The main thing I took away from this is how hard some things can seem to someone who has a casual acquaintance with the topic. This seems to be particularly true with regard to some acts of memorisation.
Lots of classical musicians can play a reasonably wide repertoire of complex and long pieces from memory. Is that freakish? Not really, and if you play an instrument you will soon find yourself being able to remember long stretches of the music you play without much effort - people say 'it's in the fingers'.
Lots of classical musicians can play a reasonably wide repertoire of complex and long pieces from memory. Is that freakish? Not really, and if you play an instrument you will soon find yourself being able to remember long stretches of the music you play without much effort - people say 'it's in the fingers'.