Moonwalking With Einstein

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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
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页数:320
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出版时间:2011-3-3
价格:USD 26.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781594202292
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  • 记忆 
  • 思维 
  • 科普 
  • 记忆力 
  • 心理学 
  • 美国 
  • 心理 
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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.

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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...  

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I didn't believe the memory tricks mentioned in this book can make me remember a deck of cards in 10 minutes, until I tried it. It's SO EASY! I have practiced the trick with poker cards for a few days, and now, to be quite honest, I am a little bored. Don't...  

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买《与爱因斯坦月球漫步》这本书已经忘记了是谁的推荐了,已经记不住是什么时候加入到我的GTD阅读清单的,在去北京出差时带上了这本书,前4章介绍了许多故事和记忆的原理,快速翻到第5章开始阅读,随着作者一起开始记忆的练习,相当神奇,书中的15件风马牛不相及的物品,我竟然...  

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I didn't believe the memory tricks mentioned in this book can make me remember a deck of cards in 10 minutes, until I tried it. It's SO EASY! I have practiced the trick with poker cards for a few days, and now, to be quite honest, I am a little bored. Don't...  

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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。

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不知读了后可以多背些诗吗

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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。

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童年偶像 Bill Gates 推荐的。

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童年偶像 Bill Gates 推荐的。

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