Moonwalking with Einstein- Joshua Foer

Forgetful? Well, I definitely am. I don’t know about you but I find things like names, birthdays, and phone numbers just impossible to remember. We rely on so many reminders on our phones to keep on top of this information; whatever happened to good old brain power?! Well scale this up a gear; maybe you can remember quite a lot, but could you compete in a memory championship?

This book is written by the journalist Joshua Foer, just an ordinary guy with an average brain. He narrates his journey of mastering memory through having lessons with previous champions of the mind. Foer depicts his progress and thoughts with lots of humour, making it a good read.

The book shows the techniques for memorising things through Foer practicing them. This involves grouping numbers, word association, mind palaces, and much more. I found this quite interesting as I expected the process of remembering things to be much more complex, yet it is conveyed simply and understandably in the text.

Overall I love the progress of an average guy (Joshua Foer) learning how to memorise much more than he thought he could. The facts and techniques were fascinating and compelling to try out. Reading this book I now have more techniques to help my memory improve for exams (well I hope so!) and who knows, you too might learn something after a read; who doesn’t wanna be the next Einstein?!