When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of… — 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
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
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
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like… — 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
There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make… — 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
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I’m working on expanding subjective time so that it feels like I live longer,” Ed had mumbled to me on the sidewalk… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Without time, there would be no need for a memory. But without a memory, would there be such a thing as time?… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one… — 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
