When you just watch a show or movie, do you remember literally every scene and piece of dialogue?
No, and this is not common. It’s something like a photographic memory. I think there’s a more accurate term for it.
Five years ago I beat someone like that in a test. We weren’t tested against each other, per se, but this young woman (she was less than half my age) could visualise the text we were taught from. However, she relied upon this her whole life and lacked the critical thinking the rest of us developed to compensate for the gap in what we forgot and what we’d learned. So for each test question, in her mind she’s reading the source material and taking answers from it, but anything that required you to think outside the box — that is, if the answer isn’t plainly given in the source — she’d get it wrong every single time. She did get a high score, don’t get me wrong, but I was the top scorer in the class. And I didn’t study. We all have our own ways. She passed which is all that counts, I didn’t get any prize for obtaining the top score, and nobody else remembers or cares about it now. I don’t even care about it, I just wanted to make the point that the photographic memory is not the most useful mind in the room (though it can be handy).
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Whatever the exact opposite of that is, that’s what I do…
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 22 hours ago
and the cool thing is, a year or two, i can watch it all again!