David Epstein

Oh, that's kind of like a fast mile time.

And then, so what you want to do is so that you're not remembering every digit, you're remembering groups of numbers.

Batching numbers.

Yeah.

And some people know if they hear of memory palace, which is this technique that's different kind of mnemonics where you need them or whatever in your mind.

And so you, you have a visualized space and you like attach certain memories to certain spots.

You gotta do it a few times, but I got clever with mnemonics and I bet you would be really good with sports related mnemonics too.

Well, I mean, that thing that I told you before where I was like, you asked for tips, I said BCS press release, right?

I think of it as like bowl championship series of press release, but it's just letters that relate to something that I can easily remember, but it's another acronym like that.

Interesting.

But when I'm doing my talks, I'm often not necessarily using sports-related mnemonics.

I'm kind of using other stuff that I attach it to.

Anything that's like really salient in your brain.

Sometimes people use like really weird or really dirty images because they're easy to remember.

Absolutely.

I think the first, and obviously this is very topical for me, is that optionality is overrated.

I think to a certain extent, preserving optionality has almost become like

religious zealotry.

I will hear people make decisions, say, well, I'll go with the one that preserves optionality.

That is just putting off making priorities.