“When Simonides or someone offered to teach him the art of memory,” the Athenian politician Themistocles replied that he would “prefer the art of forgetting. ‘For I remember,’ said he, ‘even things I do not wish to remember, but I cannot forget things I wish to forget” – Cicero
WITTGENSTEIN-SOROS MEMORYLESSNESS
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) February 7, 2022
Waissman found difficulties working with Wittgenstein because he had "the gift of seeing everything as if for the first time".
Soros claimed he was helped by a bad memory so he couldn't remember past opinions & could not be married to them. (FBR)