Do you think you can easily learn to memorize the order of a deck of cards in a few minutes? Well guess what, you can!
I’m sure I am far from the only person to read Moonwalking with Einstein and get inspired to try some memorization. It turned out to be pretty fun and eye-opening! One week after finishing the book I was able to memorize the order of a deck of cards in under 10 minutes.
In honor of len(deck), here are 52 thoughts/takes:
Epistemic status: Very uncertain, I’m interested if others agree and if any other writing or research on this exists. Don't take too seriously.
For most smart-ish upper-middle class-ish kids these days (well, maybe not *these* days; thanks covid), going to college means moving out of your house (and often your state) and into a dorm, doing schoolwork for a few hours a day, and spending the rest of your time hanging out with new friends, who will likely be very similar to you in their interests, political views, and smarts.
Gee that’s a lot of free time there...especially if you extend the trend to 2021
Source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15954/w15954.pdf
