Zone 9 · Reading People
Memory Tricks
Nine lessons of about three minutes each, every one with a live demo and a quick test.
- How Your Brain Thinks×7
- Famous Experiments×2
- 73MemoryYour Memories Are Rewritten Every TimeEach time you remember something, you quietly edit it
- 74False MemoryThe Car Crash QuestionChange one word in a question and witnesses remember glass that wasn't there
- 75False MemoryLost in the MallAbout a quarter of people came to remember a childhood day that never happened
- 76LearningThe Forgetting CurveMost of what you learn today is gone within days, unless you do this
- 77LearningSpace It Out to Remember ItStudying a little over several days beats cramming the same hours
- 78LearningTest Yourself to RememberTrying to recall something beats rereading it, by a lot
- 79MemoryWhy You Forget NamesYou remember a stranger is a baker but forget his name is Baker
- 80MemoryFlashbulb Memories LieYour crystal-clear memory of where you were on a big day is probably wrong
- 81LearningTeach It to Learn ItExpecting to teach something makes you learn it better