Well.....lets see.........Oh wow man ! I forgot the question...man !
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your memory? (Edit: Wait... Have I asked this question before?)
I'd say an 8, I just started a new medication for migraine prevention that forgetfulness is a side effect of....hope not, but will see!
A 3 maybe. Darn shock treatments.
A 1 because I think I only remember 10% of stuff.
My long term memory is about a 9 and my short term memory is about a 5. But..............the yellow one has a longer tail and number 6 ran away at the age of 28 before she ever knew that she was a muffin.
Until five years ago I'd have gone for an 8 or 9. Now? There are lots of 2s and 3s mixed in with occasional 0s and 1s.
Sometimes that's funny. Sometimes its downright depressing.
42 🤔 yes 42.
Long memory: 9 out of 10
Short memory: 8 out of 10
It's dependable tho, sometimes suddenly during a conversation i totally forget what i was about to say, that comes due many subjects flying over my head and sometimes i become unable to organize them so they fly away! (while i have a very organized mind)
My long memory is prefect specially to undone subjects. If we deciding about something, another thing comes up and we become apart for six month, and we meet after six month, i'll ask to know your decision about something we were talking about six month ago.
Bear with me a moment for some background to my answer:
Now that I am retired, I find that I have been given the gift of "time." That gift has allowed me to do a lot of reflection about the role of my unique temperament and gifts, my nuclear family, my experiences, my education, my reading and anyone of a number of other things in producing produced the person I am today.
I am not much of a smart phone user---I prefer to write an email or compose and word document and attach it to an email because texting is very slow for me and I don't intend to practice in order to "up my speed."
And possibly because of some of my formal training, I use the scientific method quite frequently---and the essence of that is to only have one variable in the mix.
So, I prefer the concept of single function rather than multi-function. I don't buy tools that can do "everything"----I tend to buy a tool for the specific purpose I have in mind.
So here's my "answer."
What I know and have memorized has always had a specific purpose for me---required, independently interesting, a unique offhand statement---perhaps a quote from a novel, movie, play, or other book.
Since I retired retired since last July, I am slowly phasing out a number of tools related to interests that I have decided to move away from. It is interesting that my memory has a interesting parallel---I occasionally cannot recall some reference that I used to keep at the ready, but no longer have any real interest in. Significantly, perhaps, I do not attribute that to any decline in memory function.
I will be interested to revisit my comments in 3-4 more years.
