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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頁數:320
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出版時間:2011-3-3
價格:USD 26.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9781594202292
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圖書標籤:
  • 記憶 
  • 思維 
  • 科普 
  • 記憶力 
  • 心理學 
  • 美國 
  • 心理 
  • 英文原版 
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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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在2011年,美国口碑最好的一本书是乔舒亚·福尔的《与爱因斯坦月球漫步》。福尔本人的经历颇为传奇,出身标准书香门第的他(其父亲乃是咨询公司的总裁,母亲乃是智库的总裁,两位哥哥一人是《新共和》杂志的编辑,一人是知名小说家)本人继承了家族的良好基因,从耶鲁大学毕业...  

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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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It is a little hard for a Chinese reader to go through this book for I only have a limited vocabulary and I should often reach for my dictionary to look up every unfamiliar word that I came across. I tried to use the technique mentioned in this book to at ...  

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It is a little hard for a Chinese reader to go through this book for I only have a limited vocabulary and I should often reach for my dictionary to look up every unfamiliar word that I came across. I tried to use the technique mentioned in this book to at ...  

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