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Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer | Includes Analysis
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 19 mins
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Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer | Includes Analysis
Moonwalking with Einstein recounts author Joshua Foer's yearlong journey from participant-journalist covering the national memory championships to becoming the 2006 USA World Memory Champion. Other segments offer a journalistic history of the human relationship with memory, addressing its failings, its successes, and its limitations.
Most people operate according to a series of misconceptions about human memory. Above all, many believe that they have an average brain and are therefore incapable of performing mental feats such as swiftly memorizing a deck of playing cards shuffled into random order. This belief, however, is false. Memory champions are no smarter than anyone else and have unremarkable brains from a biological standpoint. The difference is in how memory champions use their brain. They employ techniques and training to overcome shortcomings that are hard-wired into the human brain anatomy. Even those who appear to possess a photographic memory likely do not, and are instead employing other memorization techniques.
PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book.
Inside this Instaread summary of Moonwalking with Einstein:
- Overview of the book
- Important people
- Key takeaways
- Analysis of key takeaways