Meet Alex Mullen, a remarkable individual with exceptional memory abilities. Alex can memorize the exact order of a deck of cards in just 22 seconds and was the first person to ever memorize a 3000-digit number in under an hour. His impressive accomplishments are not attributed to intelligence or unique brain structure, but rather simple techniques that anyone can learn. These techniques are especially effective for language learning.⁣ One of these powerful techniques is the "memory palace" or "