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

- Joshua Foer

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 …

- Joshua Foer

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…

- Joshua Foer

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.

- Joshua Foer

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…

- Joshua Foer

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.

- Joshua Foer

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

- Joshua Foer

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

- Joshua Foer

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…

- Joshua Foer