This book is about the author Joshua Foer trying to improve his memory for american memory competitions and joining the league of top mental athletes.
He shares interesting ways to retain numbers, cards and abstract things like poetry in memory. Discusses some of the ways like memory palace and how visualizing helps in retaining information. Also analyzes fascinating ideas about memory and how it affects different people, society, our educational system.
He finally finishes the book with asking the question whether a impressive memory will be useful anywhere outside the competitions held for mental athletes and it is definitely a question worth pondering about
“memory is primarily an imaginative process. In fact, learning, memory, and creativity are the same fundamental process directed with a different focus,” says Buzan. “The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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