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Same here. She remembers all this stuff over decades. I can barely remember last week. Sometimes I wonder if there's something up with my brain. Yes, I am actu

Same here. She remembers all this stuff over decades. I can barely remember last week. Sometimes I wonder if there's something up with my brain. Yes, I am actually pretty good at other brain stuff. Software and design and such. Good at concentration. And there's that "absent minded professor" archetype to consider. On the third hand, working outside in this heat can bake the brains right out of your head.

lazide 4y ago
Personally, I’ve noticed I’ll cycle between something like this (absent minded professor) and very aware with a good memory of events, times, and sequences. For me, it’s largely based on type of mental load, anxiety, and degree of rest and exercise. Low stress, mental load low and mostly oriented towards people, and good diet and exercise and I’ll be able to remember almost every moment and recall and integrate it into a coherent narrative quite easily. Mental load high and focused on abstract deep concepts? Higher anxiety? Less exercise and not as good nutrition? Where am I, and who are you?
dQw4w9WgXcQ 4y ago
> Sometimes I wonder if there's something up with my brain. Yea it's called being a man. Biologically speaking men statistically have far fewer connections between the two halves of their brain. Your wife basically has a gigabit link between her two halves while you're on 56k, which contributes to the intensity of her integrated story-telling experience. On one hand this often gives women better recall, but it also generally enables men to ignore intense experiences better (i.e. easier to block out the cross-chatter) and soldier forward. > Yes, I am actually pretty good at other brain stuff. The results establish that male brains are optimized for intrahemispheric and female brains for interhemispheric communication. -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896179/

lazide 4y ago

Personally, I’ve noticed I’ll cycle between something like this (absent minded professor) and very aware with a good memory of events, times, and sequences. For me, it’s largely based on type of mental load, anxiety, and degree of rest and exercise. Low stress, mental load low and mostly oriented towards people, and good diet and exercise and I’ll be able to remember almost every moment and recall and integrate it into a coherent narrative quite easily. Mental load high and focused on abstract deep concepts? Higher anxiety? Less exercise and not as good nutrition? Where am I, and who are you?

dQw4w9WgXcQ 4y ago

> Sometimes I wonder if there's something up with my brain. Yea it's called being a man. Biologically speaking men statistically have far fewer connections between the two halves of their brain. Your wife basically has a gigabit link between her two halves while you're on 56k, which contributes to the intensity of her integrated story-telling experience. On one hand this often gives women better recall, but it also generally enables men to ignore intense experiences better (i.e. easier to block out the cross-chatter) and soldier forward. > Yes, I am actually pretty good at other brain stuff. The results establish that male brains are optimized for intrahemispheric and female brains for interhemispheric communication. -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896179/