Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

I enjoyed reading this book, although, I think my expectations were a little too high, and I didn't finish feeling like a had a lot of practical knowledge to implement. This makes sense after the fact as the books reads like a memoir, following the journey of Josha Foer a science journalist, who has the audacious goal of breaking into the U.S Memory Championship as a way to show that super memory is in part a skill and can be trained, which I think he does a good job of showing. One cool and practical technique that I took from the book was the concept of a Memory Palace, known as the method of loci where you use a location that you are very familiar with, and you store the items you want to remember visually in notable places within that location memory along with an extremely odd and sometimes explicit thought to help the memory stick. This will give you a new perspective as to the many capabilities of memory, but don't expect you'll be leaving with Rainman-like super powers.