Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker

In January I posted a documentary about savant,  Daniel Tammett (click here), called the Boy With The Incredible Brain . I recommend you watch the documentary before reading the article below.

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Article Introduction (Via Scientific American)

You may never recite calculations like Rain Man, but you can still learn to improve cognitive performance with advice from this interview with a savant. Daniel Tammet is the author of two books, Born on a Blue Day and Embracing the Wide Sky, which comes out this month. He’s also a linguist and holds the European record for reciting the first 22,514 decimal points of the mathematical constant Pi.  Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Tammet about how his memory works, why the IQ test is overrated, and a possible explanation for extraordinary feats of creativity.

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