Monotony Collapses Time. Novelty Unfolds It.

Back When I Lived In Brooklyn, I'd Sometimes Take The Q Train All The Way Out To Coney Island And Back, And Work On My Laptop. There's Something About Pushy New Yorkers Looking Over Your Shoulder That Really Makes You Produce Sentences.

Memory Training Is Not Just For The Sake Of Performing Party Tricks; It's About Nurturing Something Profoundly And Essentially Human.

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.

One Trick, Known As The Journey Method Or 'memory Palace,' Is To Conjure Up A Familiar Space In The Mind's Eye, And Then Populate It With Images Of Whatever It Is You Want To Remember.

During The Middle Ages They Understood That Words Accompanied By Imagery Are Much More Memorable. By Making The Margins Of A Book Colorful And Beautiful, Illuminations Help Make The Text Unforgettable. It's Unfortunate That We've Lost The Art Of Illumination.