Most people spend almost forty days a year trying to remember things they have forgotten. Joshua Feuer was once like that too. However, after only one year of training, he reached the finals of the USA Memorization Championship and - to his own surprise - won. This the book will change your ideas about how human memory works. The author will take readers on an amazing journey: you will learn a lot of interesting things, from the classical methods used by Cicero to the modern techniques of intellectual athletes". Foer's book is a call to revive the art of memorization, which even today, in the age of smartphones, is becoming more and more relevant."