Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet · first published 2006
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I really enjoyed reading about Daniel Tammet and his book (Born on a Blue Day) is fascinating, but I'd hesitate to describe him as 'ordinary'. He's likely somewhere on the autism spectrum and also has synesthesia which affects his perception of numbers (amongst other things); his…
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on “Ask HN: Good books?” ↗…synaesthesia is - nearly everyone I know has some sort of synaesthesia, even if it's only associating numbers with colors. Yet, it's no where near the viewing-numbers-as-landscapes of Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day or Nabokov's gift with words.
on “Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory” ↗Daniel Tammet has some pretty impressive synaesthetic abilities. From Born on a Blue Day: > I never write anything down when I'm calculating, because I've always been able to do the sums in my head and it's much easier for me to visualise the answer using my synaesthetic shapes than to try…
on “The Girl Who Smelled Pink: Are we are all born with synesthesia?” ↗…visual thinking; thoughts are in patterns instead of photo-realistic pictures. Pattern thinkers see patterns and relationships between numbers. Some of the best descriptions are in Daniel Tammet’s book Born on a Blue Day (Tammet 2006) and in Jerry Newport’s book Mozart and the Whale (Newport et al. 2007). The weak areas in pattern thinkers is usually reading and writing composition." [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/07/05/research-shows...
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