Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you sp….

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

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evide….

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..

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

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..

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture….

The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form ….

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

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other ch….

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 ab….

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

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories..

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once aga….

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, ….

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and idea….

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the hum….

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

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

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. T….

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