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How my mind works

SarcasticDwarf

SarcasticDwarf

Diamond Member
I'm wondering how weird this is.

I never directly remember anything. This means that if you ask me what someone's birthday is, unless I have it memorized to the point where I can say it without thought, I have to use the following method.

I'll start with answering multiple choice questions. Answering these and any other questions is the same way. When I see a question, I simply read the question and look at the answers. I know which is the right one by feeling. It is a lot like knowing exactly where the sun is with your eyes closed.

Obviously (if you are understanding at this point), it makes essays more difficult. For essays and everyday conversation, I pretty much use whatever pops to the front of my mind. Also, this means I almost never "think" about a question (and so am almost always the first to finish a test).


Disclaimers:
~3.0 GPA
IQ = 122 when I was tested at about age 10 (have not done it since), so i'm not a genious but I have always read at VERY high levels
Never done drugs
Had over 1 cup of sugar in the past 5 hours and have been working on an essay for the past 12.
 
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
I'm wondering how weird this is.

I never directly remember anything. This means that if you ask me what someone's birthday is, unless I have it memorized to the point where I can say it without thought, I have to use the following method.

I'll start with answering multiple choice questions. Answering these and any other questions is the same way. When I see a question, I simply read the question and look at the answers. I know which is the right one by feeling. It is a lot like knowing exactly where the sun is with your eyes closed.

Obviously (if you are understanding at this point), it makes essays more difficult. For essays and everyday conversation, I pretty much use whatever pops to the front of my mind. Also, this means I almost never "think" about a question (and so am almost always the first to finish a test).


Disclaimers:
~3.0 GPA
IQ = 122 when I was tested at about age 10 (have not done it since), so i'm not a genious but I have always read at VERY high levels
Never done drugs
Had over 1 cup of sugar in the past 5 hours and have been working on an essay for the past 12.
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Nutcase.
 
In college, I went to a class (called foundations of inquiry. ISU students know) about 4 times. The final was on movies that I never watched, and some stuff on the "beats in african tribal music" I had no fricking clue on any of the 6 questions, which were all essay BTW.

I set the curve. Go me!
 
ok, clarification: where do you get the multiple choice options? so if i ask you when someones birthday is, do you randomly select 4 possible answers, but somehow your subconscious sticks the correct one in there?
 
Originally posted by: LtPage1
ok, clarification: where do you get the multiple choice options? so if i ask you when someones birthday is, do you randomly select 4 possible answers, but somehow your subconscious sticks the correct one in there?
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With something like that, it simply pops into my mind. I don't "think". It's either there or it isn't.
 
Part of your superior deduction skills must be linked to your high reading level. If you keep on reading and have decent retention, sooner or later you know a little bit about pretty much everything. From there, a decent logical mind can make a pretty good guess just by the sentence configuration and your own thoughts on what is probably a test-worthy answer.
 
so you are able to recall things good, however, when just trying to think of something out of the blue, it's tough. Yea, I sometimes get that way ... sometimes I'll be typing up a long email, and I'll be at a point where I'm looking for a specific word, but I can't remember what the word is, so I'll look at like thesaurus.com or something, and be like, dammit, why didn't I remember that word. blah!
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
In college, I went to a class (called foundations of inquiry. ISU students know) about 4 times. The final was on movies that I never watched, and some stuff on the "beats in african tribal music" I had no fricking clue on any of the 6 questions, which were all essay BTW.

I set the curve. Go me!
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LMFAO :laugh:

Cheers Evadman :beer:

 
Originally posted by: yllus
Part of your superior deduction skills must be linked to your high reading level. If you keep on reading and have decent retention, sooner or later you know a little bit about pretty much everything. From there, a decent logical mind can make a pretty good guess just by the sentence configuration and your own thoughts on what is probably a test-worthy answer.
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That actually makes sense. I was reading at a college level when they finally tested me in 5th grade. I read all the time (I regularly got kicked out of class for reading a book during class), so the sentence structure part makes sense. It's failrly easy to figure out many multiple choice answers based on the wording (in lower level classes).
 
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
so you are able to recall things good, however, when just trying to think of something out of the blue, it's tough. Yea, I sometimes get that way ... sometimes I'll be typing up a long email, and I'll be at a point where I'm looking for a specific word, but I can't remember what the word is, so I'll look at like thesaurus.com or something, and be like, dammit, why didn't I remember that word. blah!
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I am a stickler for word choice (though not on AT obviously). My mom is even worse. Every couple of weeks one of us calls the other and we figure out what word we are trying to use.
 
Originally posted by: everman
Originally posted by: venk
My Mind:

99.1% Sex
0.08% How to make money so getting sex is easier.
0.01% Everything Else
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That's 99.19, what happened to the rest?
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That's secret. If I tell you, i'll have to kill you. 😛
 
how MY mynd works... My memory tends to be good most of the time, but sometimes ( and totally out of the blue) I also tend to forget things that are very easy to remember. I don't like to read a lot unless it's something that has to do with math , programming or physics. I am a good writer , but I can also be a crappy one from time to time. I learned to speak and write in english in less than four months ( I was 15). However, my memory is not what it used to be. Sometimes I think it's because it's harder to memorize stuff that it is not in my native language or because my memory IS really getting worse, I wish I'd know the reason. 🙁

Regards

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