Train Your Memory Through Play | Enrico Marraffa | TEDxMantova Play

Enrico Marraffa, a master's student in mechatronic engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin and a world memory champion, gives a talk at TEDxMantova Play on memory training. He argues that approaching mental exercise as a game rather than a duty makes it more effective. The talk offers a practical look at simple, creative memorization techniques. In 2024, at his first participation, he set a world record by storing over 600 images in 5 minutes.

• Simple and creative memorization techniques
• Treating memory training as a game
• 2024 world record: over 600 images in 5 minutes

E se allenare la memoria fosse soprattutto una questione da affrontare come un gioco? Come dimostra Enrico Marraffa nel suo talk, attraverso tecniche di memorizzazione semplici e creative possiamo ricordare informazioni che altrimenti sembrerebbero impossibili da trattenere. Un viaggio pratico alla scoperta del potenziale della nostra mente, per riscoprire quanto possiamo fare quando smettiamo di vivere l'esercizio come un dovere e iniziamo a viverlo come un gioco. What if training your memory were, above all, a matter of approaching it like a game? As Enrico Marraffa demonstrates in his talk, by using simple and creative memorization techniques, we can retain information that might otherwise seem impossible to hold onto. It is a practical journey into the potential of our own minds—a chance to rediscover just how much we are capable of when we stop viewing mental exercise as a chore and start treating it as a game. Studente magistrale di ingegneria meccatronica al Politecnico di Torino, ha approcciato le tecniche di memorizzazione grazie alla scoperta di un video su YouTube. Enrico è campione mondiale di memoria, titolo che ha vinto già alla sua prima partecipazione nel 2024, quando ha stabilito un record mondiale memorizzando oltre 600 immagini in 5 minuti. Ai più recenti Memory games, nella finale da lui vinta ha memorizzato 80 cifre in 13 secondi e 20 centesimi! A master's student of mechatronic engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin, he approached memorization techniques thanks to the discovery of a video on YouTube. Enrico is a world memory champion, a title he won already in his first participation in 2024, when he set a world record by storing over 600 images in 5 minutes. At the most recent Memory games, in the final he won he memorized 80 digits in 13 seconds and 20 hundredths! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx