How To Train Yourself To Have An Exceptional Memory
- Video: How To Train Yourself To Have An Exceptional Memory by Justin Sung (41:57)
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Key Points
Justin Sung (learning coach + doctor) went from studying every waking hour and constantly relearning, to learning 100 pages of dense material at 90%+ retention while studying less — after thousands of hours studying how memory works.
- Memory is not a fixed trait. “Some people just have a bad memory” is wrong — it doesn’t even make sense.
- Reframe: memory is an attribute of a piece of information, not of you. A given fact enters your brain and is assigned a level of memory; later you either remember or forget it. We mislabel that outcome as “good/bad memory.”
- Implication: if memory is a property of how each piece of information was encoded, you can change it — by changing how you process information, not by being “smarter.”
- The video covers four learning-science principles about memory and how to apply them to train retention.