20231128: My very reliable memory
I keep reminding and following up on many things with everybody I ask for something. To the point of frustration and getting upset with me (although everyone is polite and thank me for it 🙂). I can certainly imagine how irritating it must be. I do it simply because of my own experience. Everybody has a huge pile of things to do everyday and they keep adding to the pile and many many things get forgotten or slips down in priority and I only try to bring back things to the top of the pile. Obviously I have a great memory to be able to do this consistently with many people on many fronts. So what is the secret to my good memory? I wish it was some glamorous thing like that and I could tell you my diet for the reliable memory. The reality is, I had a massive stroke years ago and my memory is worse than anyone who I know. Definitely much worse than myself before my stroke. So what is the secret behind it? The secret is knowing I have a very poor and unreliable memory - and accepting it ful