Life Seems To Speed Up As We

To The Extent That Experience Is The Sum Of Our Memories And Wisdom The Sum Of Experience, Having A Better Memory Would Mean Knowing Not Only More About The World, But Also More About Myself.

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

To Attain The Rank Of Grand Master Of Memory, You Must Be Able To Perform Three Seemingly Superhuman Feats. You Have To Memorize 1,000 Digits In Under An Hour, The Precise Order Of 10 Shuffled Decks Of Playing Cards In The Same Amount Of Time, And One Shuffled Deck In Less Than Two Minutes. There Are 36 Grand Masters Of Memory In The World.

It Is Forgetting, Not Remembering, That Is The Essence Of What Makes Us Human. To Make Sense Of The World, We Must Filter It. "to Think," Borges Writes, "is To Forget.

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?