JOSHUA FOER - Moonwalking with Einstein

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Adult Event

Start: 03/08/2012 7:00 pm

Bestselling Author
JOSHUA FOER
will speak & sign
Moonwalking with Einstein:
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.

Moonwalking with Einstein made a big splash when it first hit shelves. It was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller; a New York Times Notable Book; and named a Best Book of 2011 by The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Salon.com. We're thrilled to bring Joshua Foer to Austin to discuss this fascinating look at the human mind.

On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. But in this age of devices smarter than we are, who really needs to remember anything anymore, right? In his acclaimed book, Joshua Foer chronicles his bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering.

Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering.Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories, and finds himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, he finds a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

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