![]() ![]() You don’t necessarily need a memorized deck, but it sure helps. And in Card Magic is the holy grail of magic tricks, which is any card at any number. The long story short is I tried to evade reality and was putting aside all my problems, but I found that I could focus not on my biblical Hebrew that I had to study, not on French philosophy, none of that stuff, but card magic for sure. And that’s where I found memory techniques. ![]() ![]() And these people come up to me and they do a magic trick, and it reminded me of when I was a kid and I was into magic. So anyway, somehow I dragged myself up to campus one day, and I saw some street magicians in the middle of this winter because at York Lanes, which is part of York University in Toronto, they reproduce an outdoor location indoors.Īnd this was around the time that YouTube was just coming into the world and David Blaine was all the rage. But then the depression would hit, and then I wouldn’t talk to anybody at all for days and days on end. And I would do the research myself, and even with a manic depression in the mix, I would be talking with the doctors as much as they would let me talk, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So when they say take pills, I say how many, that sort of thing. I had been hospitalized at one point and needed medication, and I was what you would maybe call like a zealous science person. So how did I get into memory? Well, really the sad part about it, but the good thing about it is I was in a deep depression while doing my research for the early stages of my PhD, and it was actual depression. Or you can listen to the Memorize What Matters podcast on your favorite player: Listen to “Stop Using Your Mobile Phone to Memorize the Bible (w/ Anthony Metivier)” on Spreaker. ![]()
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