Start with Brian. Out of all the shows, I would think, as a performer-- Like many, people I love this music. the Moonwalk . No one had ever seen the Moonwalk .
And yeah, I learned some dance moves. I tried the moonwalk , which was just kind of walking backwards at that age. That's all I could do.
Josh is a science journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, The New York Times, and many other publications. His first book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything chronicles his journey of going from being a guy with just an average memory to becoming the 2006 U.S. Memory Champion capable of memorizing a deck of cards in a minute and forty seconds.
way our minds work and to explain the background of that decision of why I use System 1 and System 2, I refer you to a very good book. It's very entertaining. It's by Joshua Foer and it's called Moonwalking with Einstein. It came out earlier this year. And what the book is about. Joshua Foer, he's a science writer. And he went to the Memory Championship of the United States. You might not know there is such a thing but there is. So people memorize decks of cards and very, very long lists of things and perform feats that we think are
Start with Brian. Out of all the shows, I would think, as a performer-- Like many, people I love this music. He was able to do the Moonwalk .
Go ahead. male #6: Thank you for coming. Joshua Foer: Have you read my book Moonwalking With Einstein available in the back?
Start with Brian. Out of all the shows, I would think, as a performer-- Like many, people I love this music. I think it was Ephraim at the time-- who did the Moonwalk .
It's where I love to practice photography. Actually this is an area that Apollo used to practice their moonwalks before they went to the moon. So most one of the areas in California that's most like the surface of the moon.
of the co-authors of the book by the same name Atlas obscura which is the reason why we're all here today he is also a best-selling author in the past with books like moonwalking for Einstein which is also great and I recommend you read their bit today he's going to be here talking about Atlas obscura and some of the fascinating and amazing places which are contained
within it so I think without further ado I will introduce Joshua forum please join me and welcome thank you so much the last time I was here at Google was to talk about moonwalking with Einstein my last book and this time I'm here to talk about this book atlas obscura which of which I am one of three
Start with Brian. Out of all the shows, I would think, as a performer-- Like many, people I love this music. But I will say I have definitely heard that there have been murmurings of potentially trying to put that Moonwalk moment back
I guess given that this is such an intimate setting I think I would like to maybe chat briefly and then have a kind of conversation with you guys about a theme, a subject, that is almost like this thread that goes through my book, Moonwalking With Einstein which is the relationship between knowledge and wisdom, between memory and intelligence. And I think it's a pertinent subject to talk about at this moment in time here at Google.
whether that's Daniel Tammet in the UK, who learned Icelandic in seven days well enough to be interviewed on TV, whether that's Ed Cooke, who plays a pretty big part in the book, who trained Joshua Foer from zero to national memory champion in the US, which was chronicled in "Moonwalking with Einstein." There is a method to this stuff.
But I knew if I skated as well as I could, I would have a good shot at it. Female Presenter: So, I was actually listening to a talk recently by an author named Joshua Foer and he wrote a book called "Moonwalking with Einstein." And so in this talk he was talking about just the importance of stepping outside of your comfort zone.