TED2012: Joshuah Foer - Moonwalking with Einstein

At TED2012 I interviewed Joshuah Foer, who gave a presentation about his recent book, Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. In his book, Joshua writes about covering the United States Memory Championship for a magazine. He decided to enter the contest himself and learned many ancient as well as cutting-edge techniques for memorizing long lists of numbers, the order of cards in a deck, pictures of things, etc. He ended up winning the championship.

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