Quotes by Joshua Foer

Joshua Foer

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

Be Creative

Creative

Focused

Sequencing – the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader – matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Book

Essentials

Information

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

Groups

Kings

Three

The best memorizers in the world – who almost all hail from Europe – can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the ‘four-minute mile of memory.’

Cards

Europe

Memories

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we’ll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Book

Impact

Ipads

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

Memories

Order

Two

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Knowing

Mean

Memories

We’ve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they’re failing us.

Digital

Forgotten Things

Memories

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Easier

Firsts

Hook

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

Amount

Important

Want

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Art

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Cards

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Digital

Dozen

Easier

Essence

Essentials

Europe

Eye

Faces

Facts

Firsts

Focused

Forgotten Things

Function

Groups

Growing Up

Heart

Hook

Ideas

Imagine

Impact

Important

Information

Inspiration

Ipads

Jobs

Journey

Kings

Kissing

Knowing

Life Experience

Mean

Memorable

Memories

Might

Motivation

Mouths

Order

Phones

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Quotes by Joshua Foer

Joshua Foer

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

Sequencing – the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader – matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

The best memorizers in the world – who almost all hail from Europe – can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the ‘four-minute mile of memory.’

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we’ll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

We’ve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they’re failing us.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

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