If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
