It’s funny how certain things just seem to stick in your memory.
Several years ago I attended a 2 day stock trading seminar in Melbourne. As the course drew to a close the instructor wished us well and to my great surprise - and amusement - presented each of us with one million dollars.
Now unfortunately the million dollars wasn’t real – it was a novelty US Million Dollar Note. But it was a real attention-grabber and I’ll never forget being given my first million.
In fact I’ve still got it and if you’ve ever attended a Gloo Memory/Speed Reading Course you may have heard me offering a million dollar reward to anyone who can beat the current Australian Memory Record by reciting Pi to over 4,400 places without error. Here are a few digits to get you started...
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141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944 592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647 093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559 644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165 2712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412...
Yep, I know it’s bizarre but there really is no limit to what your memory can do – to see what you need to beat click here.
Anyway, people loved the Million Dollar Note so much that that we decided to order several thousand of them to give out at our in-house and public workshops.