About interest, memory and willpower

Only by working through the force of habit and custom in man can you give order to his will and therewith also to his memory. In other words, you must understand how everything that awakens an intense interest in the child also contributes to a very great extent towards making his memory strong and efficient. For the power of the memory must be derived from the feeling and will and not from mere intellectual memory exercises.

Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 293 – The Study of Man: Lecture VIII – Stuttgart, 29 August 1919

YES!  Intellectual memory is just not adequate. We need to have our memory derived from our feeling and will capacities. I think this might explain my extraordinary memory. I've worked hard for thirty years developing my will force. I remain a work in progress, a work in need of much work.This is life.