Foer vs. King
The author of this report has been asked to assess one body of work thorugh the lens of someone else's perspective. The work that will ultimately be assessed will be On Writing as written by Stephen King. The person whose lens will be used to assess Mr. King's treatise will be Joshua Foer. Specifically, the work Moonwalking with Einstein will be the prism and lens that will be used to assess and describe what is being manifested in King's work. Of course, the main premise of Foer's work was the "art and science of remember everything," as clearly stated by the subtitle of the book. The work of Foer will be described through some recitation and summary of his work and those quote and ideas will then be applied to the work of King when he wrote his memoir. While the human brain absolutely has limitations, it is also capable of wondrous and expansive things such as changing, adapting and assisting in the creation of works of art that many minds could never endeavor to pull off.
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Many people may think that their "lot in life" from a mental and brain-capacity standpoint is fixed, either at birth or at a certain point in life. However, Foer and other professionals in the fields that pertain to the brain are more than willing to assert that this is simply not true. As noted by Foer in his Einstein book, the brain is a "mutable organ, capable -- within limits -- of reorganizing itself and readapting to new kinds of sensory input, a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity" (Foer, 2011). Beyond that, there are many people that have become known as what Foer calls "mental athletes." To call these people mental athletes is by no means a stretch. Just as conventional physical athletes use parts of their body to exercise and execute their craft, mental athletes do the same thing. The difference is that physical athletes are working things like their arms, legs and abdominals. Mental athletes are unleashing the power of their brain. Foer says this emphatically and he notes that there is proof of this. There was a study done that compared "mental...
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