TED演讲：每个人都能掌握记忆技巧.pdf

TED 演讲：每个人都能掌握的记忆技巧 Id like to invite you to close your eyes. Imagine yourself standing outside the front door of your home. Id like you to notice the color of the door, the material that its madeout of. Now visualize a pack of overweight nudists on bicycles. They are competing in a naked bicycle race, and they are headed straight for your front door. I need you to actually see this. They are pedaling really hard, theyre sweaty, theyre bouncing around a lot. And they crash straight into the front door of your home. Bicycles fly everywhere, wheels roll past you, spokes end up in awkward places. Step over the threshold of your door into your foyer, your hallway, whatevers on the other side, and appreciate the quality of the light. The light is shining down on Cookie Monster. Cookie Monster is waving at you from his perch on top of a tan horse. Its a talking horse. You can practically feel his blue fur tickling your nose. You can smell the oatmeal raisin cookie that hes about to shovel into his mouth. Walk past him. Walk past him into your living room. In your living room, in full imaginative broadband, picture Britney Spears. She is scantily clad, shes dancing on your coffee table, and shes singing Hit MeBaby One More Time. And then follow meinto your kitchen. In your kitchen, the floor has been paved over with a yellow brick road and out of your oven are coming towards you Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion from The Wizard of Oz, hand-in-hand skipping straight towards you. Okay. Open your eyes. I want to tell you about a very bizarre contest that is held every spring in NewYork City. Its called the United States MemoryChampionship. And I had gone to cover this contest a few years back as a science journalist