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Moonwalking with Einstein

Moonwalking with Einstein

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Oct 16, 2026

Chad HyamsHOST
7:38
Just don't be average at anything.
Chad HyamsHOST
7:41
And I wanna talk about a concept Joshua Foer came out with in Moonwalking With Einstein.
Chad HyamsHOST
7:49
That's, that's the, the book that it's in.
Chad HyamsHOST
7:52
And the term that he coined was the OK Plateau.
Ravid TillesGUEST
11:21
How many times are we going to continue to keep doing this? To answer that, I'm going to take a sharp turn here, so stay with me, okay? I have been reading a book by actually a member of our Schecter community.
Ravid TillesGUEST
11:37
His name is Josh Foer, and he wrote a book in 2011 called Moonwalking with Einstein about his journey to becoming the American memory champion.
Ravid TillesGUEST
11:49
And just a very short context, memory championships happen all around the world to see who can be quickest to memorize an unseen shuffled deck of cards, for instance, or an unseen poem or an unseen song.
Ravid TillesGUEST
12:03
And how well can you memorize? And Josh, jumped into this and trained for one year and had all these techniques that he learned, and he became the American memory champion after one year of preparing.
David KirkpatrickGUEST
21:02
Those are all little what I call memory glue.
David KirkpatrickGUEST
21:06
And this comes from the book Moonwalking with Einstein, which is a book about memory champions that go to memory tournaments that Memorize like I mean, I'm memorized all that.
David KirkpatrickGUEST
21:17
What is it the table of contents of thinking go rich the 15 chapters Using those techniques so I just look for like those added benefits that people don't really think about because What is learning learning is improved behavior? It's hard to improve your behavior if someone asks you about a book you can't even say one sentence and
Aleric HeckHOST
21:38
And that's the other thing, too, because there's speed reading, but then there's the memory and recall and actually action taking.

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