Description
What happens inside your brain when you think of the word coffee? A memory is the product of a giant network of connections between neurons in the brain. The human brain contains a hundred billion neurons, each with five to ten thousand interconnected connections between it and other neurons, and what differentiates one memory from another is the pattern and manner of those connections. The author of this book says that when we think of a new idea, or start to remember something, the connections between our neurons change, which causes our brains to change, meaning that the moment you hear that sentence, your brain is physically different from what it was a few minutes ago. When we say a word like “cup of coffee” in a casual conversation, our memory can call up its color, taste, and everything else about it in our mind's eye, completely automatically. At that moment, a succession of electrical charges are transmitted in our brains, between a group of neurons that carry the coffee symbol, along with details about it. That's what neuroscientists have found. This book presents American journalist Joshua Foer's attempts to understand how memory works, its flaws, its types, its hidden potential, its superpowers, and its scalability, and his story of how he decided to train for a whole year to be able to participate in the US Memory Championship. He discovered it by chance, while searching for the smartest person in the world. Foer is a hero who came to knowledge through experience, not just theoretical research. He decided to challenge his abilities and overcome his failures with conscious training, resulting in one of the most beautiful books on the art and secrets of memory. Listen now!
