{"id":38743,"date":"2004-06-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/23\/the-only-way-youre-going-to-wake-up-next-to-claudia-schiffer\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T07:00:00","slug":"the-only-way-youre-going-to-wake-up-next-to-claudia-schiffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040623-00\/?p=38743","title":{"rendered":"The only way you&#039;re going to wake up next to Claudia Schiffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic O&#8217;Brien,  world speed-memorization champion, on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2000\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/23\/mind.olympiad\/\">  his technique for memorizing over 18 decks of shuffled cards in an hour<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  &#8220;I remember things by personalising them,&#8221; explains O&#8217;Brien, 43.  &#8220;With playing cards, for instance, I memorise each one as a face.  The queen of hearts I think of as Claudia Schiffer,  the ace of clubs as Nick Faldo.  To get them in sequence I then imagine a journey,  say from home to work, and fit the different people into that journey.  So for example I wake up beside Claudia Schiffer,  get out of bed and trip over Nick Faldo. It&#8217;s very effective.&#8221;   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Welcome to the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msoworld.com\/\">World Mind Sports Olympiad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Other scintillating competitions include  &#8220;memorizing random digits&#8221; and (from 1997)  &#8220;listing as many similarities as you can think of  between the Princess of Wales and an orange.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic O&#8217;Brien, world speed-memorization champion, on his technique for memorizing over 18 decks of shuffled cards in an hour: &#8220;I remember things by personalising them,&#8221; explains O&#8217;Brien, 43. &#8220;With playing cards, for instance, I memorise each one as a face. The queen of hearts I think of as Claudia Schiffer, the ace of clubs as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Dominic O&#8217;Brien, world speed-memorization champion, on his technique for memorizing over 18 decks of shuffled cards in an hour: &#8220;I remember things by personalising them,&#8221; explains O&#8217;Brien, 43. &#8220;With playing cards, for instance, I memorise each one as a face. The queen of hearts I think of as Claudia Schiffer, the ace of clubs as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}