A little OT: there's a great book called "The sound of two hands clapping", about an American who was trained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. This requires immense

A little OT: there's a great book called "The sound of two hands clapping", about an American who was trained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. This requires immense memorization, and coming back to the West, the guy realized how much we rely on our information being easily (and physically) available to us, as opposed to retrieving some of it from our memory. It's a great read and offers an interesting perspective on how things might be different elsewhere.