A beautifully written and brilliant portrait of the human mind and the extraordinary potential within every one of us, by the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY. EMBRACING THE WIDE SKY is a brilliant insight into the mind of a genius. In this book Daniel Tammet describes exactly how he has achieved his phenomenal memory skills and shows what can be learned and applied by other people of all abilities. The book uses the very latest scientific research to challenge a number of well-established myths, such as the idea that intelligence is genetically fixed and immutable.