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Moonwalking with Einstein : the art and science of remembering everything / Joshua Foer.

By: Foer, Joshua.
New York : Penguin Books, 2012Description: 307 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780143120537.Subject(s): Mnemonics | Memory | MemoryGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 153.1/4
Contents:
The smartest man is hard to find -- The man who remembered too much -- The expert expert -- The most forgetful man in the world -- The memory palace -- How to memorize a poem -- The end of remembering -- The ok plateau -- The talented tenth -- The little rain man in all of us -- The US memory championships.
Summary: Having achieved the seemingly unachievable-- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion-- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-297) and index.

The smartest man is hard to find -- The man who remembered too much -- The expert expert -- The most forgetful man in the world -- The memory palace -- How to memorize a poem -- The end of remembering -- The ok plateau -- The talented tenth -- The little rain man in all of us -- The US memory championships.

Having achieved the seemingly unachievable-- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion-- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.

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