The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember. — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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 sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — 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
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
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember. — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must… — 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
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older. — 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 always present,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“One book, printed in the Heart’s own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stacks.” — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
