The More We Remember, The Better We

To The Extent That Experience Is The Sum Of Our Memories And Wisdom The Sum Of Experience, Having A Better Memory Would Mean Knowing Not Only More About The World, But Also More About Myself.

All Across Africa, The Pacific And The Americas, We Find Cultures That Didn't Know About Mouth Kissing Until Their First Contact With European Explorers. And The Attraction Was Not Always Immediately Apparent. Most Considered The Act Of Exchanging Saliva Revolting.

Life Seems To Speed Up As We Get Older Because Life Gets Less Memorable As We Get Older.

Invented Languages Have Often Been Created In Tandem With Entire Invented Universes, And Most Conlangers Come To Their Craft By Way Of Fantasy And Science Fiction.

One Trick, Known As The Journey Method Or 'memory Palace,' Is To Conjure Up A Familiar Space In The Mind's Eye, And Then Populate It With Images Of Whatever It Is You Want To Remember.