 at 11:44 pm
so Michael Scott was right about how to remember names!
Woodshadow
December 21, 2022 at 12:09 am
Remember don’t trust snake oil supplements. Instead take fish oil supplements
Justa Youtuber
December 21, 2022 at 12:25 am
The only thing I was doubtful of was the foods. Every growers association puts forth studies that their food helps with this or that. Many to most have not ever been scientifically reproduced in tests.
AstroYogiAmanda
December 21, 2022 at 12:27 am
Thank you this was awesome
Reece Shommer
December 21, 2022 at 12:59 am
Does the first tweet affect school hours and school starting hours and does it affect when you wake up for school
Anna I
December 21, 2022 at 1:02 am
Yeah, no to banana/bread/asparagus visualization. Only people who can’t cook at all might do something like that.
Sidney Sun
December 21, 2022 at 1:16 am
asparagus
bread
banana
sour cream
coffee beans
i will never forget this list for years to come lol
R HRH
December 21, 2022 at 7:28 am
Must be wild not to have aphantasia lol
STRVNGEWXRLD
December 21, 2022 at 7:29 am
This was so awesome!
Kevin Hardeman
December 21, 2022 at 7:37 am
That’s not a “pretty complex password” at all, with only 8 characters it would take only a few hours to hack by brute force.
Great video nontheless 🙂
S.G.R
December 21, 2022 at 7:51 am
first question. does sleep affect memory.
answer, Yes sleep is important.
Me at 3 in the morning: oh wow, yeah, I guess I should just get off of this and go to bed, I can’t even correctly remember the question or the answer. thanks memory guy who had a name
Peggy Brown
December 21, 2022 at 8:13 am
I have great memory. It’s a curse. 🙄
Jack Jax
December 21, 2022 at 8:44 am
Interview Andrew Tate WIRED if you have the guts.😂😂😂
Mül Ler
December 21, 2022 at 8:56 am
So how to remember alot if you have aphantasia and can’t see pictures in your head? 🤔
Sandra Viknander
December 21, 2022 at 9:17 am
”That is more interesting than a physics formula”
My physics teacher would spin in his grave if he heard that.
shandya
December 21, 2022 at 11:10 am
Where was this video when I was still in highschool
space_cadet6
December 21, 2022 at 11:25 am
Does anyone else find it satisfying how his shirt, brain model, rubik’s cube tiles and his eyes are all the same blue?
Miko Tagayuna
December 21, 2022 at 11:48 am
Schoolteachers tend to be very good at remembering your names because they tend to process your presence in the form of a seat plan’s grid. I remeber being greeted by one of my former elementary school teachers who knew my name decades later and promptly embarassing myself trying to remember hers.
Koré Thoë
December 21, 2022 at 12:06 pm
I just started watching…..will EVERY question have the F-bomb????? Anyone remember?
TheOWLCITYADDICT
December 21, 2022 at 1:20 pm
Password tip is really bad. Better to use the whole sentence and not only the letters
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December 21, 2022 at 1:34 pm
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parafraceren
December 21, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Lots of semi- and pseudoscience in this one. Memory expert =/= neuroscientist.
Taldarim
December 21, 2022 at 2:08 pm
I love how he just doesn’t answer questions but gives us little presentation of more or less each question. I would definitely want to see more of this guy! 😊
RITESH DJ RAJ
December 21, 2022 at 2:27 pm
Hii
Stanis_here
December 21, 2022 at 4:24 pm
This man straight up chooses violence everyday to remember all sorts of stuff and it works 😂
Suraj Ryan
December 21, 2022 at 4:42 pm
After all that he has done, Bear Gryll urinating on a thong doesn’t sound weird anymore. Sounds like something straight up his alley (no pun intended)
xkn xkn
December 21, 2022 at 4:48 pm
seems he also has muscle memory
Skaidrojumi
December 21, 2022 at 5:42 pm
Why does every question include “how/why the f”?
Joe
December 21, 2022 at 6:35 pm
12:00 that’s a one day crackable password, congratulations.
