The Teqniques Used In Nelson Mirski's 'Dig Deeper'

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There are many memory tricks used to help prepare the mind, for Nelson Dellis he used tricks such as rmemorizing a shuffled deck of playing cards as he climbed Mount Everest. Dellis would reshuffle the deck of cards at each new altitude in his climb. He would also uses an ancient teqniuque called a "journey method." This involves Dellis picturing memorized objects as he moves mentally through a place he knows well. One technique that Mirski uses is to memorize playing cards. Mirski's trick is to mentally link objects with certain suits and numbers. One example of this trick would be the the ace of clubs is a giant club sandwich. The information in Dig Deeper, helped me undersatnd how one can train it's brain to be capable of anything its

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