I find studying and remembering technical information pretty straightforward, and I’d say I’m actually good at it if I think about my work life. Synthesizing lo

I find studying and remembering technical information pretty straightforward, and I’d say I’m actually good at it if I think about my work life. Synthesizing lots of disparate (sometimes old) data is something folks say I do well. When I introspect about this I feel like because these things are discrete, they’re easier to place into a category, or relate to some other fact. But experiences are a mass of sensory and emotional “data” that doesn’t cleanly get associated. Or that’s at least how it feels. Somewhat related is how the whole “memory palace” techniques fail completely for me. I can barely come up with the outlandish visuals, and even if I do, I don’t remember what they are, so it’s a useless system for me.