Joshua Foer Quotes

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between "learning" and "memorizing" is false, Matthews contends. You can't learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can't memorize without learning.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.