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The Craft of Memory Podcast
Ronald Johnson
41 episodes
6 days ago
Ronald Johnson is the host of the Craft of Memory Podcast, mnemonist, and memory coach. If interested in 1:1 memory lessons, please email: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com. On this podcast, you may expect to find detailed lessons on mnemonics such as the memory palace, number and phonetic systems, the link method, and more. There will also be occasional discussions with authors on technology and society as it relates to natural memory and mnemonics, and interviews with memory athletes on their techniques and training routines for national and international memory competitions.
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Ronald Johnson is the host of the Craft of Memory Podcast, mnemonist, and memory coach. If interested in 1:1 memory lessons, please email: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com. On this podcast, you may expect to find detailed lessons on mnemonics such as the memory palace, number and phonetic systems, the link method, and more. There will also be occasional discussions with authors on technology and society as it relates to natural memory and mnemonics, and interviews with memory athletes on their techniques and training routines for national and international memory competitions.
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The Craft of Memory Podcast
On Spiritual Formation, Beauty, and the Surprising Joy of Memorizing Job w/ Ellie Wiener

In this episode, we discuss Ellie Wiener's journey in memorizing the entire book of Job in Hebrew. She is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, completing her dissertation on the Old Testament book of Job. Passionate about exploring how the Old Testament provides the critical context for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be breathtakingly beautiful and compelling for lived faith, she loves to teach the Bible at home and abroad. When not delighting in some feature of Hebrew grammar, she might be found sharing a meal with friends or going for a walk in the woods.


READ ELLIE'S SUBSTACK Substack: Compulsively Contemplative

Contact: emw78@cam.ac.uk

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9 months ago
34 minutes 44 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Memory Techniques w/ Tenuun Tamir (2023 World Memory Champion)

In this episode, I speak with 2023 World Memory Champion, Tenuun Tamir on memory techniques, systems, and training for classical competitions.

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1 year ago
43 minutes 29 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Memory in Medieval Culture w/ Dr. Kimberly Rivers

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Kimberly Rivers, professor of history and author of “Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice” In this episode, we talk about memory in the middle ages, and some of the mnemonics they would have used.


Dr. Kimberly Rivers

PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS

  • Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice: Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages
  • Doležalová, Lucie, Michal Dragoun, and Kimberly Rivers. Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia: The Case of Crux de Telcz (1434-1504). Prague medieval studies, 1. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2021.  

PUBLICATIONS–REFEREED ARTICLES

  • Kimberly Rivers, “Johannes Sintram as Scribe.” In Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia: The Case of Crux de Telcz (1434-1504), by Lucie Doležalová with contributions by Michal Dragoun and Kimberly Rivers. Prague Medieval Studies, 1. Prague: Krem, 2021.
  • “How a Franciscan Preacher Memorized the Decretals in the Later Middle Ages: Johannes Sintram’s Mnemonic Diagram.” Submitted to volume Memory in the Middle Ages, edited by Lucie Doležalová and Jan Čermák
  • “The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450).” In The Medieval Franciscans and the Virgin Mary, ed. Steven J. McMichael (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 392-409.
  • "Composition and Career: The Composite Manuscripts of Johannes Sintram, O.F.M.," in Late Medieval Personal Miscellanies, ed. Sabrina Corbellini, Giovanna Murano and Giacomo Signore (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 145-159.
  • “Learning and Remembering Canon Law in the Fifteenth Century: The Ars et doctrina studendi et docendi of Juan Alfonso de Benavente,” in From Learning to Love: Schools, Law, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of Joseph W. Goering, ed. Tristan Sharp in collaboration with Isabelle Cochelin, Abigail Firey, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Giulio Silano (Toronto: PIMS Press, 2017), 266-290.
  • “Mythography and the Virtues and Vices,” Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism (CMLC) 159 (2014): 281-97. [Reprint of Chapter 7: France, Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice (Turnhout: Brepols Press, 2010).
  • “Remembering Canon and Civil Law around 1400,” Nottingham Medieval Studies: Inventing a Path. Studies in Medieval Rhetoric in Honour of Mary Carruthers 56 (2012): 265-80.
  • “Memory and History in the Middle Ages,” in Writing the History of Memory, ed. Stefan Berger and William Niven (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 47-64.
  • "Creating the Memory of God in a Medieval Miscellany: Melk MS 1075, Jean de Hesdin (fl. 1350-1370), and Late Medieval Monastic Reform," in Medieval Manuscript Miscellanies: Composition, Authorship, Use, ed. Lucie Doležalová and Kimberly Rivers (Krems: Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 2013), 112-38.
  • “Writing the Memory of the Virtues and Vices in Johannes Sintram’s (d. 1450) Preaching Aids,” in The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages, ed. Lucie Doležalová (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 32-48.
  • The Dangers of the Imagination: Mental Images in Mnemonic Texts, 1300-1700,” in Image Makers and Image Breakers: Proceedings of a St. Michael’s College Symposium (1-2 March 2002), ed. Jennifer A. Harris (New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 2003), 93-107.
  • “The Fear of Divine Vengeance: Mnemonic Images as a Guide to Conscience in the Late Middle Ages,” in Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), 66-91.
  • Introduction to and translation of memory section of Francesc Eiximenis’ Ars praedicandi for The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, ed. Mary Carruthers and Jan Ziolkowski (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 189-204.
  • “Memory, Division, and the Organization of Knowledge in the Middle Ages,” in Pre-modern Encyclopaedic Texts, edited by Peter Binkley (Leiden: Brill, 1997), 147-158.
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1 year ago
35 minutes 55 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Mental Math and Mnemonics w/ Daniel Timms

