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What is a mnemonist, and what do they do? How does someone become a mnemonist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mnemonist is someone who has an ability to recall data. Mnemonists usually gain their skills through practice and specific techniques, not because they have any sort of natural ability. In fact, most mnemonists agree that anyone can gain world class memory skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read about some of the top mnemonists in the world and their best methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What Is a Mnemonist?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the author\u2019s year-long exploration of memory, mental athletes were constantly telling him that anyone can learn memory techniques. Unlike savants, there\u2019s nothing unusual about the brains of mnemonists<\/strong>. So what is a mnemonist, and what do they do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, mnemonists do tend to belong to a particular subculture. They dress unusually, enjoy juggling, often don\u2019t have impressive day jobs, and many of them are male, young, and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mnemonist Definition<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The mnemonist meaning is simply a master memorizer. Part of the mnemonist definition that these memory masters deliberately work on their memorization skills. In fact, the best mnemonists compete internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some notables:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Tony Buzan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Tony Buzan is one of the most notable figures in the memory world, and other mnemonists have mixed feelings about him. Half of them think Buzan is a genius whose methods will transform the educational system, and the other half think he\u2019s an unscientific moneymaker. Either way, the mnemonist meaning definitely applies to Buzan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Buzan was a child, his best friend Barry was put in the \u201cdunces\u2019 class\u201d while Buzan was in the most advanced classes. However, Barry was very good with nature and animals\u2014he could identify everything. Buzan realized that there was something wrong with the system\u2014if the school thought Barry wasn\u2019t smart when he clearly was, the system must be misdefining intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzan\u2019s second ah-ha moment was in his first university class. Whenever his instructor took attendance and someone was missing, the instructor would call out their address, phone number, birthday, and parents\u2019 names. Buzan asked the instructor how he\u2019d done this. The instructor refused to tell him for a long time, but one day he explained the Major System to the entire class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzan again realized the failings of the educational system\u2014the Major System was a game-changer, and no one had ever taught it to him until now. <\/strong>He was sure there were other important things he\u2019d missed. He couldn\u2019t find a book about how to best operate your brain\u2014and there still isn\u2019t one\u2014but he did find the Ad Herennium<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzan learned memory techniques and then worked as a substitute teacher and taught them to students. He came up with a particular method of note-taking called a Mind Map<\/a>, which is a bit of an on-paper memory palace<\/a>.<\/strong> A Mind Map involves drawing lines between main and subsidiary points and using lines, color, and images to connect things. Scientists at the University of London studied Mind Maps and found that they resulted in about a 10% increase in retention than mainstream note-taking techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzan now makes his living selling books about memory. He\u2019s been more successful selling books than he has getting his techniques into the curriculum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzan started the World Memory Championship<\/a> in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Ed Cooke<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The mnemonist definition definitely applies to Ed Cooke, who coached author Joshua Foer. Cooke is a British mental athlete and a grand master of memory<\/a>. (To be a grand master, you have to be able to memorize 1,000 random digits in less than an hour, the order of ten shuffled decks of cards in less than an hour, and the order of one deck in less than two minutes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed was the author\u2019s memory technique coach. He finished in eleventh at the 2005 World Memory Championship after flubbing the speed card event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Ben Pridmore<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ben Pridmore competes internationally in the memory competitions. Interestingly, he didn\u2019t learn about the existence of memory techniques until he went to his first World Memory Championship. Up until then, he\u2019d been using rote memorization<\/a>. After learning techniques<\/a>, he won the World Memory Championship in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2005, Pridmore planned to beat a world record by memorizing the first 50,000 digits of pi. However, an obscure Japanese mnemonist beat him to it by memorizing 83,431. It took Ben six months to clear pi out of his memory palaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Lukas Ams\u00fcss<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lukas is an Austrian mnemonist and has achieved the rank of grand master of memory. He and Ed co-founded a society of memorizers called the KL7. KL stands for \u201cKnights of Learning\u201d and the 7 represents the original seven members. Lukas and Ed also have plans to start the Oxford Mind Academy, which is like a gym for brains, with Ed and Lukas acting as personal trainers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Dr. Gunther Karsten<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Gunther Karsten is another international mental athlete. He\u2019s won all of Germany\u2019s national contests since 1998, and takes the mnemonist meaning seriously. He wears earmuffs and sunglasses with tape covering most of the lenses to ward off distractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Corinna Draschl<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Corinna Draschl is an Austrian mnemonist. She competed in the World Memory Championship at 15 and won the poetry memorizing event. She uses the emotional method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Clemens Mayer<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Clemens Mayer is an eighteen-year-old law student from Bavaria and one of Gunther\u2019s students. He won the World Memory Championship in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mnemonists listed above are either professionals or hobbyists that work consistently on their memorization skills. Mnemonists also agree that working on these techniques can improve memory abilities overall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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