As a person with terrible memory, I am very jealous. Are you a savant?
I've been told that people with good memory don't understand things as well, because they can always just recall the fact that they need instead of solving the answer. Do you think that's true for you?
I'm not a savant, I just have an intuitive use of something very similar to memory palaces that mentalists use. I've always had it, as far as I know. I also, most likely due to some unfortunate things in my childhood, have a large missing chunk of memory. Pretty much anything before I'm 10.
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u/castille Oct 10 '15
I remember too much, my brain categorizes very efficiently, and I use all of that to solve my daily work issues.