Growing Up In The Days When You

The More We Remember, The Better We Are At Processing The World. And The Better We Are At Processing The World, The More We Can Remember About It.

How Much Are We Willing To Lose From Our Already Short Lives By Losing Ourselves In Our Blackberries, Our Iphones, By Not Paying Attention To The Human Being Across From Us Who Is Talking With Us, By Being So Lazy That We're Not Willing To Process Deeply?

Experts Step Outside Their Comfort Zone And Study Themselves Failing.

I Have Never Been Particularly Good With Languages. Despite A Dozen Years Of Hebrew School And A Lifetime Of Praying In The Language, I'm Ashamed To Admit That I Still Can't Read An Israeli Newspaper. Besides English, The Only Language I Speak With Any Degree Of Fluency Is Spanish.

The Best Memorizers In The World - Who Almost All Hail From Europe - Can Memorize A Pack Of Cards In Less Than A Minute. A Few Have Begun To Approach The 30-second Mark, Considered The 'four-minute Mile Of Memory.'