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feat: something that is an impressive achievement, because it needs a lot of skill, strength etc. to do
treatise: a serious book or article about a particular subject
savant: someone who knows a lot about a subject 
scintillating: intersting, clever, and amusing
1. how did new technologies change us?
they made easier for us to externalise our memories
they changed us cognitively and culturaly
2. what did the University College of London want to find out by gathering 'memory champions'?
are they smarter?
3. what did they find out about the controlled subjects?
they were not smarter 
4. what was Ben Pridmore trying to achieve?
memorize the sequence of 4140 binary digits in 30 minutes
5. what is 'elaborative encoding'?
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6- what is the baker / baker paradox?
'baker' name means nothing, lacking context
7- what does the baker/baker paradox prove?
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8- what is the idea behind the ' memory palace'?
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iii match the terms with their explanations
SAT: examinations that students in schools in England and Wales take at the ages of 7, 11 and 14.
edifice:  a building, especially a large one
orator: someone who is good at making speeches and persuading people.
innate: a quality or ability or something you are born with
raunchy: intended be sexually exciting, in a way that seems immoral or shocking.
9- how did Roman orators remember their speeches?
topic by topic ( topos) 
10- what does the phrase 'in the first place' refer to?
in the first place of your memory palace
11- what is the greatest enemy for the competitive memorizers' concentration?
distraction
12- we remember better when we:
pay attention 
are deeply engaged
experience and figure out why it is meaningful for us
13- according to the speaker, what do you need to do in order to live a memorable life?
be the kind of person who 'remembers to remember.'
14- what does it mean?
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15- what is the main point of the talk?
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