“There are no limits. There are plateaus, and you must not stay there; you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”

that's a bruce lee quote

it's a great reminder about what we are capable of if we literally put our mind to it.

eli sends me articles he has read online several times a day. sometimes i don't have the time to get to all of them or read one all the way through (some are long, and i am an exceptionally slow reader). but this one i read in its entirety.

it talks about the sport of memorization. like running, most people believe they can only accomplish so much with what they have; but like training for a marathon, it's not as impossible as it seems; people can train their brains to remember unimaginable details of information in incredibly short amounts of time.

the focus of the article is really on the brain and the techniques used to train and trick it into remembering things. but it reminded me about my conversation last week about the art of the oral tradition and its disappearance since the development of publishing. indeed, the more technology we develop the less need we have to use our brain's memory power. people don't even remember phone numbers anymore, they just save them straight into their phones.

bruce lee is smart. if you read the article it will make more sense.