Experts Step Outside Their Comfort

Since At Least The Middle Ages, Philosophers And Philologists Have Dreamed Of Curing Natural Languages Of Their Flaws By Constructing Entirely New Idioms According To Orderly, Logical Principles.

Experts Step Outside Their Comfort Zone And Study Themselves Failing.

How Much Are We Willing To Lose From Our Already Short Lives By Losing Ourselves In Our Blackberries, Our Iphones, By Not Paying Attention To The Human Being Across From Us Who Is Talking With Us, By Being So Lazy That We're Not Willing To Process Deeply?

The Best Memorizers In The World - Who Almost All Hail From Europe - Can Memorize A Pack Of Cards In Less Than A Minute. A Few Have Begun To Approach The 30-second Mark, Considered The 'four-minute Mile Of Memory.'

With Our Blogs And Tweets, Digital Cameras, And Unlimited-gigabyte E-mail Archives, Participation In The Online Culture Now Means Creating A Trail Of Always Present, Ever Searchable, Unforgetting External Memories That Only Grows As One Ages.