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memory tricks
Aug. 1st, 2002 11:53 amThis morning during services Rabbi Berkun asked me if I could lead services tomorrow night. I said "let me check; I'll tell you at breakfast". I later realized that he probably now thinks I carry a PDA around.
No, it's nothing like that. Maybe one of these days, but thus far I am not PDA-enabled. What I had to do was visualize the calendar on the kitchen wall and check whether anything was written in for tomorrow night. (Like, were we having anyone over for dinner?) And I didn't want to interrupt davening long enough to do that on the spot.
This, in turn, reminded me that most people's brains don't work that way.
I don't have photographic memory per se; I can't visualize the front page of yesterday's paper and read the headlines off or anything like that. But I have a very visual memory, which includes things like remembering that the thing I'm searching for is in this book, about three-quarters of the way through, on a right-hand page halfway down, even though I can't remember the name of the chapter it's in. And I remember my calendar visually, though I can't "read" what's written on it.
Ironically, I completely suck at the names-and-faces thing.
No, it's nothing like that. Maybe one of these days, but thus far I am not PDA-enabled. What I had to do was visualize the calendar on the kitchen wall and check whether anything was written in for tomorrow night. (Like, were we having anyone over for dinner?) And I didn't want to interrupt davening long enough to do that on the spot.
This, in turn, reminded me that most people's brains don't work that way.
I don't have photographic memory per se; I can't visualize the front page of yesterday's paper and read the headlines off or anything like that. But I have a very visual memory, which includes things like remembering that the thing I'm searching for is in this book, about three-quarters of the way through, on a right-hand page halfway down, even though I can't remember the name of the chapter it's in. And I remember my calendar visually, though I can't "read" what's written on it.
Ironically, I completely suck at the names-and-faces thing.