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Moonwalking With Einstein

The text delves into the intricacies of memory and the brain's capabilities, exploring various perspectives and studies. It introduces the idea that the brain functions like a muscle, benefiting from memory training much like physical exercise strengthens the body.

Moonwalking With Einstein

Moonwalking with Einstein (chapters 1 and 2/ pages 27-123) Written by Joshua Foer

Tony Buzan (44-57)

"never forget a telephone number or date" book (59)
the brain is like a muscle

Eleanor Maguire (103-108)

visual memory and spatial navigation
mental athletes
brought sixteen taxi drivers into her lab and examined their brains

Journalist S (Introduced on 65)

Condition made him Unempolyable
seeing words as colors or numbers and having a meaning to each word
A never forgetting Alien
the man who remembered too much/ "This man was Unstoppable"

brain- Summary from both Chapters 1 and 2

Penfield came to believe that the brain records everything to which it pays any degree of conscious attention
the brain is a muscle and memory training is a form of a mental workout
a mutable organ capable of neuroplasticity

Williem Wagenaar (81-82)

"in light of this one cannot say that any event was completely forgotten" (82)
photographic memory

Ed Cooke (40-72)

Baker/ Baker Paradox
memory palace
think in more memorable ways

Memory Championship- Chapter 1

Ed Cooke/ Tony Buzan (40, 44)
Ben Pridmore's Memory (33-41)
fifty thousand digits of pi
memorize the order of decks
"highest IQ" (33)
"Worlds smartest person" (32)

Memory- Summary from both Chapters 1 and 2

image memory example
long term and short term
training of the memory
photographic (real or not)