Throughout our reading this week of Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer, my group and I learned some new and interesting things about memory and how ours works. For example, Foer explained that our short term memory is limited to the"magic number 7," plus or minus two. In other words, we are only able to think about five to nine things at once before they vanish from our minds or turn into long term memories.
We also read that contrary to popular belief, our memory and perception of time actually speeds up when we're doing boring, repetitive things and it slows down when we start having richer experiences, like when we travel. Lastly, we learned a new skill to remember things by placing them in an "intimately familiar" place, such as your house, and making them weird or funny to help you visualize them and make them stand out amongst everything else in your memory.
Our book club meeting was extremely productive today and I feel that our conversations are getting deeper as we get more comfortable with each other, our book, and our roles. Today, most of our time was spent discussing our own long term memories, which were almost all consistent with Foer's discoveries.
- Annika H
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