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Joshua Foer Quotes

Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing Picture Quote #1

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn’t, and what its potential might be Picture Quote #1

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches Picture Quote #1

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity Picture Quote #1

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world Picture Quote #1

Once I’d reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone Picture Quote #1

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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens Picture Quote #1

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today Picture Quote #1

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human Picture Quote #1

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who’s who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face Picture Quote #1

We’ve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they’re failing us Picture Quote #1

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you’d never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn’t just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea Picture Quote #1

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Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I’m not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that’s probably more than most Picture Quote #1

Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it’s about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human Picture Quote #1

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it Picture Quote #1

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older Picture Quote #1

... who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember Picture Quote #1

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention? Picture Quote #1

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We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least Picture Quote #1

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend Picture Quote #1

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself Picture Quote #1

The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory Picture Quote #1

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory Picture Quote #1

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits Picture Quote #1

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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 the same thing as wisdom Picture Quote #1

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time Picture Quote #1

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction Picture Quote #1

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Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing (Joshua Foer Quotes) I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn’t, and what its potential might be (Joshua Foer Quotes) Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches (Joshua Foer Quotes) What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity (Joshua Foer Quotes) To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world (Joshua Foer Quotes) Once I’d reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone (Joshua Foer Quotes) One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens (Joshua Foer Quotes) Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today (Joshua Foer Quotes) Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human (Joshua Foer Quotes) Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who’s who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face (Joshua Foer Quotes) We’ve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they’re failing us (Joshua Foer Quotes) If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you’d never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn’t just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea (Joshua Foer Quotes) Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I’m not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that’s probably more than most (Joshua Foer Quotes) Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it’s about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human (Joshua Foer Quotes) The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it (Joshua Foer Quotes) Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older (Joshua Foer Quotes) ... who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember (Joshua Foer Quotes) Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention? (Joshua Foer Quotes) We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least (Joshua Foer Quotes) When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend (Joshua Foer Quotes) To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself (Joshua Foer Quotes) The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory (Joshua Foer Quotes) Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory (Joshua Foer Quotes) The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits (Joshua Foer Quotes) 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 the same thing as wisdom (Joshua Foer Quotes) Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time (Joshua Foer Quotes) Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction (Joshua Foer Quotes)

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