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One of my favourite athletes is Steph Curry - he& #39;s redefined basketball, & has so much fun on court.
Late last year, ESPN invited him on show to play a memory game: they& #39;d show him a clip of him playing, freeze frame it, then ask him what happened next.
Late last year, ESPN invited him on show to play a memory game: they& #39;d show him a clip of him playing, freeze frame it, then ask him what happened next.
At least that was the theory.
Instead, what happened was: they& #39;d name the game, Steph would say "Oh, I bet you picked the [such-and-such] play, where I [etc etc etc]", before he& #39;d seen a single frame.
Instead, what happened was: they& #39;d name the game, Steph would say "Oh, I bet you picked the [such-and-such] play, where I [etc etc etc]", before he& #39;d seen a single frame.
At first, the commentators thought it was funny. Then they got spooked. Steph& #39;s talking about bench player reactions, where everyone on court was, etc
It& #39;s really fun to watch. He only partially does it on the first one, but then gets into the spirit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0zejRZXXk">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
It& #39;s really fun to watch. He only partially does it on the first one, but then gets into the spirit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0zejRZXXk">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Very similar thing here: LeBron James gets asked by a journalist "what happened next?", and simply recounts _everything_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNVJFRl6f6s">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
[Insert thread about expertise, memory & chunking, w/ examples in domains from tennis to chess to music to math. Mostly, though, it& #39;s just fun!]
Here& #39;s a beautiful Steph mixtape the NBA made in 2016, the year he was unanimous MVP. Enjoy, it& #39;s wondrous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0wmBUB4cg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Here& #39;s a beautiful Steph mixtape the NBA made in 2016, the year he was unanimous MVP. Enjoy, it& #39;s wondrous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0wmBUB4cg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Fun early papers on this were written about chess by the great Herb Simon (eg https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.601.2724&rep=rep1&type=pdf">https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/d... ) and by Adriaan de Groot (eg https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Choice-Chess-Adriaan-Groot/dp/4871877582/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=de+groot+chess&qid=1593315825&sr=8-2">https://www.amazon.com/Thought-C... ).
Those were for chess, but there& #39;s now a literature in many domains
A fave: Helga Noice & Tony Noice have extensively studied how actors memorize scripts. They wrote a book about it, but here& #39;s a lovely short paper with a quote from Michael Caine I love http://www.shafiknbahou.com/uploads/6/2/0/5/6205772/current_directions_in_psychological_science-2006-noice-14-8.pdf">https://www.shafiknbahou.com/uploads/6...
A fave: Helga Noice & Tony Noice have extensively studied how actors memorize scripts. They wrote a book about it, but here& #39;s a lovely short paper with a quote from Michael Caine I love http://www.shafiknbahou.com/uploads/6/2/0/5/6205772/current_directions_in_psychological_science-2006-noice-14-8.pdf">https://www.shafiknbahou.com/uploads/6...
The rough moral of all this work seems to be: intensively study (eg analysis and post-mortem) what you do; you will start to automatically see higher and higher level patterns ("chunks") if there are any to find; your memory gets better and better.
This all happens automatically, no magic required, just lots of thoughtful analysis & hard work
It& #39;s why if you cook thoughtfully for a while you start to get better and better at understanding the gist of new recipes - you can just be told a tiny bit, and will remember it.
It& #39;s why if you cook thoughtfully for a while you start to get better and better at understanding the gist of new recipes - you can just be told a tiny bit, and will remember it.
So Steph and LeBron aren& #39;t magic: they& #39;re what happens when you do this incredibly thoughtfully and intensively for decades!
(Well, actually, maybe that is the magic! They& #39;re fun to watch!)
(Well, actually, maybe that is the magic! They& #39;re fun to watch!)
