Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.