What random, mostly useless, thing are you surprisingly good at? (Jessica's is remembering the names of people's children. Mine is guessing when things were made.)
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When I was in middle school my party trick was "Here's the Hobbit. Open to any page and read a sentence. I'll read the next until you tell me to stop." It took me a while before I understood that that didn't accomplish my goals in having a party trick.
Astonishing. I always feel that if I had this ability, I could just read the right books and I'd know everything. But apparently it doesn't work that way. Why doesn't it? Do you remember the words rather than the ideas?
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Maybe it does work that way, and he does know everything?
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I think one remembers ideas and that too in a given context. The same ideas and words would have meant something different a while back in a different context and now they mean something different in the present context. Context is so important in remembering words or ideas.
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Memorizing isn’t building the model
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It has decayed a bit over time, which I feel sad about re: books but happy about re: other intrusive thoughts. The experience of remembering a book for me was spatial; I could see the sentence on the bottom right of a page and knew when it flipped.
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I didn’t have any special comprehension abilities other than the ones you’d expect from an extremely bookish middle schooler, and the nature of the random access wouldn’t let me e.g. query by themes or motifs, sequencing events, etc.
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kinda like storing state of local variables (top of stack) in a history array vs. storing the vastly larger context (heap) at each moment. Re-reading a great book is so fun once the context's changed enough.
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