What You'll Learn:
The USA Memory Championship is an annual competition held in New York since the early 90s. There are several events, including name-face recall, memorizing long numerical sequences, and remembering the order of shuffled decks of cards. Joshua Foer attended the competition as a reporter one year and a competitor the next. This book details Foer’s unexpected immersion into the world of memory in the intervening year. Through extensive research, interviews on the topics, and training with “mental athletes”, he came to realize anyone can drastically improve their memory, and proved it by winning the USA Memory Championship after only a year of concerted effort.
Read on for key insights from Moonwalking with Einstein.
Key Insights:
- Extraordinary memory is not innate—it is a skill that anyone can learn.
- If you want to improve your memory, you’ll need a palace to store your memories.
- The fundamentals of memory retention used today are contained in a 2000-year-old Latin text.
- Over time, memory and knowledge have become increasingly external to the human mind.
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