Anthony Metivier's Magnetic Memory Method Podcast

You don’t have a bad memory. I know that statement can be hard to swallow if experience has taught you otherwise. The real problem is that your memory was never trained. And that’s because no one was ever required to teach you how to train it. This fact doesn’t get you off the hook in terms of responsibility for fixing the problem. But it’s one of the most freeing realizations I can share with you when it comes to learning and memory. And it’s an answer I share often when I answer one of the most common questions I receive here at the Magnetic Memory Method Headquarters: “Why aren’t memory techniques taught in schools?” Now, as I’m updating this article in 2026, the question lands with a new feeling of urgency. As AI continues to fill our minds with a mixture of hope and concern, more people than ever before are starting to feel the cost of an untrained memory in ways they never did before. I’ve never seen so many pictures of physical books shared o