In this episode, I speak with mental math coach, Daniel Timms who has competed in major international mental math competitions, won various awards, developed new methods and training systems, helped organize the Junior Mental Calculation World Championships, and has led many workshops about Mind Sports. We discuss how mnemoncis can be used of mnemonics in mental math and compare memory sports and mental math training routines.

Daniel Timms

  • Website: https://worldmentalcalculation.com
  • Mental Math Coaching: If interested in 1:1 mental math coaching, please contact him at admin@worldmentalcalculation.com


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1 year ago
53 minutes 36 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
How He Memorized the Entire English Collins Dictionary w/ Jonas Wiberg

In this episode, I speak with Jonas Wiberg, street performer and memory expert. We discuss the techniques and review systems he used to memorize the entire English Collins School dictionary.


Jonas Wiberg

  • www.jonaswiberg.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/jonaswiberg


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1 year ago
1 hour 32 minutes 12 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Memory Training w/ Juri Najjar (Arabian Memory Champion)

In this episode, I speak with Juri Najjar, Arabian Memory Champion, about memory training for classical competitions and memory techniques.


Blog: https://thecraftofmemory.substack.com/

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1 year ago
40 minutes 21 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Scripture Memory w/ Brittany Schlichter

In this episode, I speak with Brittany Schlichter. She has a Scripture recitation ministry which you can learn more about at letthewordbeheard.com and has memorized over 20 books of the Bible. In this episode, we talk about memory techniques and her approach to memorizing Scripture.

BRITTANY SCHLICHTER

  • https://letthewordbeheard.com/

NATIONAL BIBLE BEE

  • https://biblebee.org/

1:1 MEMORY COACHING w/ Ronald Johnson

  • Email: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com
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1 year ago
45 minutes 32 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Memory Techniques and Education w/ Douglas Hoff

In this episode, I speak with Douglas Hoff, author of Memory Techniques: A Systematic Analysis of Modern Mnemonics. I highly recommend this book if you want a comprehensive understanding of the art of memory.


1-1 Memory Coaching:

  • If interested in memory coaching, please email me at onlinememorytraining@gmail.com for more details.


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1 year ago
53 minutes 51 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
He Memorized 50 Words in 24.49 Seconds | Q&A w/ Don Michael Vickers

If you would like to support the Craft of Memory, please consider subscribing to my newsletter: https://thecraftofmemory.substack.com In today's episode, I speak with Don Michael Vickers, a Canadian memory athlete. He is especially known as being one of the best in the world at memorizing words. We speak about the memory techniques that he uses and his approach to memory training.


Don Michael Vickers

  • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/dmvmemorytips
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dmvmemory
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@donsmemoryvideos50
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1 year ago
51 minutes 20 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Exploring the Art and History of Note Taking w/ Jillian Hess

In this episode, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Jillian Hess, an English Professor and author of "How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information" published by Oxford University Press. She writes at Noted, a newsletter on Substack where she explores the fascinating history of notebooks and notetaking. What you will discover is that mnemonics and notetaking are very much related as they both deal with the art of organizing information.

