Monthly Archives: November 2012

Posted on November 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

On the topic of our paradigm shift papers, I’m a bit nervous because research papers are not exactly me area of expertise. I’m just worried that I’ll make the completely wrong conclusions about my topic and that it’ll nullify my whole essay. Also, the fact that I’m making not-very-positive claims about a topic such as polygamy in Mormonism makes me think that I should be pretty careful with what I write, but I guess I’ll have a clearer vision post-conference…

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Posted in Work in Progress

Posted on November 1, 2012 | 2 comments

So I watched the TED talk with Joshua Foer and…wow. I’m pretty amazed that on his first attempt to join a memory contest he WON. The way he spoke about memory techniques and approaches was so casual and made it seem so accessible for anybody to try out. When explaining that our spacial and navigational abilities were what helped us remember so many things, I could definitely see where he was coming from. Personally, I know that my spacial processing is WAY better than just memorizing words (as displayed by the fact that I can drive back home from a completely different town just by recognizing landmarks and not street names…) It’s cool to think about how much potential we have in our brains for containing so much more information, and that even though we have a lot of technology that does it for us, it’s important not to lose those cognitive skills.

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Posted in Rhetoric and Civic Life