Nelson Dellis

Yeah, no, you're exactly right.

I wasn't born with an amazing memory.

That's often the assumption people have that I just had this gift, but I only worked on my memory in my mid twenties.

I only got interested in it because of my grandmother and her

situation with Alzheimer's.

But the message is that everybody, no matter where you are in life, what you think your memory currently is capable of, we all can transform our brain, our memory, our minds.

There's so much potential there.

And I don't think a lot of people realize that.

I do.

I think that's what maybe sets me apart from others who have dabbled in the sport.

And even in the memory coaching that I do now, I always approach it with my clients as like, how can we train this as if it were essentially a muscle, setting goals for yourself, pushing the limits, trying to understand how to break around these barriers.

And the mind is, and memory is just like any other skill that you can learn.

And it's not a fixed thing.

A big part of it is trying to erase this label that people so easily attach to themselves and their own memory.

It's very common that you meet people who are just like, I'm a goldfish.

I have a terrible memory.

I'm terrible with names.

And they've just fixated that idea onto themselves.

So educating them that this is actually something you can work on is another part of that first step.

And I try to give them little quick wins, do little exercises where they'd be like, oh,