A review by ekenney16
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

5.0

Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein is an extremely interesting and powerful look at the human capacity for both memory and expertise in general. What began as a journalistic experiment in improving his average memory led Foer to spend a year mastering memory techniques from both modern times and Cicero’s age; at the end of the year, he attended the U.S. Memory Championship… and won. From this engagingly well-written read, I learned how to improve my memory (if I so desired), that I actually can, as a human born with regular intelligence, become a memory champion (if I so desired), and that Foer’s philosophy on what remembering really is can be applied in my daily life. And what I truly took away from his book was not anything related to memory, but instead related to mindfulness, determination, and breaking past the “OK plateau”. Don’t know what that is? Well, you haven’t read the book then, have you? Or maybe you have… and you’ve forgotten.