Sunday, 12 July 2020

AMAZING MINDS

In my lifetime I came across with few persons with amazing  minds which I  admired all my life. I am reading the book PEAK of  Anders Erricsson where he made a deep research about very cleaver persons and also organized experiments whether an advance skill can be obtained by intentional practice. 

First I would like to tell you about the persons that I met personally with extraordinary minds.

Charli is a school friend of mine . He was a year ahead of me . He used to play guitar and sing quite well although music remained just as a hobby all his life. He still can play and sing you long hours without any kind of paper and notes in front. He is able to memorize all the lyrics , chords and the tones of the songs he likes.
Surely he is putting some efforts to learn it by heart but afterwards he is unbelievable.

My wife used to work in a bank. She had such a good memory that
all the clients and their accounts were in her mind all the time. One day she had a phone call from a distant branch in a different city of his bank . A client of her was requesting to retrieve an important amount of money through this branch. My wife immediately started to describe on the phone the traits of her client. Sure the applicant was not him but a swindler and his ID was fake. He was captured and sent to jail.

I joined a trekking group by the intervention of a good friend of my. Izmir is surrounded by many mountains ranging from 1500 to 2500 m high. Even we were doing the same route to the same peak I was never aware of the direction we had to take while the the guide in front was like wandering in the center of a city. The map and compass was embedded in his mind.

Avram Aji
12.07.2020

My wife and I were dining at a fancy restaurant in Izmir when a group of youngsters arrived and sat just across from our table. There were ten of them. After a while, the waiter came to take their orders. These ten individuals separately ordered different menus and drinks. The waiter simply listened without taking the tiniest note. I remained quite puzzled and finally dared to ask our waiter how he was able to instantly memorize the orders of ten different people. He replied, "This waiter is exceptionally skilled at memorization."

20.09.2023


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