![]() ![]() You should cultivate an external memory bank, a library of components you can rearrange and reconstruct to your liking and needing. ![]() You should capture the things you might want to later recall. If you are like Lebron James or Paul Simon, if you were born with a gift for recall, you might not need a note-taking system.īut if you are like the rest of us, you should have a notetaking system. ![]() Simon recognizes this to be his gift: “I seem to have a very exact memory of things that I’ve heard-liked and disliked-but very exact,” he says. Everything he creates is largely an amalgamation of bits from his musical memories. Simon’s musicianship is a function of the library of musical components in his head. As Gladwell says, for Simon, “songwriting is the rearrangement and reconstruction of those pleasurable sounds.” He cultivates an archive of sounds he likes that become the building blocks for his own songs. The archive of situations James has in his memory function as reference points to decipher new but analogous game situations, to enable intelligent decisions, to facilitate anticipation.įor Simon, those reference points facilitate his creative output. And thousands more bits of songs-components-which appeared to have been broken down and stacked like cordwood in his imagination.” “There were thousands of songs in his head. “Simon’s memory is prodigious,” Gladwell says. In the way James has precise recall of basketball game situations, Simon has it of sounds and songs. It’s memory.” Gladwell then analogizes James’ exacting memory to Simon’s. “People always say of great athletes that they have a sixth sense,” Malcolm Gladwell says in Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. timeout.” The other reporters in the room laugh. And then Tatum came down and went ninety-four feet, did a Eurostep and made a right-hand layup. Jason Tatum took the ball out, threw it to Marcus Smart in the short corner, he made a three. We came back on the defensive end, and we got a stop. We came back down, we ran a set for Jordan Clarkson. He pauses, seems like he might dismiss the banal question, then perfectly recalls, “The first possession, we ran them down all the way to 2 on the shot clock. What happened? James repeated back to the reporter. After the game, Cavaliers’ star Lebron James was asked about a stretch where the Celtics scored seven straight points. In Game 1 of the 2018 Eastern Conference NBA finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Boston Celtics 108-83. ![]() “The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.” - Goethe
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