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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1 有用 0065paula 2014-10-20 10:47:42
童年偶像 Bill Gates 推荐的。
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 AMY园 2014-05-17 19:10:30
思考不在于记住什么，而在于选择忘记什么。（我等凡人跟视觉记忆宫殿什么的是没什么缘分了吧……）
0 有用 Ann 2020-02-17 06:43:59
很有意思的一本书，讲的是作者作为一名记者训练记忆力然后参加memory championship的经历，穿插各种历史故事、训练技巧、很多其他人的故事，和为什么memory在现在各种information都在网上的时代还是很重要。最后作者也说，练了这么多，还是会找不到车钥匙忘了车停在哪儿，但这整个训练过程确实很有成就感，是非常empowering的经历。
0 有用 zigreal 2014-05-15 12:24:58
说出一些建立记忆宫殿的技巧，很有用处。
0 有用 VICKY HAN 2023-06-05 11:30:26 上海
给记忆大师去魅了，但书中宫殿的例子还是蛮好玩的，to-do-list，看完书都过了三四天了，还记得里面几样东西，对于我这个看完就忘的的确有点用。
0 有用 SWX 2023-04-19 18:49:46 北京
算是某种古早的mindhack，既然人类大脑极为擅长记地理方位，擅长记录图像，非常不擅长记录文字和清单，那就hack一下让它来帮助记忆文字。最容易记录的反而是清单和一些无意义的扑克牌顺序，最不容易记录的是诗歌，所以我们有了尾韵头韵等方法帮助我们记忆。我发现中国古诗更容易用这套方式记录，因为具体的意象更多，而抽象的概念较少，花了半个小时就记住了以前怎么都记不住的李凭箜篌引，因为李贺太适合这套方法了，... 算是某种古早的mindhack，既然人类大脑极为擅长记地理方位，擅长记录图像，非常不擅长记录文字和清单，那就hack一下让它来帮助记忆文字。最容易记录的反而是清单和一些无意义的扑克牌顺序，最不容易记录的是诗歌，所以我们有了尾韵头韵等方法帮助我们记忆。我发现中国古诗更容易用这套方式记录，因为具体的意象更多，而抽象的概念较少，花了半个小时就记住了以前怎么都记不住的李凭箜篌引，因为李贺太适合这套方法了，意象诡谲且具体，但是前后看不出多少联系性。花了半天记住了中学以来一直尝试记住，但是最多停留在始是新承恩泽时这句上的长恨歌。作者说得没错，知道了诀窍之后就有点像作弊。 (展开)
0 有用 dlf 2022-11-06 06:42:12 美国
很多年前听过一遍，最近没有书可以听又拿出来听了一遍，还是很有意思。发现我喜欢看的书大多都有deliberate training这么一个主题。大概因为自己没有什么天分，唯一可以使上劲的就是努力了
0 有用 TimSay 2022-10-30 14:00:34 美国
很有意思的一本关于 记忆 以及 如何记忆 的书。希腊文课老师推荐的 希望我们可以更好的学习希腊文 😆
0 有用 猫和基金的侍者 2022-06-26 13:03:55
小说的阅读体验，工具书的阅读收获