นโปเลียนเขียนไว้ดังนี้ครับ:

But it was Napoleon himself who gave the most significant insight into the workings of his own mind. He wrote:

'Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep? I simply close all the drawers, and there I am - asleep.' 

สรุปว่าเป็นตู้ติดผนัง (cupboard) ซึ่งมีลิ้นชัก (drawers) ครับ

ลิงก์ข้างบน ยังพูดถึงผู้มีความจำเป็นเลิศอีกคนหนึ่งคือฮิตเลอร์ว่า:

Hitler was easily able to recall exact calibres of guns, the locations of military units, or submarine positions. His memory was not the general, imaginative variety developed by the normal person, rather that perfect system of recall which characterises the autistic or savant mind, and which had profound effects upon his thinking. Remembering was automatic, precise and absolute.

Hitler, like Napoleon, had a gift for simplifying vast amounts of data into what seemed like logical arguments, which he would string together when making speeches or decisions. Also like Napoleon, he was a voracious reader, a gleaner of facts which he stored without error.

There was also a correspondence in the attitudes of Hitler and Napoleon to their mothers. Both mothers, although different in character, could easily have set the conditions for drastic withdrawal - Klara Hitler doted upon her son, while Letizia Buonaparte was a formidable and intrusive authority from whom Napoleon was ever trying to free himself. Whether the two resulting minds were founded in the same problem is perhaps not so relevant as the similarity in dynamic.