Tag: Memory

Liked HEWN, No. 282 (HEWN)

My mum remembers (age 10 or so) eating six Tunnock’s teacakes and feeling quite ill on the bus from the train station at Lairg. She caught a trout on that trip, she says, too small to keep or eat, but she refused to throw it back and kept it in the wash basin in her room.


The family has told the stories from these vacations in Scotland for years — the knitted bathing suit and my uncle’s near-death experience (age 3) on the railway turntable in Rosemarkie. But as we drove through hills and over bridges, my mum and uncle squinted and hesitated and had to admit several times that perhaps the “what” and the “where” were different than what they recalled. (There was never a railway station in Rosemarkie, the villagers told us.)

Liked Childhood amnesia (Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel)

There’s some things that I’ve just completely forgotten. I only realise this when I see, hear, or perhaps smell something that reminds me of a thing that my conscious mind had chosen to leave behind. It’s particularly true of experiences from when we are very young. This phenomenon is known as ‘childhood amnesia’

Bookmarked The Complete Guide to Remembering What You Read by Niklas Göke (Better Humans)

When I look at the process from reading to retention, I see five phases. Let’s walk through them, break them down and optimize our behavior along the way.

Niklas Göke unpacks how to remember what you read. He lists five steps:

  1. Previewing
  2. Reading
  3. Note-Taking
  4. Condensing
  5. Remembering

This builds on the work of Ryan Holiday.

via Ian O’Byrne