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1 year ago
48 minutes 8 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Advanced Memory Palace Techniques w/ Anthony Metivier

In this episode, I speak with Anthony Metivier, memory expert, author, and host of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast.

ANTHONY METIVIER

  • Website: https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/
  • YouTube: https://youtube.com/@AnthonyMetivierMMM
  • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/AnthonyMetivier

THE CRAFT OF MEMORY

  • Blog: https://thecraftofmemory.substack.com
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2 years ago
1 hour 14 minutes 6 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Hannah Arendt on Memory, Thinking, and Solitude w/ Samantha Rose Hill

In this episode, I speak with Samantha Rose Hill, a writer and Hannah Arendt expert on memory, thinking and solitude in the works of Arendt. She has an upcoming book on Arendt's poetry, and is currently writing a book on loneliness which is to be published by Yale University Press. I highly recommend her writing, and for you all to subscribe to her blog which is linked below.

SAMANTHA ROSE HILL

  • Blog: https://samantharosehill.substack.com/
  • Website: https://www.samantharosehill.com/

THE CRAFT OF MEMORY BLOG

  • Blog: https://thecraftofmemory.substack.com
  • Next Essay: Dante, and the Art of Memory in the Divine Comedy

If you haven't already, please consider subscribing to my newsletter, "The Craft of Memory." I publish monthly essays on the history of the memory arts tradition.


SUPPORT THE CRAFT OF MEMORY

A lot of work goes into creating this podcast. If you are enjoying the content, here are some practical ways to show support:

  • Leave a 5-star rating and/or review on Spotify or Apple.
  • Share this podcast with someone you think may be interested in mnemonics.

Thanks for listening!




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2 years ago
1 hour 51 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
How to Use the Memory Palace for Memorizing Entire Books: On Chapter Linking | Lesson #1

In this episode, I discuss how to use the memory palace for memorizing texts verbatim. I explain the various methods for structuring palaces for chapters and how to manage them for easier navigation and retrieval. If you value my teaching and the work that I do, one of the best ways you can show support is by giving this podcast a rating and leaving a review. Every rating encourages me to continue publishing episodes on mnemonics. Thanks for listening!


MEMORY COACHING SERVICES

  • If you are interested in private online memory coaching on how to memorize texts verbatim, please send me an email at onlinememorytraining@gmail.com

THE CRAFT OF MEMORY NEWSLETTER

  • https://thecraftofmemory.substack.com
  • If you want to read my reflections on technology and society as it relates to natural memory and mnemonics, please subscribe to my newsletter.

CONTACT ME

  • I do not have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. If you'd like to reach me, the best way to do so is via email (onlinememorytraining@gmail.com) or through my substack.


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2 years ago
22 minutes 50 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
How to Memorize the Bible w/ Josh Summers of Bible Memory Goal

In this episode, I speak with Josh Summers, founder of Bible Memory Goal and host of the podcast, "Memorize What Matters." We discussed the various methods and techniques for memorizing Scripture, how to approach more challenging texts such as difficult names and cities, memory palace structure and design, and more. 

JOSH SUMMERS

  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BibleMemoryGoal
  • Podcast: Memorize What Matters (Spotify) | Memorize What Matters (Apple Podcasts)
  • Website: https://www.biblememorygoal.com
  • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/biblememorygoal
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2 years ago
36 minutes 24 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Memory Sports and the Rise of the 4-Digit System w/ Simon Reinhard

In this episode, I speak with Simon Reinhard, 2x World Memory Champion (ML), renowned memory athlete and mental performance coach. We discuss memory sports in Germany, the development of his 4 digit number system, phonetics, memory training, how to improve in the names and words discipline, chess mnemonics, and much more. 

SIMON REINHARD

  • 1-1 Coaching / Courses: https://schoolofmemory.com


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2 years ago
1 hour 34 minutes 36 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
How to Prepare for the USA Memory Championship w/ Matthew Wilson

In this episode, I speak with Matthew Wilson, an American memory athlete, professor of economics at the University of Richmond, and finalist in the 2022 USA Memory Championship. We discuss chess mnemonics, techniques for Lumosity, 3 digit and 2 card systems, his memory training routine, how to prepare for USA memory competitions, and more. 

