tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post8574922375291078894..comments2023-09-13T10:53:12.598-05:00Comments on Tullius est [et Tullius non est Cicero]: A Book I Just ReadAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-79840244840490038402015-04-08T08:01:53.638-05:002015-04-08T08:01:53.638-05:00Ditto with the shopping list. My one question is ...Ditto with the shopping list. My one question is what to make of people who cannot picture things in their mind but think purely abstractly. The memory palace would not work, but still, such people have memories. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-71934078219503078132015-04-07T21:38:48.975-05:002015-04-07T21:38:48.975-05:00An excellent book, no doubt. Was amazed at how muc...An excellent book, no doubt. Was amazed at how much work the imagination has to do in order to memorize well. Seems to me that exercising one's memory requires much more than that one simple faculty. It's an aid to creative thinking and may as well enhance critical reasoning skills as well. <br /><br />I particularly enjoyed his attempt (to my mind, successful) to teach the reader how to (e.g.) memorize a simple shopping list. I went along with him, and did make myself do as he suggested. That's been several months back, and I'm pretty sure I could recite that grocery list without a problem. Monashnoreply@blogger.com