Book Recommendation:
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer is a narrative nonfiction book about a journalist who immerses himself in the world of “memory athletes” and trains his own memory from ordinary to championship level in about a year. Along the way, he explains how human memory works, explores the history and science of memorization, and demonstrates classic techniques like the memory palace and vivid imagery to show that most impressive feats of memory rely on learnable strategies rather than extraordinary brains.
About the author
Joshua Foer is an American journalist and author best known for his bestselling book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, which chronicles his journey to becoming the 2006 USA Memory Champion. A Yale graduate who has written on science and culture for outlets such as National Geographic and The New York Times, he is also the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, a project devoted to cataloguing the world’s curious and hidden places.
