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Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused. — Joshua Foer

You work now so you can rest later," he told the student. "You carry your books now so someone else can carry your books later. — Joshua Foer

In a sense, the elaborate system of externalized memory we've created is a way of fending off mortality. — Joshua Foer

I decided to make memorizing a part of my daily routine. Like flossing. Except I was actually going to do it. — Joshua Foer

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it. — Joshua Foer

We can only think about roughly seven things at a time. — Joshua Foer

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits. — Joshua Foer

Sometimes I'd take off my earmuffs and memory goggles and turn around to discover that my father had been standing in the doorway, just watching me. — Joshua Foer

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

paradox - it takes knowledge to gain knowledge - is — Joshua Foer

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. — Joshua Foer

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book. — Joshua Foer

We don't remember isolated facts; we remember things in context. — Joshua Foer

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches. — Joshua Foer

Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing. — Joshua Foer

Junk food in: junk brain. Healthy food in: healthy brain, he said. — Joshua Foer

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older. — Joshua Foer

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face. — Joshua Foer

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes. — Joshua Foer

Students need to learn how to learn. First you teach them how to learn, then you teach them what to learn. — Joshua Foer

Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard. — Joshua Foer

The brain best remembers things that are repeated, rhythmic, rhyming, structured, and above all easily visualized. — Joshua Foer

Somewhere in your mind there's a trace from everything you've ever seen. — Joshua Foer

We all have remarkable capacities asleep inside of us. If only we bothered ourselves to awaken them. — Joshua Foer

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. — Joshua Foer

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend. — Joshua Foer

The secret to improving at a skill is to retain some degree of conscious control over it while practicing - to force oneself to stay out of autopilot. — Joshua Foer

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. — Joshua Foer

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful. — Joshua Foer

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. — Joshua Foer

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence? — Joshua Foer

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember. — Joshua Foer

I believe that they who wish to do easy things without trouble and toil must previously have been trained in more difficult things, — Joshua Foer

Who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember. — Joshua Foer

To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. — Joshua Foer

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