Nelson Dellis

So what's there to pull on?

So I think there's that argument for working on your memory because it will translate to keeping your memories alive and appreciating the moments in which these memories can develop.

So I just find it so important that people value their memories just to hold on to their lives more.

Yeah.

And that's the reason I really got so deep into memory training is because I watched my grandmother forget her life.

I mean, she was the storyteller of the family.

She would sit and listen to her talk about my dad and funny stories when he was a kid.

And she always had a great way of painting those pictures for us.

And then she couldn't, and she didn't, and she had nothing to say.

And she would forget who I was.

And it was such a bizarre thing to see and sad and

amazing to watch this powerful brain just become empty, you know?

But does it protect what will eventually happen to my mind?

I think so.

Maybe you'd be in a better position to answer that from a health perspective, but I have to think that the way I've treated my brain, the tools that I've built it, the cognitive reserves that I've created will last me till the end of my life.

And whether I'm due to get Alzheimer's

At some point, maybe it's going to be pushed later because, I don't know, I always think that if there's some version of me that's 85, I'd have to say that the 85-year-old Nelson memory champion would have the tools to be a little more with it, have a better, sharper memory.

Yeah.

And it's not just memory training.

That's maybe just one thing that I particularly like to do because I'm into memory sports.