Dear Followers,
In my quest to bring the latest in memory research to my readers, I came across this video of Stan Lee's Superhumans ( a fantastic show ) on humans that can seem to do extraordinary things.
Ron White did a segment on the show where he shows off his super memory, a memory he freely admits he trained and was not born with. I actually got his course on memory when I first started learning techniques and I can say without a doubt that Ronnie White's Memory in a month program is great. It teaches you everything you need to know on how to train your mind to recall vast amounts of information.
Now as I watched the video, there is a part where scans of Ron's brain were compared with an untrained brain for memory. Memory experts such as Ron White and myself will attest to the fact that we have no special gift. Although I am no where near as talented as Ron, I can assure you my memory was trained and built from the ground up, and Ron has said this publicly many times that he has taken memory courses to improve his memory and trained like a Navy Seal to improve his results and become the USA memory Champion.
I fully expected the scans between Ron and the untrained host to be virtually identical. To my surprise, in the video the researcher shows that Ron is using 35% MORE of his brain than the host, particularly on the right side of the brain where visual memory is used. I was genuinely puzzled - for about 5 seconds, until I started to think about how the brain works and why his brain was 35% more active than an untrained brain.
The answer is in the brain's construction of neural pathways between neurons. Now I am not a brain expert, nor can you count on what I am about to say, but from all the reading I have done on the brain, as you build your memory, your brain builds more and more pathways between the 100 billion cells you have called neurons. My theory is that when Ron was not a memory expert, his memory worked like everyone else and I would be willing to bet that his scan would have looked exactly like the hosts. As Ron trained his memory over the years, pathways began to join between neurons in the visual part of the brain, in short the more he worked this part of his brain the better it became at recalling information. Why the visual area? Well, it is common knowledge that your brain has an easier time remembering funny pictures as opposed to numbers and letters, which is why if you have been following my twitter account @bennettonika you will see tweets describing nicknames of hands with stories attached to them to derive the rankings of hole cards in heads up and full table situations. IE JT is Justin Timberlake who DIVEs on a MOP and gets REAL LUCKY he doesn't die.
An interesting study would be to take 50 participants with untrained memories scan them, and then train them as Ron White trained and then scan them again to see if they use more of their brain for definitive proof. In my mind I already believe your brain is like any muscle you already have, but sceptics would of course need to see real scientific data and of course, we shall not deny them that.
For your pleasure and interest I have included the 10 minutes on Ron in Superhumans. I won't spoil it but he does something quite awesome in the end!
Until next post, train hard and recall EVERYTHING!!!!!
Bennett Onika
In my quest to bring the latest in memory research to my readers, I came across this video of Stan Lee's Superhumans ( a fantastic show ) on humans that can seem to do extraordinary things.
Ron White did a segment on the show where he shows off his super memory, a memory he freely admits he trained and was not born with. I actually got his course on memory when I first started learning techniques and I can say without a doubt that Ronnie White's Memory in a month program is great. It teaches you everything you need to know on how to train your mind to recall vast amounts of information.
Now as I watched the video, there is a part where scans of Ron's brain were compared with an untrained brain for memory. Memory experts such as Ron White and myself will attest to the fact that we have no special gift. Although I am no where near as talented as Ron, I can assure you my memory was trained and built from the ground up, and Ron has said this publicly many times that he has taken memory courses to improve his memory and trained like a Navy Seal to improve his results and become the USA memory Champion.
I fully expected the scans between Ron and the untrained host to be virtually identical. To my surprise, in the video the researcher shows that Ron is using 35% MORE of his brain than the host, particularly on the right side of the brain where visual memory is used. I was genuinely puzzled - for about 5 seconds, until I started to think about how the brain works and why his brain was 35% more active than an untrained brain.
The answer is in the brain's construction of neural pathways between neurons. Now I am not a brain expert, nor can you count on what I am about to say, but from all the reading I have done on the brain, as you build your memory, your brain builds more and more pathways between the 100 billion cells you have called neurons. My theory is that when Ron was not a memory expert, his memory worked like everyone else and I would be willing to bet that his scan would have looked exactly like the hosts. As Ron trained his memory over the years, pathways began to join between neurons in the visual part of the brain, in short the more he worked this part of his brain the better it became at recalling information. Why the visual area? Well, it is common knowledge that your brain has an easier time remembering funny pictures as opposed to numbers and letters, which is why if you have been following my twitter account @bennettonika you will see tweets describing nicknames of hands with stories attached to them to derive the rankings of hole cards in heads up and full table situations. IE JT is Justin Timberlake who DIVEs on a MOP and gets REAL LUCKY he doesn't die.
An interesting study would be to take 50 participants with untrained memories scan them, and then train them as Ron White trained and then scan them again to see if they use more of their brain for definitive proof. In my mind I already believe your brain is like any muscle you already have, but sceptics would of course need to see real scientific data and of course, we shall not deny them that.
For your pleasure and interest I have included the 10 minutes on Ron in Superhumans. I won't spoil it but he does something quite awesome in the end!
Until next post, train hard and recall EVERYTHING!!!!!
Bennett Onika
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