MATTHEW WILSON

  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattSwilson
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2 years ago
38 minutes 37 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
How Artifacts Afford: Reflections on Memory Training Software Design w/ Jenny L. Davis

In this episode, I speak with Jenny L. Davis, a sociologist at the Australian National University  and author of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things. We discuss the concept of affordance, its history, relationship to design, and how it may be considered in the design of memory training software.

SUPPORT THE CRAFT OF MEMORY

  • Leave a rating and/or review. If you value the content of this podcast and would like to express your support and appreciation, please consider leaving a rating and/or review. It helps the podcast grow and makes it easier for listeners to find and benefit from the episodes. The review does not need to be complicated, even one sentence makes a huge difference.

JENNY DAVIS

  • Website: https://www.jennyldavis.com/
  • Book: How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things

RONALD JOHNSON

  • Contact Me: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecraftofmemory
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2 years ago
39 minutes 37 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
How to Memorize Lyrics for Live Performances w/ URL Battle Rapper Loso

In this episode, I speak with Loso, a URL battle rapper who has been ranked in the top 10 worldwide about his life as an artist and some of his techniques for memorizing extensive lyrics for battles and live performances. 

SUPPORT THE CRAFT OF MEMORY

  • Leave a rating and/or review. If you value the content of this podcast and would like to express your support and appreciation, please consider leaving a rating and/or review. It helps the podcast grow and makes it easier for listeners to find and benefit from the episodes. The review does not need to be complicated, even one sentence makes a huge difference.

LOSO

  • Website: www.everythingloso.com
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingloso

RONALD JOHNSON

  • Contact: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecraftofmemory
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2 years ago
1 hour 19 minutes 48 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Advanced Memory Palaces: Insights from Computer Science on Structuring Palaces w/ Joe Reddington

In this episode, I speak Joe Reddington, author of Advanced Memory Palaces and former computer scientist. He has thought deeply on the parallels between computer science and mnemonics an in particular, the various data structures and its relation to memory palaces. I believe he has made an significant contribution to the field. Be sure to purchase his book, it is one of the best works on memory palaces that I have come across. 

SUPPORT THE CRAFT OF MEMORY

  • Leave a rating and/or review. If you value the content of this podcast and would like to express your support and appreciation, please consider leaving a rating and/or review. It helps the podcast grow and makes it easier for listeners to find and benefit from the episodes. The review does not need to be complicated, even one sentence makes a huge difference.

JOE REDDINGTON

  • Book: Advanced Memory Palaces
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.reddington
  • Github: https://joereddington.github.io 

RONALD JOHNSON

  • Contact: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecraftofmemory
  • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/craftofmemory


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2 years ago
53 minutes 23 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Building Habits, Technology and the Dangers of Toxic Productivity w/ Anne-Laure Le Cunff

In this episode, I speak with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs, writer on creative thinking, mindful productivity, and metacognition. We discuss toxic productivity, memory techniques and technology, building habits, note-taking vs. note-making, and much more.

 ANNE LAURE LE CUNFF

  • Ness Labs: https://www.nesslabs.com
  • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/anthilemoon

SUPPORT THE CRAFT OF MEMORY

  • Leave a rating and/or review: If you value the content of this podcast and would like to express your support and appreciation, please consider leaving a rating and/or review. It helps the podcast grow and makes it easier for listeners to find and benefit from the episodes. The review does not need to be complicated, even one sentence makes a huge difference. 

RONALD JOHNSON

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecraftofmemory
  • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/craftofmemory
  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecraftofmemory
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2 years ago
42 minutes 2 seconds

The Craft of Memory Podcast
Ronald Johnson is the host of the Craft of Memory Podcast, mnemonist, and memory coach. If interested in 1:1 memory lessons, please email: onlinememorytraining@gmail.com. On this podcast, you may expect to find detailed lessons on mnemonics such as the memory palace, number and phonetic systems, the link method, and more. There will also be occasional discussions with authors on technology and society as it relates to natural memory and mnemonics, and interviews with memory athletes on their techniques and training routines for national and international memory competitions.