I think we expect too much of ourselves.
There is more information exchanged just online in one day than was even available to the entire world 100 years ago. It's not that you are deficient. It's that the world of information has mutated into a monster.
Some people remember facts and book learning and other people can visually remember how to get to a place they have only ever been once, ten years ago. Some people remember names, others remember faces.
I remember the streets all my friends and acquaintances lived on when I was a teen, and their birthdays to boot, but I can't remember things I learned in school. I have to take notes to remember what I read in a book even recently.
But the act of learning, to me, isn't about the facts being stored in a memory bank somewhere for easy retrieval. It's about the process.
Jennifer
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