One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Over the last few millennial, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by …… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older. — Joshua Foer Copy Share
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
“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… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
“One book, printed in the Heart’s own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stacks.” — Joshua Foer Copy Share
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
“Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.” — Joshua Foer Copy Share
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful. — Joshua Foer Copy Share
“As the historian Jocelyn Penny Small pointed out, GODISNOWHERE comes out a lot differently when rendered as GOD IS NOW HERE versus GOD IS… — Joshua Foer Copy Share
