{"id":2035,"date":"2014-10-31T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2014-10-31T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:06:00","slug":"friday-31-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/31\/friday-31-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 31 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:06 –<\/span> I’m playing around with a $25 Sony digital voice recorder I just received from Amazon, trying to develop the habit of taking notes with it as an aid to my failing memory. At age 61, developing a new habit is difficult.
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I tried doing this 10 or 15 years ago with an Olympus digital voice recorder, but I was never able to get the habit established. That’s because for the first 35 years of my life I could depend absolutely on my memory. I never had a phone\/address book, because I never needed one. I never took any notes in school from kindergarten through grad school, because I never needed to. Then one day when I was 35 I had a new experience. I realized that I’d forgotten something. I had to look up a phone number that I should have remembered. That was disturbing to say the least.
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Over the last 25 years, it’s gotten worse. The problem is all with short\/medium-term memory. I still remember, for example, the phone number of Connie Stewart, a girl I called one time when I was in sixth grade. But I find myself losing track of short-term stuff. For example, as I’m writing I may decide to look something up on Wikipedia. So I start Firefox, which brings up this page. There are new comments, so I read them. I then close the browser, having forgotten not just what I wanted to look up on Wikipedia, but even that I’d intended to look something up on Wikipedia.
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But old habits die hard, and my habit of never writing anything down was established over 35 years of my life so it will take a concerted effort to develop the new habit of using the DVR to make notes to myself. I suppose I shouldn’t complain. As bad as I think my memory is now, it’s still probably in the 99.9th percentile, not just for people my age but overall.
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09:06 – I’m playing around with a $25 Sony digital voice recorder I just received from Amazon, trying to develop the habit of taking notes with it as an aid to my failing memory. At age 61, developing a new habit is difficult.\n<\/p>\n

I tried doing this 10 or 15 years ago with an Olympus digital voice recorder, but I was never able to get the habit established. That’s because for the first 35 years of my life I could depend absolutely on my memory.<\/p>\n

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