tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7187551541137541718..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Memory TricksAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-62143166877221382562021-10-03T09:07:00.596-04:002021-10-03T09:07:00.596-04:00I just had that work this morning. I was looking f...I just had that work this morning. I was looking for a medicine I knew had arrived this week, and kept looking in the only places it could possibly be, based on the information of remembering where I had opened the packet. I checked underneath furniture and in the little slots that things sometimes fall halfway to the floor and get stuck. Nothing. The supply was not desperate, so I gave up and took a shower. In the shower, it occurred to me that it had been a different medicine that had just arrived, and the one I was looking for had yet to be ordered. The recently-arrived medicine was indeed in the cabinet in its proper place on the left hand side, and my email confirms that I have not yet ordered the refill for the one that goes on the right.<br /><br />With that distancing method, you will sometimes remember a thing just as you are dropping off to sleep, or in y case, while out on a walk. You have to force yourself to write it down, even if you would rather not, because you can easily forget it twice.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-17114907492677713362021-10-03T06:25:36.937-04:002021-10-03T06:25:36.937-04:00I use a crossword trick that sounds like what succ...I use a crossword trick that sounds like what successful Jeopardy players say they use: a kind of disengaging of mental gears that allows an answer to float up. It sometimes works for things like recalling a tune or someone's name. I'll have to try it for finding items I've misplaced physically.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.com