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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've recently started to take medication. While this does help with my ability to focus, I have the feeling it just doesn't improve my memory. In my job I have to manage a lot of things and keep the details in mind. So I'm struggling and ask myself if I'm in the right business after all...

It's a cruel world for us...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Never give up on the things you can change, and learn to live at peace with the thing you can't"

Memory in terms of information retrevial (ex: memorizing digits of pi) can be learned.

However, trigger-based memory ("when I get home I should do X", "before I leave I should do Y", etc), is usually not something that can be learned or improved and I think its really counter productive to "just try harder". Unless you're in a pretty tight situation though (like gov work where you can't record or write down the info, or fast-paced work like waiter/waitress work where theres no time to record/revie), there's usually a way to work around a deficiency in trigger based memory.

Sometimes we can be in the wrong bussiness, but usually its a matter of support systems.

More often its wrong bussiness because they dont let us setup "unusual" and "shouldnt-be-necessary" support systems