Journalist and Author
Joshua Foer is an American journalist and author who won the 2006 USA Memory Championship after covering the competition as a reporter. His bestselling book Moonwalking with Einstein chronicles his journey from journalist to memory champion, and he co founded the Atlas Obscura website.
by Joshua Foer
Foer trains for the US Memory Championship and discovers extraordinary memory is a skill, not a gift, built on ancient spatial techniques anyone can learn. Memory shapes identity itself.
The books Joshua Foer references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Csikszentmihalyi identifies the state of total absorption where time vanishes and performance peaks. Flow is not random, it arises from clear goals, immediate feedback, and matched challenge.
Who Joshua draws from, and who draws from Joshua — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.