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.
发表于2024-11-02
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本文原发于 南方都市报 2012-05-06 南方阅读 说起来,恐怕不少中国学生都是记忆大师。回顾一下大学之前的生活,我们不少人经历过一周不止一次考试日,一次考上六门功课的生活。上一个小时你还在做汉字正音,下一个小时开始答写地质年代。我们也算是热衷记忆的民族,全国都有...
评分关于记忆这件事,曾经是我最为恼火和头疼的问题。凡是从学生时代走多来的人,有几个没有被记忆这件事烦恼过呢? 一个个的单词,一段段的要点,一篇篇的长文…… 想要一字不差完整的背下来咋就这么难呢?为啥有的人就看啥记住啥,甚至连圆周率那毫无规律可言的数字都能够一背成...
评分1 为什么小孩觉得时间过的慢,年纪越大越觉得时间飞逝? 从前我记得说法是因为刚刚过去的时间段跟全部人生相比,占的比例不一样所以perception不同。 这本书的说法是记忆里面的anchor point越多,(过的愉快拉,生活新鲜花样多拉)越觉得慢。小孩看见东西净是新鲜的,所以觉...
评分http://user.qzone.qq.com/29305569/infocenter#!app=2&via=QZ.HashRefresh&pos=1374420873 《与爱因斯坦月球漫步》——[美]福尔(Joshua Foer) 0、前言 你很难做到不去喜欢一个为了写记忆,而去写怎样研究鸡屁股的人。同样,对一本亲身经历1年,写作3年,参考了147本书的...
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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.
先翻了结尾。作者虽然经过艰苦联系可以提高某些方面记忆能力,但是对于日常生活的作用其实有限。不过书是非常非常可读的。participatory journalism 的确好看啊,真实不错的职业。
评分十年前翻过利玛窦的记忆宫殿那本书,觉得神乎其神,怎么也想象不出这种记忆术是怎么work的,现在终于明白了,最近背单词时会有意识的运用这种方法,但感觉用起来很困难,真正掌握大概需要很长时间。
评分说出一些建立记忆宫殿的技巧,很有用处。
评分近年来读过最有趣的一本畅销书。大约是亲历亲为的缘故,再加上作者在书中也十分坦诚地记录下训练期间的纠结,道德上的困扰。相对其他七拼八凑讲故事或捏造伪科学理论的畅销书作家,更为真挚平实。
评分童年偶像 Bill Gates 推荐的。
Moonwalking With Einstein 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书