Memory

[acies]

This started to annoy me yesterday after watching a documentary about Kim Peek ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek ). Basically he has a photographic memory. Remembers everything he has ever read, reads a page in 8 seconds and can read 2 pages, one with each eye. And can recall about 98% of the book.

Anywho, this memory thing started to annoy me. I knew I never had that good a memory, especially for learning stuff off when i was in school. I could rarely do it well and if i did, it would usually take ages to learn.

I tried to learn something yesterday (out of boredom) So i just grabbed a magazine and tried to see how many words i could remember after reading them. And even though i had just looked at, and read, 2 lines i couldn't recite them without looking back.

But its a strange thing not being able to recall something. Because as soon as i looked back.. I knew the lines and it didn't make sense that i could forget them. After all it was only 2 lines!!!

And yet i can remember so much stuff like music lyrics or movie scenes. Or even in my younger years when wwf wrestling was cool, I (and everyone else) would know all the names and maneuvers.

Anyone here have a good memory for learning stuff, or learnt to learn stuff faster and more efficiently???

Edited September 14, 2006 by acies

[Digitalx]

its just learning styles you adapt to he was obviously a strong visual learner

I myself am a kinethstetic(??bad spelling)[hands-on learner] and visual I cant learn jack when being spoken to it just flys through my ears like the wind

Edited September 14, 2006 by Digix

[Shof]

i learn more hands on then on books. I can not learn anything when looking at a book, if i try to then i get headachs

[gdodson]

  Shof said:

i learn more hands on then on books. I can not learn anything when looking at a book, if i try to then i get headachs

Same here. I have a friend who I swear has a photographic memory. If only I could have it that easy :(

[pto]

Visual-books. I do consider myself lucky, but then again my sleep paralysis fcks with things a lot, so it's a querky memory but I remember what I need to, and then things i wish I could forget.