Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Kevin Horsely remembered the first 10,000 digits of Pi 🤯 How powerful are our brains?

23 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube segment, Nick Hutchison highlights his friend Kevin Horsley's extraordinary achievement of memorizing the first 10,000 digits of pi, using it as a vivid illustration of human potential. Hutchison explains that Kevin grew up with learning disabilities that made reading difficult, but he later developed powerful attention and retention tools that now allow him to absorb books deeply. Hutchison uses this story to argue that many people still let information slip away after reading, and he promotes his new book, Rise of the Reader, as a source for the retention strategies he learned from Kevin, promising readers ways to truly live the information they consume.

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My friend Kevin Horsley memorized the first 10,000 digits of pi, totally random number. And I like to tell people that because it shows the power of our human potential. Kevin grew up with learning disabilities. He couldn't read books effectively. And now when he reads a book, it sticks in his brain. He's developed these tools for attention that I think are incredibly valuable. So when was the last time you read a book, it went in one ear and out the other? If you'd like to learn some of my favorite retention strategies and even some of the ones that Kevin taught me so that you can live the information that you read, I recommend checking out my brand new release, Rise of the Reader, and I'll share each one with you there.