There are two systems of thought.
System two is the conscious slow effortful system.
And system one is subconscious.
Fast and automatic.
To explore how these systems work in his own head, Grant decided to memorize a hundred digits of pi(π).
- Three eight four four six...
- Then he just kept going.
He has now memorized 23,000 digits of pi(π) in preparation to challenge the north American record. It seems like superhuman...