According to scientists‘ explorations we can‘t use more than 2-3% of our brain potential. That means we can‘t use our memory‘s abilities fully as well.
Memory is such a tricky thing. Probably everyone of you had already noticed how randomly we forget and remember things. Of cause, you can train your memory, invent some sort of system for increasing a chance of remembering things you really need and forgetting meaningless crap. Yet it’s kind of a long and complicated process, you really need lots of time and patience for.
I still can’t stop wondering how random my memory is. To tell you the truth it’s not so bad; but tell me why easily remembering poetry after a few times of reading I still easily forget to buy milk even going to the shop 2-3 times per day? Well, that’s mostly a rhetorical question.
I easily forget about earlier planned appointments, visits to the dentist, names and addresses, but I still perfectly remember phone numbers I used to call like eight years ago. For example, 219227 is a number of my school friend. Last time I’ve seen her about six years ago and we hadn’t stayed in touch all that time. But her phone number is still inside my head. I find it quite funny how already useless things become a part of you. It’s kind of a paradox according to how meaningful we always pretend to be.
Due to always forgetting something I need to do I’m writing myself plenty of reminding notes. “Buy coffee”. “January 27 deadline. Cinema history”. “Bike locker”. “Call Mom”. I stick them everywhere, especially on the things like toilet or fridge door, laptop or coffee box. But the little bastards are sticking off and I forget to do what they had to remind me. The quantity of stickers reaches its critical top closer to Christmas, assessments and beginning of spring. The funniest thing is that more organized I make my reminding system, less working it gets. On the other hand, without system it doesn’t work at all.
I’ve been trying to solve my problem in all the different ways for a long time and came to conclusion, that the problem is not in a memory condition itself, but in the lack of self-discipline. Probably instead of wasting tones of paper I just need to organize myself better. Or just make reminding tattoos like a protagonist in a movie “Memento”. Preferably on the forehead, so I could see what I already forgot to do, every time I look in the mirror.
Memory is such a tricky thing. Probably everyone of you had already noticed how randomly we forget and remember things. Of cause, you can train your memory, invent some sort of system for increasing a chance of remembering things you really need and forgetting meaningless crap. Yet it’s kind of a long and complicated process, you really need lots of time and patience for.
I still can’t stop wondering how random my memory is. To tell you the truth it’s not so bad; but tell me why easily remembering poetry after a few times of reading I still easily forget to buy milk even going to the shop 2-3 times per day? Well, that’s mostly a rhetorical question.
I easily forget about earlier planned appointments, visits to the dentist, names and addresses, but I still perfectly remember phone numbers I used to call like eight years ago. For example, 219227 is a number of my school friend. Last time I’ve seen her about six years ago and we hadn’t stayed in touch all that time. But her phone number is still inside my head. I find it quite funny how already useless things become a part of you. It’s kind of a paradox according to how meaningful we always pretend to be.
Due to always forgetting something I need to do I’m writing myself plenty of reminding notes. “Buy coffee”. “January 27 deadline. Cinema history”. “Bike locker”. “Call Mom”. I stick them everywhere, especially on the things like toilet or fridge door, laptop or coffee box. But the little bastards are sticking off and I forget to do what they had to remind me. The quantity of stickers reaches its critical top closer to Christmas, assessments and beginning of spring. The funniest thing is that more organized I make my reminding system, less working it gets. On the other hand, without system it doesn’t work at all.
I’ve been trying to solve my problem in all the different ways for a long time and came to conclusion, that the problem is not in a memory condition itself, but in the lack of self-discipline. Probably instead of wasting tones of paper I just need to organize myself better. Or just make reminding tattoos like a protagonist in a movie “Memento”. Preferably on the forehead, so I could see what I already forgot to do, every time I look in the mirror.
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