{"id":369,"date":"2007-02-24T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=369"},"modified":"2007-02-24T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T11:07:20","slug":"how-to-remember-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"How to remember things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve previously mentioned, I&#8217;m currently reading the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tricks-Mind-Derren-Brown\/dp\/1905026269\/sr=1-1\/qid=1171626969\/ref=sr_1_1\/203-0486384-4155107?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">&#8220;Tricks Of The Mind&#8221;<\/a> by the British magician Derren Brown. I repeat that this is a badly-written work &#8211; and I&#8217;ll review it when I&#8217;ve finished it &#8211; but it does contain some very interesting subjects and ideas.<br \/>\nBrown devotes a chapter to memory tricks which gives an insight into how a brilliant performer like him can demonstrate such prodigous feats of memory. The techniques he describes are actually pretty complex and would not appeal to many people with more normal lives.<br \/>\nBut the book got me thinking and I decided to pull together another &#8211; the 23rd &#8211; contribution to the &#8216;Life Skills&#8217; section of my web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/remember.html\">&#8220;How To Remember Things&#8221;<\/a>. See if there&#8217;s anything there that helps you and please let me know if you have any ideas or techniques that I should add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve previously mentioned, I&#8217;m currently reading the book &#8220;Tricks Of The Mind&#8221; by the British magician Derren Brown. I repeat that this is a badly-written work &#8211; and I&#8217;ll review it when I&#8217;ve finished it &#8211; but it does contain some very interesting subjects and ideas. Brown devotes a chapter to memory tricks which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}