Motivation on the Run

It’s too late for you to compete this year, but the Memory Championships of 2007 are taking place this week in Bahrain. The best memorizors meet and compete to see who can memorize the most information, the quickest. The contest is divided into different categories and the person with the most points, at the end of the day, is crowned.

The best memories are made of this - Times Online
It’s the ultimate mental challenge: later this week in Bahrain 60 of the most lethally honed minds in the world will come together to test their powers of recall to superhuman extremes by competing in the memory world championships.

Over the course of three gruelling days they will take part in a 10-discipline “deca-mentathlon” in which they will be called upon to memorise entire decks of playing cards and hundreds of historical dates and random words as well as matching long lists of names with faces.

The competition, started by Tony Buzan in 1991, was created to show off the memory potential of the human brain. Buzan is credit with introducing the masses to mind mapping in the sixties and seventies.

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