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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... →
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed... →
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
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.
Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a... →
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... →
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... →
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities... →
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... →
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite... →
The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach... →
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