The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
Joshua FoerWhen 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 FoerOur lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
Joshua FoerOnce 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 FoerNow more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Joshua Foer