“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.” IfsYearsChildrenPersonsStillsMomentsRememberFallBitsTermMemoriesSpaceFiveEmptyTwentiesOur ChildrenSevenAverageDataFive YearsItemsShort TermTwenty FiveCircuitsSupermarketsAverage PersonEmpty SpaceFive Year OldsShort Term Memory Book:Thinking In The Future Tense Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.” HomeSchoolThreeStrongParentMemoriesMorningWonderfulInfluenceHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwentiesClockAfternoonMilkCowsEvery MorningBarnsWonderful Memories Author:Billy Graham
“I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?” WritingYearsImportantPastRememberMemoriesRootsTwentiesForeignersWhy Me Author:Isabel Allende
“When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.” IfsYearsLooksMomentsFormMemoriesInformationExcitingTwentiesPreservation Author:Reggie Watts