I Met With Amnesiacs And Savants, Educators

Just As We Accumulate Memories Of Facts By Integrating Them Into A Network, We Accumulate Life Experiences By Integrating Them Into A Web Of Other Chronological Memories. The Denser The Web, The Denser The Experience Of Time.

When We First Hear [a] Word, We Start Putting These Associational Hooks Into It That Make It Easier To Fish It Back Out At Some Later Date.

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 Idling In Front Of Our Computer Screens.

Life Seems To Speed Up As We Get Older Because Life Gets Less Memorable As We Get Older.

The Art And Science Of Memory Is About Developing The Capacity To Quickly Create Images That Link Disparate Ideas. Creativity Is The Ability To Form Similar Connections Between Disparate Images And To Create Something New And Hurl It Into The Future So It Becomes A Poem, Or A Building, Or A Dance, Or A Novel. Creativity Is, In A Sense, Future Memory.