...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we…

Joshua Foer
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...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.
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Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it. ✨ Joshua Foer (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, p.61, Penguin
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. To think, Borges writes, is to forget. ✨ Joshua Foer (2011). Moonwalking … ▶
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. ✨ Joshua Foer (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, p.23, Penguin
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're … ▶
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex. ✨ Joshua Foer (2011). Moonwalking … ▶

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