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Cal Newport in Deep Work also mentions that book and recommends this kind of memory exercise. Not only for the value of being able to memorize stuff, but becaus
by mbrock 11y ago
Cal Newport in Deep Work also mentions that book and recommends this kind of memory exercise. Not only for the value of being able to memorize stuff, but because it seems like memory training improves attention, citing a professor at the University of Washington's Memory Lab:
> We found that one of the biggest differences between memory athletes and the rest of us is in a cognitive ability that's not a direct measure of memory at all but of attention.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/remembering-as-an-extreme-sport/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/remembering-as-an-e...
- vowelless 11y agoSlightly OT, but I quite appreciated Deep Work. Been following Newport for many years now. His last two books have been quite interesting.
- mbrock 11y agoI quite appreciated it too. Just got back to work after a long vacation and I've been doing some deep working, more or less, although not in a tower out in the forest. But I like the audacity of the book, or something like that: like it encourages me to really try for serious sustained effort. Reminds me a little of that talk "You and your research".