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发表于2024-05-02
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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.
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.
作者本人也说,记忆法是all sound and dury, signifying nothing。但从写书者角度来说,此书写的如此风趣,又有诸多关于记忆的知识和讨论,实属不易,内容和可读性结合的非常好,所以还是上升0.5星好了。
评分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。
评分Joshua Foer做为一个记者,通过一年训练能够获得全美记忆冠军,这本身说明人的记忆力是有很大的提升的,只是绝大部分人都没意识到,以及没得到足够的训练。你的记忆力怎么样,你记住了些什么东西,你怎么记的等造就了你之所以为你,简而言之,你的本质就是你的记忆。
评分很有意思的一本书,讲的是作者作为一名记者训练记忆力然后参加memory championship的经历,穿插各种历史故事、训练技巧、很多其他人的故事,和为什么memory在现在各种information都在网上的时代还是很重要。最后作者也说,练了这么多,还是会找不到车钥匙忘了车停在哪儿,但这整个训练过程确实很有成就感,是非常empowering的经历。
评分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。。。
在书的尾声, Joshua批判性的审视了记忆法的功利作用:记忆法的短见是把记忆本身当做目的,比如参加American Memory Champion,3分钟背出150位无关联的数字。这样的记忆法是没有任何实用性的,尽管在比赛中得了冠军,在生活中还是会习惯性的忘记重要的事情。不过,把眼光放长远...
评分 评分假期刚开始时,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...
评分Moonwalking With Einstein pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024