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I'm by no means a memory master or competitor but that just proves to show that if a college pre-med student can get this than this is a game changer for you too. Positive emotions tend to enhance memory, while negative emotions can interfere with it.... Read More
It's a story of how the author became interested and - with all the curiosity and tenacity - began training to compete in the memory championship. The author describes his one year journey from a complete naive on memory training to becoming the winne... Read More
Joshua foer is a journalist who has spent a year trying something new. He has written a book on the science of how memory works. The book is part research and part road journey/gonzo journalism.
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I get the feeling this book went directly from the notes jotted in haste on the back of a shopping bag to print. The book jumps from page 132 to 181, then at 228, it goes back to 181 through 228.
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Would pair well with the talent code or just about any malcolm gladwell book
Although he does not go into great detail on these techniques embedding and intertwining them with the story gives enough infor... Read More
In parallel he describes his training for the u
Competitiveness
Interesting story about the authors journey towards entering memory competition
I’m by no means a memory master or competitor but that just proves to show that if a college premed student can get this than t... Read More
Interesting work on memory although i couldnt help but find the description of the methods and practice for competition trainin... Read More
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- This product had a total of 9,925 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 22 2023.
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Necessary thats a huge oversimplification but i dont want to give too many details
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One of the few books that i’ve actually finished
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Not all the methods apply for everyone
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However it was not until the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the scientific study of memory began in earnest
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One of the primary limitations of memory is its tendency to forget
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This is due to decay where memories simply fade over time and displacement where new memories overwrite old ones
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Another limitation of memory is its inability to remember abstract information such as numbers or lists of words without a system for organizing it
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For example a person might associate a name with a face or a fact with a place
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