The Digital Brain Health Market, 2012-2020 (http://www.sharpbrains.com)

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“The brain makes sense up close and from far away. It’s the in-between—the stuff of thought and memory, the

language of the brain—that remains a profound mystery.”

(page 34)

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“…when it comes to chunking—and to our memory

more broadly—what we already know determines what

we’re able to learn.”(page 62)

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it.”

(page 77)

Background image from http://www.jrbenjamin.com)

“Socrates thought the

unexamined life was not worth living. How much more so

the unremembered life?”

(page 78)

“Writing, for Socrates, could never

be anything more than a cue

for memory—a way of calling to mind

information already in one’s head.”

(page 139)

(Quoted on page 110. “Stacks” image by Roman Boed, CC-BY-2.0 on Flickr.)

One book, printed in

the Heart’s own wax

Is worth a thousand

in the stacks.

-Jan Luyken

“As more and more of our lives move online, more and more is being captured and preserved in ways that are dramatically changing the relationship between our

internal and external memories.”(page 156)

“Part of the reason techniques like visual

imagery work so well is that they enforce a degree

of attention and mindfulness that is normally lacking.”

(page 177)

“Creativity is, in a sense, future

memory.”- Tony Buzan

(Quoted on page 203. “The Palette” by freeparking, CC-BY-2.0 on Flickr.)

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it

are products of what and how we remember.

We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our

memories.” (page 269)