Heather Guertin
December 21, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Not sure I get it. Instead of remembering the list, now I’m trying to remember the images I came up with….. 😂
Solomon Rivers
December 21, 2022 at 7:32 pm
Have you ever gone to write a comment and forgot what you wanted to stay
Aden Yuan
December 22, 2022 at 4:20 am
what a coincidence, cause I wanted to have a good memory today, and I just went to the WIRED channel, and this just came out as a recent vid! Wow, and I didn’t search this up or even cared to, I just went to WORED channel and this came up! WOW
pqrs_987
December 22, 2022 at 4:40 am
i make a shopping list on my phone before going to the supermarket. i almost always forget something if i rely on my memory while grocery shopping
JeskidoYT
December 22, 2022 at 6:14 am
hope he can memorize these comments
Matthew Jacob
December 22, 2022 at 8:19 am
Finally I can learn how to properly cram for my exams
DVOYD
December 22, 2022 at 9:52 am
it’d be hilarious if Bear Grylls ended up watching this
Pratyush Dhakal
December 22, 2022 at 1:37 pm
Where does forgotten memory go?
And again how tf does it come out out nowhere??
Anthony Luu
December 22, 2022 at 7:27 pm
Theres no way that guy made that story on the top of his head 😮 3:40
Me Here
December 22, 2022 at 8:27 pm
where did he suggest he did? He made up the list himself, so obviously he pre-planned it all, it’s like having the brain model there, pre-planned
Me Here
December 22, 2022 at 7:37 pm
That’s how I create passwords too, but there’s no number in it, to create a number, I just make sure there’s a “to/too” (2) or a “for” (4) in the sentence
For example this sentence equals the following … “4Ets=tf…”
I capitalise the first letter, or a name in the sentence, or both too, cause passwords nowadays require an upper case. Really hard to crack, but really easy to remember after manually typing it in a few times before allowing auto complete to do it
Samuel Takáč
December 22, 2022 at 9:18 pm
i hope i wont forget this video before the finals
Bodawei
December 23, 2022 at 1:21 am
Who are these people who put “F…” in each of their questions? Is it supposed to sound cool? Are they primary school students?
Aggermor
December 23, 2022 at 2:10 am
I often get tip of the tongue (also known as lethologica) phenomenon. Where people often recall one or more features of the target word, such as the first letter, its syllabic stress, and words similar in sound and/or meaning. I always say “it starts with a c.. what’s the word? It means like other people can catch the sickness”
Sakith Seneviratne
December 23, 2022 at 4:04 am
If he was a pokemon he would ba a physic type
Charlie_Xmas
December 23, 2022 at 4:57 am
wait wait wait, you can bring smell back to memory? I can’t do that what? I can’t placebo my nose into thinking it’s smelling something that’s not there :V
Ihtesham Emon
December 23, 2022 at 5:38 am
Wow! This is the best Q&A session that wired done yet! ❤️
victor 91
December 23, 2022 at 8:52 am
9:07 so the next question is…. how do I wipe my memory?
Pras Fidelis
December 23, 2022 at 9:17 am
15:03 i figured out the “3 ways to memorize for a test” in high school simply through experimentation. well, 2 ways really—i skipped the 3rd one (to actually try to recall what i studied). my interweaving was not studying something else, but rather doing something mundane like listening to music or reading a magazine/comics. it was quite effective.
Megadextrious
December 23, 2022 at 9:29 am
Wow this was really cool!! I’ve always had a pretty good memory and I was kind of surprised that I already use some of these tactics to make sure important information gets locked in 😅
But I will also admit the older I get, the worse my short term memory is becoming.
Sharky857
December 23, 2022 at 4:31 pm
I personally felt some of those questions.
Like, in high school I had a similar issue to the one who asked how is it possible to memorise song lyrics so perfectly but not physics formulas. I remember I was struggling with understanding biology as a whole subject, but I was also determined to try and get better grades. At that time I was also an avid bookworm for novels, and I started to wonder how come I could still remember perfectly a novel I read even 3-4 years prior (and only that once), but not what our teacher explained merely 2 days before. I came to realise that, when reading something fictional, I tended to imagine (visualise) the scenes and dialogues in my head -(I guess this is what pretty much everyone else does too)-
So I started to study by reading notes and text books as if I were reading the plot of a fictional novel. My grades did improve significantly afterwards. 🤯
W0rTex N1
December 23, 2022 at 6:33 pm
so The mentalist was not boolshiting about memoy staff.
semoremo
December 23, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Nothing beats watching this video while I’m suposed to be studying for my finals
Alex
December 23, 2022 at 7:46 pm
I think this is the most expletive questions Wired has had…or is it? Lol
Matt
December 23, 2022 at 7:49 pm
He would’ve only been 4 time USA memory champion if I hadn’t forgotten what day it was on last year!
