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- From: f1sami@uta.fi (Samu Mielonen)
- Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
- Subject: Failing memory(?) / speed reading, advice sought
- Message-ID: <7473@kielo.uta.fi>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:00:21 GMT
- Distribution: inet
- Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
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- I have a huge problem with my memory or the way I manage my things (haven't
- necessarily figured it out yet) and I hope someone can help me out on this.
- I find myself forgetting not only the everyday tasks need to be done, but I
- also forget names, places, events and whole subjects.
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- For example, somebody introduces me a person, whom I find instantly likeable
- and with whom I get along (this should aid the process of remembering or am I
- wrong?), but may forget his/her name the next day even after having made a
- conscious attempt to remember it. This happens a lot to me and I also forget
- about names of the places, tasks I really ought / want to accomplish and stuff
- that I have read about casually or for an examination.
-
- I cannot / do not want to associate this all to the amount of
- things to be remembered, although I am quite sure that as my interests have
- grown the number of items to be remembered has also grown. Still, even if it's
- a case of memory overload I do not want to give up without a fight. I have
- tried some mnemonic techniques (namely Buzen, but also others), but either
- they're of little help or I forget to use them! I think herein lies the
- main problem; as I am a believer in mnemonics and I try to train my memory,
- but even after trying to motivate myself I cannot use the techniques when
- I should. I am now not only ought of memory (:-), but also out of ideas.
-
- Or could it be that I am learning how to remember, but do not know how
- to recall correctly? If so, how can one train recall?
-
- On another matter, there's been a lot of discussion on speed reading lately
- here and many people have stated that different texts should be read at
- different speeds. Fair enough, but can anyone state their minimum & maximum
- reading rates for reference purposes and tell how does one achieve such
- results (I am also interested in finding about horridly low rates, as they're
- sometimes not only useful, but even necessary).
-
- Any comments are appreciated.
-
- Cheers,
- Samu Z. Mielonen
-
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- Samu Z. Mielonen
- f1sami@kielo.uta.fi
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- "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit."
- (And perhaps at some later date it will be pleasant to remember these things.)
- - Vergil
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- I know I should've wrote something here, but I can't seem to remember what...
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