Oh yes, I think the last part is what I have been doing still do it but it ain’t working as it used too after I got vaxed. I memorize everything out of logic and understanding. If it doesn’t make sense to me logically I have such a hard time. I went to philipines once to check out the culture. I seriously could not comprehend it logically, but I had to understand it. Understanding I think came about with being compassionate or humility or maybe a different word will be forgiving or maybe all three. I think that’s how I learnt how to grow mentally and spiritually. Also how I learnt to memorize.
In terms of photographic memory you’re right usually people who do not have a healthy mental state usually has those out of normal ability of photographic memory. I guess I did watch too much Hollywood😂. But I swear I did have a friend who would just flip through pages and memorize every single word. It didn’t even take him 10 seconds to flip a page with atleast 300 words. Or more.