Friday, January 9, 2009

SciAm: Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker

From the article...
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my “friends.” I think this is why my memory is very deep, because the information is not static. I say in my book that I do not crunch numbers (like a computer). Rather, I dance with them.
and...
Various studies have long demonstrated that being able to visualize information makes it easier to remember.
Soooooo interesting! Read the article here.

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