AMAZING 1: MEET EXCEPTIONAL DANIEL TAMMET

Ever been in a class and though you've been the best all along but then comes someone that effortlessly flawed all your standing records dropping you to the second place? Here is someone that can recall almost everything he sees within the day in a jiffy with profound accuracy and precision. He has played one of the toughest game on earth, has performed complex mathematical calculations without the aid of a calculator and even beyond calculator's display has given the value of "pi" to about 2,500 decimal places. He learnt one of the world's toughest language in just a week. Meet Mr. Daniel Tammet (born 31 January 1979), an English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant.
His 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association Young Adult Library Services magazine.

 

HOW IT STARTED

    Tammet had an unusual childhood encounter that turned him extraordinary. It was reported that on a fateful day while he was on the playground with his fellow pupils, he got accidentally hit with a hard stick by a lad probably on the course of playing. That was unfortunate (at that time, a painful experience) but it turned out to be a necessary event that should make Daniel for the rest of his life. He'll never have to forget what the teacher will say or ever struggle to study for exams because, scientifically proven, the part of his brain responsible for vision got intermingled with the cognitive faculty making everything more real to Daniel than any other lad out there today. He can perform many mathematical operation by simply looking into his mind and telling what he sees. Such people as he are known as savants.

      In his mind, Tammet says, each positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, color, texture and feel. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi, though not an integer, as beautiful. The number 6 apparently has no distinct image yet what he describes as an almost small nothingness, opposite to the number 9 which he calls large, towering, and quite intimidating. He also describes the number 117 as "a handsome number. It's tall, it's a lanky number, a little bit wobbly". In his memoir, he describes experiencing a synesthetic and emotional response for numbers and words.