Joshua Foer's Feats Of Memory Anyone Can Do

Joshua Foer’s “Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do” As more and more new innovations are developed, people do not need to waste time to memorize lots of things. Most of us consider that it is helpful for humans to use technologies because we can use brains to think about useful things. However, Joshua Foer gives us some new ideas of training memory skill in his Ted Talk “Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do”. He states that it is still necessary to train people’s memory, since memory skill can improve human’s cognitive competence. Foer provides some strange and singularity examples with audience as his evidences to support his argument. Based on research, he points out people who have good memory brain’s structure are similar to normal people and they do have special talents. The only difference is they have strong ability of cognitive and thinking abilities. When they try to memory things, they will use some unique ways, like creating some fun moments or provide special meaning to many numbers in a mess. If people create some unique meanings for some normal things and connect with some funny characteristics, it is easy for them to …show more content…
They need to put much focus on jobs instead of wasting time on memorizing things. Memory training has benefit of helping people reduce time. When we get into schools, we cannot avoid many exams. Most of them requires us to memorize things. Usually, we can do a good job in small quizzes because we will have good short term memory. In final week, we still need to spend time memorizing everything again. If we can have long term memory, it must save lots of time. One of the key points in the training of memory is using some unique examples to memorize something. It can explore into our normal life. Once people have deep impression on some creative examples, it is not easy to forget it. At the end, people will save plenty of time on reviewing things again and