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#LEBRON JAMES EIDETIC MEMORY CODE#
TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. Memory is a major component of a person’s perceptive ability. It’s the ability to perceive quickly that differentiates these athletes, not necessary the ability to react quickly. Baseball hitters don’t have faster muscle reaction times than normal people, but they generally have exceptionally strong eye sight that lets them recognise the type of pitch and its speed earlier than normal people would. In “The Sports Gene,” the great book about athleticism and genetics, David Epstein writes about the importance of perceptive ability in sports like baseball and tennis.

Reading defences, recognising plays, noting tendencies - all of these things are a matter of memory. It’s easy to see how a good memory could make someone a significantly better player.

#LEBRON JAMES EIDETIC MEMORY FULL#
The article, which you should really read in its entirety, is full of examples of LeBron remembering things with unusual precision on and off the court. Windhorst reports that there’s a third contributing factor: LeBron’s freakishly good memory. It’s assumed that LeBron is so good because of his once-in-a-generation athleticism, combined with a good work ethic. LEBRON JAMES MIGHT have an “eidetic memory” - the closest thing to a photographic memory - according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst. US jobless claims climb for first time in 5 weeks, to 353,000 'It's a tinderbox ready to explode,' one official said.ĮToro says crypto made up 73% of trading commissions in the last quarter, as retail customers dived inĪ flight attendant says she was too exhausted to report a passenger who shoved her when a flight was overbooked: report Australia's largest state hits record-high COVID-19 cases despite weeks of strict lockdown.
