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What Do You Remember?
“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games.
I'm realizing how terrible one's memory truly is. Without documenting life, it's painfully easy to forget so many important moments. This is important because we so often lean on other's memories/stories - autobiographie... See more
Our memories are always with us, shaping and being shaped by the information flowing through our senses, in a continuous feedback loop.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. “To think,” Borges writes, “is to forget.”
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Benedict Carey • 1 highlight
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How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
