When I was about twelve years old I got it into my head that I should memorize things. So I memorized the things I loved — the first fifteen digits of pi, Jabberwocky<\/i>, The Owl and The Pussycat<\/i>, The Walrus and The Carpenter<\/i> and Jenny Kissed Me<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Now, all of these years later, I can still easily recite all of those things from memory, as well as the lyrics to all of the songs I loved at that age.<\/p>\n
Over the years I have repeatedly tried learning more digits of pi, but they never quite stick — those added digits always fade after a week or two. But those first 15 digits are burned into my brain as clearly as the day I first learned them.<\/p>\n
What is it about our minds when we are young that allows us to memorize things so easily? And isn’t it sad that as we get older we lose that astonishing superpower?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was about twelve years old I got it into my head that I should memorize things. So I memorized the things I loved — the first fifteen digits of pi, Jabberwocky, The Owl and The Pussycat, The Walrus and The Carpenter and Jenny Kissed Me. Now, all of these years later, I can … Continue reading “Memorize while you’re young”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27653,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions\/27653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}