Monotony Collapses Time; Novelty Unfolds It. You

Our Lives Are Structured By Our Memories Of Events. Event X Happened Just Before The Big Paris Vacation. I Was Doing Y In The First Summer After I Learned To Drive. Z Happened The Weekend After I Landed My First Job. We Remember Events By Positioning Them In Time Relative To Other Events.

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.

Growing Up In The Days When You Still Had To Punch Buttons To Make A Telephone Call, I Could Recall The Numbers Of All My Close Friends And Family. Today, I'm Not Sure If I Know More Than Four Phone Numbers By Heart. And That's Probably More Than Most.

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.

Memory Is Like A Spiderweb That Catches New Information. The More It Catches, The Bigger It Grows. And The Bigger It Grows, The More It Catches.