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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... →
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... →
There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make the most of that time... →
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's... →
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that... →
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages... →
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and... →
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the... →
The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more... →
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of... →
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's... →
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with... →
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... →
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