🕳 Three Intriguing Facts

1. This book has nothing to do with Albert Einstein
2. No part of this book is set on the moon
3. No one is walking in this book, at least not on the moon

🏔️ Three Sentences Book Summary

1. By evolution, human brains are more capable of remembering space and images than words and numbers because the former is needed for survival in the hunting-gathering period.
2. Spacial and visual image can be employed to remember words and numbers with higher accurately and efficiency given the correct methods, mach of which were already developed in Ancient Greek
3. The author, who is initially a journalist with an average memory, proves that anyone can learn and use these techniques by training himself and winning the US Memory Championship.

🎨 Impressions

🔍 Wherefore this hasty perusal

1. Because I stumbled across an excerpt on an SAT practice exam
2. The title mentioned one of my favourite scientists
3. As part of my research for SCLS presentation / workshop about memory
4. I was searching for good ways to quickly memorise thousands of french words

📥 Acquisition of wisdom

1. If something is wanted to be remembered well, convert them into images, space, animations, and make connections.
2. Learning, creating, and memorising are fundamentally the same thing, in some sense.