Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
Book description
Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as deja-vu, near death experiences and the effect…
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Despite its title, this engaging book is actually about memory, especially “autobiographical memory” – memories of our own personal experiences.
The chapters describe some classical cases of memory excellence and memory failure, and provide thoughtful discussions of many topics that puzzle readers.
These include the power of smell to evoke past experiences, the astonishing memories of chess and draughts grandmasters, the downside of remembering everything, the highly specific memories of some people with savant syndrome, and indeed why life seems to speed up as we get older – the relationship between memory and time.
From Fergus' list on how your memory works – and why it often doesn't.
Want books like Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older.
Share your top 3 reads of 2024!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,213
readers submitted
so far, will you?
