| You've put in words something that has been around my mind for so much time. Thanks for sharing the thought! I would say some of my problems are related to what you just wrote. I've been an avid reader all my life, mostly of fiction novels, but not only. Over time, as the habits of my work have permeated into my daily life I've found the following: - I skim over most written text to get to gist of it, even for novels - as a consequence, I usually lose the nuance and the details of a text, even though I get mostly 80% of the content. I find myself needing to go back when I don't understand why something happens, or a character comes out of nowhere, etc. The same thing has also filtered to my non-reading habits, for example when listening to people. I quickly switch to getting the gist of what someone is telling me and making up the rest in my mind. And this has gotten me into trouble several times, even though it is an effective technique most of the time when programming or with similarly related tasks and you research across many tabs and search results and you need to get knowledge quickly without stopping to read everything. I've tried to slow down myself and really listen until the end when people talk to me, and making a conscious effort to try to remember what they're saying to me, or what I'm reading. This works better. I also feel that having access to all those helps, reminders, and also search engines, has greatly deteriorated my memory capacity or willingness to store facts, plans, ideas, in my mind, as I know I can retrieve it later if I need it, or I trust tools to remind me of things. I've become more forgetful over time. Well...at least it is important to be aware to try to fix it. I'm not from the US, I think it is a global phenomenon for similar cultures. |