🕳 Three Intriguing Facts
- This book has nothing to do with Albert Einstein
- No part of this book is set on the moon
- No one is walking in this book, at least not on the moon
🏔️ Three Sentences Book Summary
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Because I stumbled across an excerpt on an SAT practice exam
- The title mentioned one of my favourite scientists
- As part of my research for SCLS presentation / workshop about memory
- I was searching for good ways to quickly memorise thousands of french words
📥 Acquisition of wisdom
- If something is wanted to be remembered well, convert them into images, space, animations, and make connections.
- Learning, creating, and memorising are fundamentally the same thing, in some sense.