James Altucher interviews Nelson Dellis, six-time USA Memory Champion and author of "Everyday Genius," about how his grandmother’s Alzheimer’s led him to study memory techniques and competitive memory training. Dellis discusses whether mental training could delay Alzheimer’s symptoms, his daily practice using timed drills for cards, numbers, and names, and records such as memorizing 10,000 digits of pi with five-digit “collision” issues. They cover how mnemonic systems turn abstract numbers into vivid, emotional imagery, and how long-term retention requires review rather than cramming. Dellis shares “focus reading” methods (using a pointer, narrowing margins, and selective reading) and note-taking with active recall. The conversation also explores social “genius” skills like cold reading cues, magician-style forcing, and Dellis’s remote viewing training for market prediction, plus out-of-body techniques like the imagined-rope method.
00:00 Alzheimers Spark
01:01 Meet Nelson Dellis
03:12 Training Like Champion
05:10 Everyday Genius Overview
06:57 Pie Digits Explained
11:17 Numbers Into Images
15:16 Genius Is Subjective
19:03 Focus Reading Tools
26:42 Remember What You Read
34:05 Cold Reading Basics
40:21 Reading Social Cues
40:51 How Mentalists Trick
42:55 Forcing Choices Psychology
47:27 Remote Viewing Pitch
53:35 Remote Viewing Results
55:21 Explaining The Woo
57:16 Betting With Intuition
59:32 Out Of Body Methods
01:05:00 Card Counting Reality
01:07:30 Training General Memory
01:11:09 Aging And Competition
01:12:34 Book Wrap And Next
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