Ashwin
December 23, 2022 at 8:56 pm
I wonder how long can he retain all this irrelevant information that he memorises for these vid or competitions
Rhom
December 24, 2022 at 6:09 am
I thought this was a video about Gregg Turkington’s masterpiece of cinema. 🍿🍿😢
108 U 🟡
December 24, 2022 at 2:46 pm
I can’t remember what his first answer was 😂
you is stupid
December 24, 2022 at 3:58 pm
why is that blue brain so beautiful?
Krystina Engler
December 24, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Epilepsy can also cause memory loss.
Jared Walpole
December 24, 2022 at 7:24 pm
I loved this episode. I didn’t realize I was unconsciously doing a lot of these already. My go to method for acing tests in school was to study using spaced repetition or interleaving but while I was studying I would listen to the same song on repeat. Then when I needed to recall everything I was studying I would just sing the song in my head and I could recall almost everything, a lot of times the pages eidetically.
Michael (Em4gdn1m)
December 24, 2022 at 11:34 pm
Wonder how good this guy is at chess especially openings.
Michael
December 24, 2022 at 11:34 pm
Wonder how good this guy is at chess especially openings.
Steve Peterson
December 25, 2022 at 2:13 am
Sour cream out of banana…hmmm wired getting risky
James At
December 25, 2022 at 6:54 am
I have a scar on my temporal lobe, which causes me to obsess over my memories until I know them by heart. I love making memory videos for lists of things. My most recent one is the Booker Prize winners. I’ve found that the more random and odd the videos are, the more likely you remember them.
kronick
December 25, 2022 at 7:40 am
This was great but 90% of these questions would have been better for a neuroscientist.
Dwi Dana
December 25, 2022 at 8:28 am
This video is the most beneficial Wired ever creates
tamanna afroz
December 25, 2022 at 12:17 pm
🙏
Gmshep717LP
December 25, 2022 at 2:51 pm
I’m in pharmacy school and when I’m studying drug names I teleport my mind back to my first pharmacy job and look thru the shelves of drugs, so cool that technique has a name (memory palace)
DP
December 25, 2022 at 3:54 pm
I was visiting my hometown in Ukraine, and I went to a local bar. Met a girl there, who had a bright ultraviolet light behind her on the wall. Her name was Violeta. This was in 2017.
Ikari1212
December 25, 2022 at 6:21 pm
So to memorize a 52-card deck, I have to memorize 52 Persons, Actions and Objects associated with those cards first. And then I have to think of 18 “Memory Palaces”. Which I also have to remember the order of. But then I can do it! Then I can remember a deck of cards. :d Still pretty impressive.
jongameaddict
December 25, 2022 at 10:57 pm
Omg the password one really hits me. I was just joking back and forth with my mom recently about passwords and passively mentioned that one is 22 characters and she was like, you’re insane. But I have never forgotten it after 9 years, and nobody else has ever guessed it!
Yaelle Glenn
December 25, 2022 at 11:01 pm
Wait so you’ve got a mom who is missing part of her brain & THIS is the comment you leave?! Okay…
jongameaddict
December 26, 2022 at 3:59 am
@Yaelle Glenn 💀 all I said was I have many long passwords and your response to learning about it was funny
Jeppe Mellbak
December 25, 2022 at 11:04 pm
After watching this i feel like i will forever remember that shopping list and the five biggest countries in the world lol
SlipperySnake321
December 25, 2022 at 11:57 pm
Jabba the hutt, Pizza Hut, fat guys like pizza, pepperoni Tony! You’re name is Tony!
Bushido Brown
December 27, 2022 at 12:42 am
“Bear Grylls peeing on a thong in your highschool bedroom” isnt a sentence I thought I’d ever hear