New York, Feb 8 (ANI): Grand Master of Memory Ed Cooke has revealed his trick to memorize a shuffled deck of cards in competition in 43 seconds.
The first trick is learning the cards. You convert 52 cards into 52 celebrities, the Huffington post reported.
The mind ignores the mundane and remembers the unusual, whether people (e.g., Lady Gaga) or a sudden motion in the under- brush. The more unusual, the more the brain forms a bookmark for recall.
To make recalling 52 celebrities easier, each suit corresponds to a personality type and each card ( jack, 10, ace, etc.) corresponds to a profession (or category). This means that when you look at a given card, you'll have two cues to help you remember the celebrity.
The Suits (think: personalities): Diamonds can be linked with rich people, Hearts with people you love, Clubs can be tough or crazy people, and Spades-amusing or absurd people.
The Cards (think: professions): All even numbers are female and all odd numbers are male, and they're paired up.
You can just remember that, for instance, 9s are powerful men, and the 10s are therefore powerful women. The 5s are controversial males, so 6s are controversial females, etc.
King can be male half of celeb couple, while Queen can be the female half of celeb couple.
Celeb couples are the royalty of the present. Each suit will have its own celeb couple. Contrasting celeb couples-John and Yoko, David Bowie and Iman-can help the pairs stick.
Jack can be Religious figures. They are bachelors; religious figures were bachelors.
10 famously powerful women, 9 famously powerful men - highest numbers, highest-powered people.
8 can be famous female physiques, 7 famous male physiques - hourglass or busty or hunky or ripped-the bodies of your dreams.
6 can be controversial females, and 5 controversial males. Think of "five" and "effing"; "six" sounds like "sex."
4 - female movie stars, 3 - male movie stars, 2 sportswomen and Ace Sportsmen.
Ace is a term associated with excellence in sports; think of "two" as "deuce" in tennis.
Having chosen 13 professions/categories and four personalities-just 17 things to learn-you can use your existent knowledge and opinions to fill out a 52-card matrix.
The ace of diamonds, on my scheme, is a sports- man (ace) who got rich (diamonds) -- OK, Michael Jordan. The jack of spades on my scheme would be a religious figure who's amusing-the Dalai Lama has a good sense of humor. The six of spades, a humorously controversial woman-Lady Gaga, no question.
Using this method, it should take less than an hour to fill the matrix out and come to be able to slowly recall the people who now correspond to the 52 cards.
Once you have your cast of card-people, go through shuffled decks and practice translating the cards to their images until it's automatic. This might take another hour to begin to master.
The next step is to put them in order.
Step Two: Memorizing the Order of a Shuffled Deck.
You will now peg 52 cards to locations along a familiar route. It could be a path through your house, the journey from your front door to a favorite pub-whatever you like. Some memory competitors use their childhood homes: Scott Hagwood, who won the U.S. Memory Championship from 2001-2004, uses rooms from luxury homes he finds in Architectural Digest, 10 locations per room.
If you choose that approach, you can mentally position yourself at the entrance to each room and move as follows: at your feet, closest left corner, then clockwise to left wall, then far left corner, opposite wall, far right corner, right wall, closest right corner, then two spots on the ceiling.
Choosing 52 locations should take no more than 30 minutes, and then you can start placing your celebrities (cards) at each point. Keep it simple for now, using a longer path if multiple points per room cause overload.
For example, a pack beginning with the jack of spades would mean the Dalai Lama standing at the first point on my route-my bed. At the second point, my wardrobe, I'd deposit the image corresponding to the second card, perhaps it will be Michael Jordan-the ace of diamonds.
Continue all the way through the pack, taking your time and lots of care to imagine each person vividly in their position. Once you get to the end of the route, retrace it in your imagination and you will hopefully encounter all the people in the sequence that you imagined them. You will probably need to go through two or three times the first time you attempt it. (ANI)
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