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Speaking for average people, nobody can explain how they know where they left things, it's just knowledge. It's weird that people ask you to explain how you kno

• caddemon 5y ago
  I mean that's one specific example, but I get what he's saying. I'm super verbal and I used to do problem sets in college with a friend that obviously had much better visuospatial abilities than me. >75% of the time he'd be the one that really figured out the question. But then we'd go home to write up our solutions and I'd get consistently full letter grade higher marks on what was essentially the same work. He was just doing a way worse job of putting his own work into words. Of course it depends on the circumstances how much explaining yourself matters, but in a lot of real life situations it is a good skill to have.
• joombaga 5y ago
  You don't know how you know where you left your own things, but if I do know where a friend left e.g. their wallet or keys, I often do remember why. As if the novelty of the circumstance that allowed me to store the information also caused my brain to store metadata about that memory, e.g. the novelty itself.