Is Road Memorization a Bad Thing?

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

It's an interesting question as to whether road memorization of certain things is a bad thing. We're much more likely to memorize the lyrics of songs now than a poem for obvious reasons, and certainly than a passage in a book. I think that there probably is a depth to memorization that is hard to quantify.

Chuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility that things we hold to be undeniably true may turn out to be totally false in the future. This wide-ranging conversation covers music and literary reputations, fundamentals of science, and issues of self-deception and illusion.