Book Reflection: “Moonwalking with Einstein” Joshua Foer did an excellent job on using real world experience to write about his quest to find out as much as he could about memory. He went to competitions, university’s, research labs and many other places to make sure he was ready to reach his goal. A goal that he made when he was intrigued by memory capacity of these seemingly normal people in a memory tournament. Foer an article write, wrote all about his adventure in the book “Moonwalking with Einstein”.
He went into detail of how his fascination with memory started and how he ended up in the finals of the USA Memory Championship. All of this interested me because memory is what makes us who we are all of our life experience help us know who we are and where we came from. And without memory it would be a hard world to live since memory is what keeps us focused on life and what we are doing with it. I learned in this book that our memory is what makes us self-aware and is ever changing thing with unknown limits.
This book caught my attention because of multiple things mainly the reviews, unique title, and topic. When I was looking through the book list I found nothing but books describing the same issue. They all were having issues with the content been repetitive and not much was offered other than the main idea been paraphrased in different ways. So, when I saw the reviews on this book I naturally grew interested especially with the catchy title it has. Also, the topic
Although my interest was lost in certain parts of the book, it did teach me a lot about being successful
I never heard of this book until PRIME. Once I started PRIME I told people about the books I had to read and everyone said that they loved reading this book. Once I heard about the book from a few people I was excited to start reading it. This was probably my favorite book to read so far. This book challenged me to rethink how I go about doing things. As I said before it challenged me to be more bold, and rethink what success meant. It also challenged me to be more persistent. I tend to be a person who if I fail at something I like to go back to something that makes me feel comfortable when the same opportunity comes to
I will recommend this book to everyone because it has elements that I feel most books do not have. It was enjoyable to read because I have had many problems with my father and this book helped me come to a revelation. This book kept me going and all I wanted to do was curl up underneath my covers and read this book. It was such an inspirational tool that will never leave my heart and I will always cherish how it made me feel. I am really excited to read his other book Into the Air. If it is anything like this book, I will love
What Did You Expect To Learn When You Picked Up The Book? To What Extent – And How Effectively – Were Your Expectations Met?
I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested
I wouldn’t recommend this book to the average reader. It is a bit hard to read because the author goes into so much depth that the reader could very often forget the main idea. It is a good, informative book but a bit drawn out.
The book is simple and easy to read. The author has a good use of English language. He uses specific words, therefore making his book highly readable.
It captured my attention from the beginning. I like how the Rand was descriptive words to help me have an image of what was happening in the novel. I like the story line. I like the idea of someone breaking way from everyone else and being different from others. That they are able to think for themselves and that it is ok to be different from others. I also liked how the novel had some romance because I do enjoy romance novels. The Language Police written by Diane Ravitch, I did not quit enjoy the book. I do not really like books like that. I do not recommend this book if you are not interested in how the bias panel chooses stories for children. I do recommend the novel, Anthem. It gives the reader a sense of individualism, there is a story behind
The book starts out strong and extremely informational, slows down extremely in the middle chapters and ends in theory, which is somewhat thought provoking.
In conclusion, “The End of Remembering” basically gives us a big overview of how we learn today. It lets us know that with even all that is available to us we still need to think, remember, read, and write to learn. In the conclusion of this essay Foer writes, “Our memories, the essence of our selfhood, are actually bound up in a whole lot more than the neurons in our brain.” (Foer 175) Foer is trying to remind his readers of the simple importance of learning. We still need to think and read. We still need to write. We still need to remember. Foer’s “The End of Remembering” brings these truths to
The book to me was interesting. The author use make history sounds more exciting than the
Do you consider yourself to have a great memory or do you consider yourself to have a bad memory? Can you remember more than four phone numbers and more than three immediate family members birthdays without using any technology? If you cannot answer those simple questions than maybe you should reconsider on working on your memorization side of your brain. Joshua Foer, the author of The End of Remembering, and Paulo Freire, author of The “Banking” Concept of Education, both write about how important memory is in the world today. In Foer’s passage he states that before paper, books, and modern technology people were expected to remember any piece of information that was given to them. Now people rely on anything that could record information so they would not have to remember it or worry about forgetting. He believes that technology is running our memory. However in Freire’s passage he states that memorizing decontextualizes and is unrelated to present conditions, but memory can concrete conditions of our daily lives. The importance of memory and its functions in the world today is that it lets a person find self-identity, prevents shallow base of knowledge, and sets values.
I found this book to be well written and researched, the downside of it was it felt more like an essay. The background stories and information was repeated several times, repetition can be good but to much just makes it seem like you ran out of things
This book is an eye opener, making you look at things in a different way changing your views and perspective of things we thought were impossible or that they had no relationship at all. He incentives you to formulate the correct questions by questioning everything that you feel curious about. Just remember what a genius once said, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."- Albert Einstein. Just remember how the book says
For now, I'll set aside considerations of why The Goal is a novel, how effective it is as a book, whether it succeeds as literature, and so on. This article is primarily about the ideas behind the book, and why some are valuable while others are probably quite useless.