How well can you remember things?

• www

  28 Oct 03, 02:30

  i have poor memory. maybe because i like remembering things selectively.
  
  which explains why i have problem preparing for exams early. i tried studying them one to two months beforehand and still end up having to memorise them by hard 1 week prior to the papers. and it is not any easier compared to not having any preparation at all.
  
  so i thought "what the fark" and leave everything to last minute.
  
  are you facing the same problem, be it at work or in school?
• the Bear

  28 Oct 03, 02:34

  mind like a sieve... can't remember anything except the BIG things..
  
  much to the distress of everyone around me
• Churra

  28 Oct 03, 02:34

  hmmm... exams are different. It's usually remembering them before that and forgetting them after. So, the effort to remember them is not tat great.
  
  I can rem things pretty well, even small details.
  But there's one thing i discover that i have probs with recently. It's the remembering of names. I can do that very well when i was younger. But when i started work, i have this prob of remembering names with faces.
  god!
• skeujin

  28 Oct 03, 02:40

  sori wat was this thread about again?
• the Bear

  28 Oct 03, 02:43

  i forgot.. i blame the beer
  
  thanks beer
  
  

  Originally posted by skeujin:

  sori wat was this thread about again?

• Qoo`~`

  28 Oct 03, 08:55

  mine suxz totally... can see now and forget 3 mins later...
  
  
• mapp|ezz

  28 Oct 03, 09:59

  duno.
  
  it depends.....
• FireIce

  28 Oct 03, 10:07

  exams need to rber one meh?
  exams is sian one mah........ehhehehehehe
  
  i rber things quite well i would say....even if it's a passing remark....
  
  but hor....some things rber too well oso no good.....hard to forget them.....
• www

  28 Oct 03, 10:58

  is it true that it is a gift to have great memory?
  
  if no, what should one do to improve such ability?
  
• choco B

  28 Oct 03, 11:02

  There are training programs to improve the memory.
  
  I got poor memory too. But sometimes it's because I get side tracked by other things alot so I don't remember what's going on in the first place.
• X-men

  28 Oct 03, 12:04

  I have bad memory...
  
  I try not to remember unhappy events and the bad memory helps.
• MooKu

  28 Oct 03, 12:22

  Sometimes good... sometimes VERY bad.
  
  On many occasions, I'd ask somebody a question, only to ask it again later [like, 2 mins later?!], forgetting that I had already asked it.
• Do|pHinE

  28 Oct 03, 12:50

  huh?wow..u reali got the motivation sia... ask me prepare one month b4 hand..i will never do it.. haha..too lazy...sometimes u can play memory game...help u improve...
• Devil1976

  28 Oct 03, 16:59

  Depends on my mood
  
  And also how tired and bothered you are.... Generally one cannot remember things well when the person's tired or too troubled / distracted by something.
• www

  29 Oct 03, 00:33

  i read from some books that humans have only learnt how to use 1% of even less of their brain. if fully utilised, the capacity could be many times more efficient than a computer.
  
  you agree to this fact?
  
  do you also agree that over-reliant on computers reduce our thinking power?
• Devil1976

  29 Oct 03, 16:57

  Originally posted by www:
  i read from some books that humans have only learnt how to use 1% of even less of their brain. if fully utilised, the capacity could be many times more efficient than a computer.
  
  you agree to this fact?
  
  
  I've read something like that before too...? But I don't know... Basically I think computers & humans are doing 2 different types of things if you really wanna zoom in the details... Even if you can think like a COMPUTER, you certainly won't wanna burn out like one...?
  
  
  do you also agree that over-reliant on computers reduce our thinking power?
  
  YES. DEFINITELY. But that doesn't mean that we should avoid it altogether. Just depends on the needs? Brains are just like muscles... You don't wanna walk? Your thighs would grow fat and sloppy...