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·My wife sent me out for a pint of milk and I came back with a Vulcan bomber (and the wrong milk :0)
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Ever Get Distracted? A Thread Drift Thread
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gbesq
·Yes, I get distracted frequently. Nothing to do with my watch though.
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Faz
·Oh yes. Drinking a high ball cocktail thinking it was a bottle of beer… picture that in a crowded bar.
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Walrus
·And I assume you forgot to buy the label maker
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RevZMan123
·And I assume you forgot to buy the label maker
What label maker? lol
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p4ul
·Eating a large spoonful of guacamole, which turned out to be wasabi. A good friend saved me from jumping backward over a balcony.
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Aroxx
·I prefer Sherlock Holmes' tenet over my acknowledgement of distraction.
“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
Sherlock Holmes to Doctor John H. Watson from "A Study In Scarlet"
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." - Herbert Simon
I don't think the statement that your brain is not elastic and that to remember one thing means you have to forget another is true. The human brain can remember a metric shit ton of stuff. You just have to intentionally train it to do so and filter out the BS. The key is recall. This is why reading is one of the most ineffective methods of learning. Even if you read the same thing over and over you're not recalling the information. You need to engage with the material, make flash cards, recall the information over time, etc. Every read is a write in your memory. There are all kinds of tricks to take advantage of this stuff and learn more, faster, and better. Anything you want to learn I highly recommend downloading Anki and using the principal of spaced-repetition. It's crazy the stuff I can recall from years ago using this method. I'm sure nobody will click this link but if anyone cares to learn more http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html.
Sorry for being so serious. I'm very interested in optimizing my learning and just read a book all about this stuff.
Now back to your regularly scheduled content of habanero balls and diaper cream toothpaste. 😗
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesThanks for the links Aroxx. I did open them.
I need all the help I can get on recall. I'm afraid that my ol' tired brain is much like Holms' inelastic attic.
Reading may be inefficient, but I love to read.
I need all the help I can get on recall. I'm afraid that my ol' tired brain is much like Holms' inelastic attic.
Reading may be inefficient, but I love to read.
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JwRosenthal
·But why bother when you can Google the sum of human knowledge? I have trained my brain to function in “Etchasketch” mode.
Now where was I?
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JwRosenthal
·What's-his-name's links.
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p4ul
·Oh, that guy- who was in the place with the thing, that time we went to get that stuff.
Sorry guys, you’ve lost me.
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