Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.
On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found h...
Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.
On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories.
Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination-showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity.
Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental athletes-across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he meets an affable old man with one of the most severe case of amnesia on record, where he learns that memory is at once more elusive and more reliable than we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets with a savant who claims to have memorized more than nine thousand books. At a high school in the South Bronx, he finds a history teacher using twenty- five-hundred-year-old memory techniques to give his students an edge in the state Regents exam.
At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memories obsolete, Foer's bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds.
作者简介
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Joshua Foer was born in Washington, DC in 1982 and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Dinah. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world’s wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the architectural design competition, S...
Joshua Foer was born in Washington, DC in 1982 and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Dinah. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world’s wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the architectural design competition, Sukkah City. Moonwalking with Einstein is his first book.
目录
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One The Smartest Man is Hard to Find 3
Two The Man Who Remembered Too Much
Three The Expert Expert 49
Four The Most Forgetful Man in the World 69
Five The Memory Palace 89
Eight The Ok Plateau 163
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One The Smartest Man is Hard to Find 3
Two The Man Who Remembered Too Much
Three The Expert Expert 49
Four The Most Forgetful Man in the World 69
Five The Memory Palace 89
Eight The Ok Plateau 163
Nine The Talented Tenth 187
Ten The Little Rain Man in All Of US 211
Eleven The USA Memory Championship 237
Epilogue 259
Acknowledgments 273
Notes 275
Bibliography 289
Index 299
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每天要花一个多小时在公交车上，看paper什么的又觉得比较悲催，于是想找本稍微不那么娱乐的书来看看。这本moonwalking with Einstein是Amazon的年度non-fiction十大，写作者的一个独特的亲身经历：从一个采访美国记忆锦标赛的普通记者到成为这项赛事的冠军。在叙事的过程中穿插...
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0 有用 c h l 2013-05-03 23:50:41
所以我之所以记性奇差、撂爪就忘，是因为我对生活不够热爱！且缺乏基情！且没有mindfulness！我磨损得太厉害了，人家用一双充满好奇的眼睛四处挖掘mind palace素材的时候，我只能由于疲劳过度在地铁上睡过站。。。
0 有用 蝉 2013-12-26 14:18:50
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0 有用 [已注销] 2011-07-23 22:24:58
很多与记忆有关的知识，不过很遗憾作者没有回答一个最重要的问题，既以记忆宫殿法记下的知识在现实中是否有用处。
1 有用 0065paula 2014-10-20 10:47:42
童年偶像 Bill Gates 推荐的。
0 有用 我算哪块小饼干 2012-07-15 09:29:28
#benvxp54#非常有趣的一本书，记忆力的提高仅仅代表了你记得更多的东西，不代表你在这方面的技能有所提高了，也不能改变你的创造力。一万小时理论就能成为该领域的专家也只是在你确定自己在这个领域有才能的前提下。创造力跟才能一样，只能唤醒，无法激发。