Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

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.

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

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

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.

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

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.