Begin Reading Table of Contents

“amazing array of interests”
: from page 64 of Morris, 
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
.
The positive receipt of Roosevelt’s book by the 
Nuttall Bulletin
comes from Morris’s endnotes: in particular, note
37 in the chapter titled “The Man with the Morning in His Face.”
“one of the most knowledgeable”
: from page 67 of Morris, 
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
. I ascribed this
assessment to Morris, though this is somewhat indirect, as Morris here is actually arguing that Roosevelt’s
father, after the publication of 
The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks
, must have felt this about his son.
“The amount of time he spent at his desk”
: from page 64 of Morris, 
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
.
Memorize a Deck of Cards
Quotes from Daniel Kilov came from personal correspondence. Some background on his story was taken from his
online biography, http://mentalathlete.wordpress.com/about/, and Lieu Thi Pham. “In Melbourne, Memory
Athletes Open Up Shop.” ZDNet, August 21, 2013. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/in-
melbourne-memory-athletes-open-up-shop/. More on Kilov’s scores (memory feats) from his two medal-
winning championship bouts can be found on the World Memory Statistics website: http://www.world-memory-
statistics.com/competitor.php?id=1102.
Foer, Joshua. 
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
. New York:
Penguin, 2011.
“We found that one of the biggest differences”
: Carey, Benedict. “Remembering, as an Extreme Sport.” 
New
York Times
Well Blog, May 19, 2014.
For more interesting connections between memorization and general thought, see: 
The Art of Memory
, by Frances
A. Yates, which was first published in 1966. The most accessible version seems to be the handsome 2001
reprint by the University of Chicago Press.
Rule #3