Moonwalking With Einstein

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.

出版者:The Penguin Press

作者:Joshua Foer

页数:320

出版时间:2011-3-3

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594202292

图书标签:记忆思维科普记忆力心理学美国心理英文原版

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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.

读后感

看港剧《读心神探》的时候，有一集讲述某位记忆力高超的女子利用记忆宫殿进行谋杀的故事。什么是记忆宫殿？记忆术是什么？利玛窦是谁？怀着强烈的好奇心，我买了有关记忆术的两本书，其中一本就是《与爱因斯坦月球漫步》。 这本书的作者是乔舒亚•福尔，是2006年美国记忆力...  

假期刚开始时，看到TED上有乔舒亚·福尔的题为“人人都能学会的记忆术”的演讲，正巧那段时间正在看的英剧《神探夏洛克》中的“记忆宫殿”也勾起了我的兴趣，于是决定要翻一翻跟记忆术相关的书籍。 那名TED演讲者乔舒亚·福尔将自己从最初因采访记忆力竞赛而对这一领域感兴趣开...  

看港剧《读心神探》的时候，有一集讲述某位记忆力高超的女子利用记忆宫殿进行谋杀的故事。什么是记忆宫殿？记忆术是什么？利玛窦是谁？怀着强烈的好奇心，我买了有关记忆术的两本书，其中一本就是《与爱因斯坦月球漫步》。 这本书的作者是乔舒亚•福尔，是2006年美国记忆力...  

假期刚开始时，看到TED上有乔舒亚·福尔的题为“人人都能学会的记忆术”的演讲，正巧那段时间正在看的英剧《神探夏洛克》中的“记忆宫殿”也勾起了我的兴趣，于是决定要翻一翻跟记忆术相关的书籍。 那名TED演讲者乔舒亚·福尔将自己从最初因采访记忆力竞赛而对这一领域感兴趣开...  

用户评价

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作者自己的亲身经历，通过训练拿到了记忆大师比赛的冠军。其实记忆一些小无聊东西的窍门到处可以找到，如果被中学地理历史政治折磨过的人恐怕都尝试过，也只是需要有意识的训练和应用而已，并不能把我们变得更聪明啊。但是当我们不需要记忆很多东西的时候就慢慢的开始淡忘这些技能了嘛。不过训练大脑跟训练体能有很多共同之处，所以保持身体健康的同时也要经常训练大脑才对啊。

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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。。。