How to Boost Your Creativity by Training Your Memory.

How to Boost Your Creativity by Training Your Memory. When you train your memory, you automatically train your creative thinking skills!. Ravi Shankar Rajan Apr 8 Image Credits: unsplash.com Aaron Burden What is common between Pablo Picasso, Johannes Kepler, and Elon Musk? · They are Powerful Innovators. · They are all quick learners and had exceptional memories to process the information across multiple disciplines. And it seems that having an exceptional memory ( read photographic memory ) is somehow linked to having great creative thinking skills. Let us explore further. When the famous saint, Swami Vivekananda, was living in Chicago, USA, he used to go to the library, borrow large volumes of books, take them home and return them the next day. After some time, the librarian became curious and asked him, “ Why do you take out so many books when you can’t possibly read them all in one day?” Swami Vivekananda replied that he read each and every page of every book. The librarian could not believe it, and so Swami Vivekananda asked her to test him. She opened a book, selected a page and paragraph, and asked him to tell her what was written there. Swami Vivekananda repeated the sentence exactly as it was written in the book, without looking at it. The librarian was astounded and did more tests. Each time Swami Vivekananda repeated the exact words written in the book. Later the librarian discovered that Swami Vivekananda had a photographic memory. He did not have to read books. His eyes, his mind, would capture the image on the page, and whenever he wished, he could just recall a book, a page, a sentence. That was the capacity of his brain and mind. That brings us to the pertinent question. Does photographic memory really exist? […]

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