If you could have any skill
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To have an anti-anger ability.
I could make so many more level-headed and wise decisions if I almost never got angry.
I could make so many more level-headed and wise decisions if I almost never got angry.
Let us know how it goes, Im acctually really concerned about you now.Haunted Serenity said:
As for a skill, I'd like to be able to shot that darn golfball where I aim it.
Yea, I dont have big goals in life.
This, or just learn to make games. Or to play Piano perfectly in first sight.Audio said:
I am a pianist BTW, I just need to perfect my sight reading skills.
To have either artistic skill or to play the piano, I want to learn, but not that much, but I still want to. And I don't have time. Yeah, piano.
"Full-blown eidetic memory" is pretty much a myth.J03bot said:
"Photographic memory" is about the quality of recollection, not the efficiency. Nobody can just flip through a text and memorise all of the info it contains in twenty seconds. It just means the images they do remember will be very vivid.
In fact, almost none of the world's greatest memory competition winners state any claim of having 'eidetic' memories. They all use special training and techniques like mneumonics.
There IS a condition called hyperthymesia, which is extremely rare (there's been like four cases worldwide), where people perfectly remember every single second of their own lives (you could name a date and time and they could tell you where they were, and what the weather was like), but this is often accompanied by psychoneurological disorders like OCD or synaesthesia.
Simply speaking, the 'forgetting mechanism' of their brain, which filters out trivial details, is broken.
Also, everyone's memory is "photographic" (i.e. makes pictures out of light patterns). Which just adds to the very ill-defined concept of "photographic memories" (people say it like it's a very specific, well-defined phenomena, when it really isn't). A better way of putting is just saying you have a 'good memory', or an 'accurate memory'.
Edit: And I have never heard of people with better memories forgetting their early memories faster/sooner. There's a lot of variables that affect memory, which we haven't even begun to understand. We barely even understand what memories are, how they're formed or where they're stored. It's WAAAY too early to start generalising. The idea that our brains have a limited, static amount of "storage space" is a bit simplistic when it comes to psychoneurobiological processes.
I wish I could skateboard. xD Each time I try I just end up busting either my elbow or my hip, which doesn't exactly getting up the next day an easy task.
Or a better affinity for languages. I can't remember anything I learned in Spanish or French.
Or a better affinity for languages. I can't remember anything I learned in Spanish or French.
