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2. Joshua Foer - Wikipedia

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   The book describes his journey throughout the world of competitive memory and attempts to delineate the capacity of the human mind. [7] He received a $1.2 million advance for the book. [2] Film rights were optioned by Columbia Pictures shortly after publication. [8] The book was a finalist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science ...

3. Method of loci - Wikipedia

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   The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, journey method, memory spaces, or mind palace technique. This method is a mnemonic device adopted in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium , Cicero 's De Oratore , and Quintilian 's Institutio Oratoria ).

4. Memoir - Wikipedia

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   This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs were like "memos", or pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing, which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on. The Sarashina Nikki is an example of an early Japanese memoir, written in the Heian period.

5. Richard Rodriguez - Wikipedia

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   His first book, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, was published in 1982. It was an account of his journey from being a "socially disadvantaged child" to becoming a fully assimilated American, from the Spanish-speaking world of his family to the wider, presumably freer, public world of English.

6. Moonwalking with Einstein - Wikipedia

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   Foer describes his book as participatory journalism in the world of competitive memorization and attempts to delineate the capacity of the human mind. He sets out to investigate the underpinnings of those with enhanced memory, soon finding himself at the 2005 U.S. Memory Championship.

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