On average people squander forty days annually compensating for things they’ve forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of them. But after a year of memory training he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. In Moonwalking with Einstein he draws on cutting-edge research a surprising cultural history of memory and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering.
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On average people squander forty days annually compensating for things they’ve forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of them. But after a year of memory training he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. In Moonwalking with Einstein he draws on cutting-edge research a surprising cultural history of memory and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering.