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“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 FoerJoshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
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“If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.”
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“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 spatial memories.”
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“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.”
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“Over the last few millennia, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to outsource this fundamental human capacity.”
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“When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.”
— Joshua FoerJoshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
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