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title: "#11 Mechanics, History, and Diet Hacking Memory - Limitless Mindset"
description: I discuss the historical origins of trained memory systems, the four types of memory that science recognizes, and reveal four association techniques...
author: Jonathan Roseland
url: https://www.limitlessmindset.com/podcast/170-hacking-memory
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# #11 Mechanics, History, and Diet Hacking Memory

Ⓒ By **Jonathan Roseland**

Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur, and Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest - spanning three continents - to find real-life "NZT-48."

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## In this episode, I discuss the historical origins of trained memory systems, the four types of memory that science recognizes, and reveal four association techniques to catalyze *original awareness*.

In the lifehacking section, I share seven foods essential to sharpening memory. 

Listen to this on the with the Castbox app, [here](https://castbox.fm/vb/71671725)

Sorry about the audio quality, I recorded this podcast (while being rained on) [in a park](https://goo.gl/maps/pBprYSq1BqCuG7mg9) at the border of Panama and France.

## In this episode, we discuss...

- How to always remember where you left your keys.
- 4 tools for creating powerful visual associations.
- Brainpower diet, what to eat to maximize and maintain memory.
- How to improve "Original Awareness."
- The *Loci* Technique was used by Roman and Greek orators.

*Rhetorica ad Herennium* on memory

> *“Now nature herself teaches us what we should do. When we see in every day life things that are petty, ordinary, and banal, we generally fail to remember them, because the mind is not being stirred by anything novel or marvellous. But if we see or hear something exceptionally base, dishonourable, unusual, great, unbelievable, or ridiculous, that we are likely to remember for a long time.”*

![Limitless Mindset at French Embassy](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/images/stories/blog/LimitlessMindsetatFrenchEmbassy.jpg)Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama

🇵🇦 There in Panama, I visited France for the one and only time in my life (and was crapped on by a bird!)

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**Resources and links**:
[Brain Power Guide PDF eBook, Audio Program & Mobile](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/membership/community-membership)
[Neural Pathways to Long term memory](https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/se367/10/presentation_local/Brain%20Structures%20for%20Memory.html)
[Romy Nelson](http://www.romynelson.com/)
[Decisions and the Evolution of Memory: Multiple Systems, Multiple Functions](http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/evolmemory02.pdf)
[Procedural Memory Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_memory)

**Music**
'World Wide' by [Johny Rocketz](http://www.reverbnation.com/johnyrocketz) & [King Tef](http://www.reverbnation.com/kingtef)
['Power' by Capeesh ft. Thelonious & Kid Dynomite](http://www.reverbnation.com/capeesh)
['I Made It' by Kevin Rudolf & Young Money](http://kevinrudolfmedia.tumblr.com/)
['Miles Away' Madonna Remix by MJOLLNYR](http://www.reverbnation.com/mjollnyr)

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