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Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein

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  • Release Date: 2016-06-28
  • Genre: Study Aids

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Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer | Includes Analysis
 
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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
 
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