Competing in memory competitions is very exciting for me. Every year in March Tony Dottino hosts the USA Memory Championship in New York City. I first competed in this tournament in 2008 after returning from my deployment to Afghanistan (I was a reservist). I first won the tournament March 7, 2009 and set two national [...]
Ron’s media appearances include: Good Morning America The Pentagon Channel ABC World News Tonight CBS Evening News CBS Early Show Martha Stewart Show FOX and Friends Morning Show on FOX News Canada AM FOX Good Day Dallas Show Great Day Houston Great Day San Antonio The Discovery Channel Good Morning Texas DFW Close Up (Channel [...]
Are you looking for a speaker for your next conference? Ron has delivered his crowd pleasing talk in almost every US State and countries that include Canada, Spain, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Belgium, Spain, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Australia to name a few. Ron will memorize up to 200 names before he walks on stage [...]
I had picked TC up at his hotel earlier in the day as he was visiting my town of Dallas/Fort Worth. After a few hours of driving he pointed out the window and stated, ' That is where a lake is right?' There was no way that he could have seen the lake and I [...]
You are at the bottom of an eight foot pool with a tank, breather and fins. It is pool camp at BUDS or the pool competency segment of BUDS. The pool competency is to the dive phase what hell week is to the first phase. Hell week is five days - Sunday through Friday night. [...]
If you described a SEAL as hard, he would take that as a compliment and most likely agree. Hard in terms of being a SEAL means that he is strong mentally and refuses to accept mediocrity. He has attained a level of mental toughness grasped by only a few. His mind views pain as weakness [...]
As a SEAL you will find yourself in frigidly cold waters, muddy grass that you will call a bed or jogging with enough weight in gear that would halt the legs of mere mortals to a crawl. In BUDS, the difference between the men who will become SEALS and those who will ring the bell [...]
Doing Crossword Puzzles May Help Delay Alzheimer's Onset More good news for those who like to do crossword puzzles: A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that mentally challenging activities like word games, playing cards, reading and writing may delay the rapid memory loss that occurs with Alzheimer's disease. The study involved [...]
To begin with, not everything that's novel or new provides the kind or strength of nerve cell stimulation that is necessary to activate new brain circuits and enhance neurotrophin production. For example, if you normally write with a pen and one day choose to write everything in pencil, you've broken your routine and are doing something new. So, in some small way, you've changed the patterns of activity in the parts of your brain activated by touching. But such a small change wouldn't recruit new sensory associations important enough to engage the circuitry required to really exercise your brain.
I have often described the sport of memory as something similar to learning a new language. I have pictures for every number from 1-1000. I essentially memorized them through route memorization. It would be equivalent of learning 1000 new words in a new language and that is exactly what it is! The language of memor
