Part Of Being Creative Is Not Being

Truman Capote Famously Claimed To Have Nearly Absolute Recall Of Dialogue And Used His Prodigious Memory As An Excuse Never To Take Notes Or Use A Tape Recorder, But I Suspect His Memory Claims Were Just A Useful Cover To Invent Dialogue Whole Cloth.

All Across Africa, The Pacific And The Americas, We Find Cultures That Didn't Know About Mouth Kissing Until Their First Contact With European Explorers. And The Attraction Was Not Always Immediately Apparent. Most Considered The Act Of Exchanging Saliva Revolting.

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

If You Want To Live A Memorable Life, You Have To Be The Kind Of Person Who Remembers To Remember.

We're All Just A Bundle Of Habits Shaped By Our Memories. And To The Extent That We Control Our Lives, We Do So By Gradually Altering Those Habits, Which Is To Say The Networks Of Our Memory. No Lasting Joke, Or Invention, Or Insight, Or Work Of Art Was Ever Produced By An External Memory. Not Yet, At Least.