I read a wonderful article about Price in National Geographic sometime last year. The most important feature of the NT article, which is overlooked here, is why Price's 'personal' memory is faultless while her memory, in general, is average.
One psychologist suggested it was because Price had an intimate and unrelentingly interest in herself, as her extensive diaries suggest. So, if you enthusiastically submerge yourself in an area of study memories come.
I think there's an important lesson here: above all else love what you do.
Of course, if I were compelled to remember every single event of my life in perfect detail I'd probably get really interested in myself, too. My own past would be everywhere. I'd never really be able to escape it. It would probably be hard to focus on much else.
So, as the title suggests, there's a feedback loop here.
I really feel for this woman -- this is a terrible condition. Perhaps the fact that she isn't completely crippled by PTSD is a tribute to her skill at self-analysis. It may be that she has had to become a conscious expert on herself just to be able to talk herself through the fear.
I find that hard to believe. There are plenty of self-absorbed people who don't have exceptional memory. If anything, it's the other way around: she's self-interested because she has perfect episodal memory.
I read a wonderful article about Price in National Geographic sometime last year. The most important feature of the NT article, which is overlooked here, is why Price's 'personal' memory is faultless while her memory, in general, is average.
One psychologist suggested it was because Price had an intimate and unrelentingly interest in herself, as her extensive diaries suggest. So, if you enthusiastically submerge yourself in an area of study memories come.
I think there's an important lesson here: above all else love what you do.