Charlie’s Photogenic Memory
Have you ever wonder how some people remember everything that was taught to them? Be it tedious maths equations or physics theory or interactions between chemicals, they seem to have the answer. We admire these people for having a memory so wonderful that they can recall their database whenever they needed. Deep down inside, we hate to admit that they are smarter and know more than we do.
This is because we know we had acquired that knowledge before and we remember very well that we used to understand the particular theory so thoroughly that we could explain it to our fellow classmates. But now, just a few years down the road, they are no longer accessible to us. Isn’t that a depressing to realize that all the hard work put in had gone to a waste?
So true the statement which says: If we don’t use it, we’ll lose it.
The best way of retaining information is to keep revising. It won’t be too difficult recalling the theories because we have learnt them before. Besides re-visiting the information we knew, we can learn by looking at them from an angle that we have never tried before. We would realize that there are actually so much information provided to us but we’ve never treasured them.
It doesn’t matter if they are not relevant to us at present; just keep them at our finger tips, because somewhere sometime in the future, they’ll come in handy. :o)
March 29th, 2007 at 5:12 am
is charlie the boy from the story of the dog who died in the nighttime or sth lk taht?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Hey you’re so right man… That’s why I’m so bad in badminton now =P but it’s true that you forget stuff over time, however I disagree a little bit that all the effort put in has gone to waste. Sometimes “muscle memory” like dancing or stuff that you made funny formulas about would just “click” in your head once it’s mentioned and rather than having everything at your fingertips, it’s subconsciously drilled into your head already. Perhaps that’s how learning should be.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Seyin - Charlie is the girl in the series Heroes. :o) Just got hooked to it!
Luxian - I agree with what u said, but only to “muscle” memory. There are many more information, eg equations we learn in chemistry, maths and physics, which as time goes by, will be quite difficult to put them on application.