Anthony Metivier

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Anthony Metivier · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

It was wild and it was sort of working because people were buying these books about screenwriting that I wrote.

Yeah, it's not that difficult.

I'm not confident of anything in my memory per se, but my perception is that it was about 15 minutes.

But I wasn't totally new to the exact ideas.

I mean, it was just in this adventure, I had started to develop these.

And then I saw on YouTube this idea of the Holy Grail.

If it hadn't been magic, I probably would have looked at it and said...

There's no way I'm going to memorize a deck of cards.

But because I was blessed as a kid to have had a magic kid and did show and tell with magic and so forth, the soil was set.

for the great adventure that emerged.

And so, you know, sometimes people ask me, like, if I have any special advantage that they don't have.

And I say, I don't really think so, except for luck.

And that's true, you know, and maybe that I learned with reading phonics.

There's a guy named Richard Rubin, who emailed me at one point, and he's a mnemonist and a mentalist and a magician.

And we were on the podcast and we were talking about the problem of phonics.

Because sometimes people really struggle to understand these techniques.

And he said, well, there was a whole period of whole reading where people weren't taught to sound out words.

And that's why a lot of people are starting to struggle with understanding these memory techniques.

What would be a good memory technique to start with?

One of the most powerful and useful and probably the easiest memory techniques to learn is association so you can absorb people's names and recall them.

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