Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Joshua Foer


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Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

Joshua Foer


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We can only think about roughly seven things at a time.

Joshua Foer


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I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?

Joshua Foer

Mots clés talent humanity memory extraordinary-individuals



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A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Joshua Foer

Mots clés memory human-relationships memory-loss



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As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Joshua Foer

Mots clés remembering visual exceptional



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When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Joshua Foer

Mots clés memory association



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...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

Joshua Foer


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Forgotten phone numbers and birthdays represent minor erosions of our everyday memory, but they are part of a much larger story of how we've supplanted our own natural memory with a vast superstructure of technological crutches—from the alphabet to the BlackBerry. These technologies of storing information outside our minds have helped make our modern world possible, but they've also changed how we think and how we use our brains.

Joshua Foer


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Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Joshua Foer


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