Thought for the Day Always carry a notebook....

[Paul Whybrow]

“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”

Will Self

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Three minutes? Wow, at my age that’s quite an optimistic goal.

 

[E G Logan]

And two pencils. The second one in case the first one breaks.

 

[Pamela Jo]

Three minutes? Wow, at my age that’s quite an optimistic goal.

And too true. Little hand recorder. The first time I met a REAL writer in NYC and he had one of those, my mind was blown. (It was a blind date and he kept taking it out to make notes. He wrote mysteries and apparently I gave him ideas on a character.) Now I send myself a text. My husband gifted me the cutest little recorder for xmas if I can figure out how its works.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

And your mobile phone which has a notebook and a voice recorder for those on-the-hoof inspirations.

 

[Pamela Jo]

And your mobile phone which has a notebook and a voice recorder for those on-the-hoof inspirations.

And for me, a lanyard to hang the phone around your neck so it's there when you need it. At least notebook w little pencil doesnt need to be recharged.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

3 minute short term memory? It's no wonder I need a list, however short, when I go to the supermarket! And why remembering names when introduced to party guests is impossible.

(Actually, STM, filters information within a minute of receiving it and passes it to LTM or disintegrates it. LTM has different layers, some easily accessible, others not . . . for further information on brain processing and memory, I highly recommend Pixar's Inside Out and Inside Out 2. I'd have so used those if I still taught in schools!)

 

[Pamela Jo]

3 minute short term memory? It's no wonder I need a list, however short, when I go to the supermarket! And why remembering names when introduced to party guests is impossible.

(Actually, STM, filters information within a minute of receiving it and passes it to LTM or disintegrates it. LTM has different layers, some easily accessible, others not . . . for further information on brain processing and memory, I highly recommend Pixar's Inside Out and Inside Out 2. I'd have so used those if I still taught in schools!)

And research indicates the root of the problems lumped as dyslexia is an inability to carry and store information from STM to LTM. That's why whole word method of teaching reading is so disastrous. Phonetic sounds making up words get processed more easily and make it to LTM.