Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and Science of Remembering is a nonfiction book based on many cases of people with spectacular memories by Joshua Foer. The reader gets to learn about all of these cases where events or environment has caused someone to increase their memory or decrease their memory.
I learned about all of these cases of incredible memory like Daniel or Kim Peek who inspired the 1988 academy award winning movie Rain Man. He was a savant who could not use logic or reasoning but any trivia fact or math problem he would be able to do. “Members of the audience had been invited to try to stump him with obscure trivia (anything but “logic or reasoning questions.” (181) It taught me that a person can excel in one area and not be able to do one area at all. When I was a kid I thought that people who were not good at language skills just were …show more content…
This has so many cases and real life events that prove the points in the book on memory. My favorite movie of all time is Rain Man. I love Rain Man, I find him so fascinating and Kim Peek the real Rain Man is in this book. It was so cool to learn a little about him and find out where Rain Man came from. “When it comes to savant memory, there is probably only one other human being in the same class as Brainman: Kim Peek, aka Rain Man, the prodigious savant born in 1951 who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Hollywood movie. He has arguably the best memory in the world. Now that I’d spent some time with Daniel, I decided to visit Kim in his hometown in Utah to make a comparison, to find out what the two celebrated prodigies had in common, and what they could tell me about the nature of savant syndrome” (181). If you liked the movie Rain Man and are very interested in memory like I am I would very strongly recommend Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and Science of
I learned about all of these cases of incredible memory like Daniel or Kim Peek who inspired the 1988 academy award winning movie Rain Man. He was a savant who could not use logic or reasoning but any trivia fact or math problem he would be able to do. “Members of the audience had been invited to try to stump him with obscure trivia (anything but “logic or reasoning questions.” (181) It taught me that a person can excel in one area and not be able to do one area at all. When I was a kid I thought that people who were not good at language skills just were …show more content…
This has so many cases and real life events that prove the points in the book on memory. My favorite movie of all time is Rain Man. I love Rain Man, I find him so fascinating and Kim Peek the real Rain Man is in this book. It was so cool to learn a little about him and find out where Rain Man came from. “When it comes to savant memory, there is probably only one other human being in the same class as Brainman: Kim Peek, aka Rain Man, the prodigious savant born in 1951 who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Hollywood movie. He has arguably the best memory in the world. Now that I’d spent some time with Daniel, I decided to visit Kim in his hometown in Utah to make a comparison, to find out what the two celebrated prodigies had in common, and what they could tell me about the nature of savant syndrome” (181). If you liked the movie Rain Man and are very interested in memory like I am I would very strongly recommend Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and Science of