1.) Navigating… in any capacity, whether on foot or by car. For example, I can almost never remember where I park. Or how to get places unless I go there regularly.
To solve the driving part of this, I bought a GPS.
2.) Remembering names/faces. I once introduced myself to the same person twice in the same day.
I try to make mnemonics with letters of that person’s name and repeat it three or four times after I’ve heard the name.
3.) Reading emails. I had a professor this year who sent out 12 emails regarding one assignment; in the same day. He would start his emails in the subject line, so the body of the email began mid-sentence. After a semester with him, I’ve lost my will to actually read emails.
I have to force myself to go through emails line by line now.
Putting off seeing a particular musician (telling myself I’ll catch them when they come around next), only to regret it after they’ve died (this has happened 3x already).
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Putting off seeing a particular musician (telling myself I’ll catch them when they come around next), only to regret it after they’ve died (this has happened 3x already). [/quote]
Have you been killing musicians because you missed seeing them?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Putting off seeing a particular musician (telling myself I’ll catch them when they come around next), only to regret it after they’ve died (this has happened 3x already). [/quote]
Ummmm, Phil Collins is still alive. You have time.
I’ll go with you on navigating. I’m horrible at it in my car, but I’ve got a GPS so these days it isn’t as bad as it used to be. Probably has a lot to do with the fact that I’m just generally not that big of a fan of driving, it’s just a means to an end for me.
I don’t have as much trouble with names as I used to, I got better around the time I started slamming nootropics like pez, granted I generally flex my brain muscles harder than ever, too.
I’m miserable at keeping a regular schedule, my sleep cycle is all over the place. I wake up at 1PM some days and 7AM on others. Not doing anything about it, despite it biting me in the ass constantly.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Putting off seeing a particular musician (telling myself I’ll catch them when they come around next), only to regret it after they’ve died (this has happened 3x already). [/quote]
LOL!
My cousin told me about how she went to a Jimi Hendrix concert when she was younger and bought a t-shirt from the concert. Soon after, she was playing a pickup game of soccer with friends and it got a huge rip in it.
She thought to herself “I’ll just throw this one out and buy another from his next concert when he’s in town.”
[quote]DJHT wrote:
I dont consider anything as a failure, if I didnt achieve something, then I learned and moved on. I dont look back. [/quote]
I guess shortcomings might be a better word.[/quote]
I know your point and not being a dick. Approaching 40 with 5 kids and 14 years of college, I just taught myself not to look back. Always look ahead and never give up. Setbacks occur but they are just that delays not failures.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
I dont consider anything as a failure, if I didnt achieve something, then I learned and moved on. I dont look back. [/quote]
I guess shortcomings might be a better word.[/quote]
“Failures” would’ve been a better word than “failings.”
:)[/quote]
Eh, not to too pedantic… but in my mind “failures” implies that the acts are a one-time event. “Failings,” on the other hand implies that it’s a continuous problem.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
I dont consider anything as a failure, if I didnt achieve something, then I learned and moved on. I dont look back. [/quote]
I guess shortcomings might be a better word.[/quote]
I know your point and not being a dick. Approaching 40 with 5 kids and 14 years of college, I just taught myself not to look back. Always look ahead and never give up. Setbacks occur but they are just that delays not failures. [/quote]
I see your point. But I also view the process as looking ahead in the sense that there are things I know I can improve about myself, without necessarily thinking of them as failures.
I’m so good in bed that women swarm me whenever I go outside, this has lead me to failing at relationships. I also have a huge penis which causes me to fail at buying pants/shorts that don’t reveal the shape of my manhood.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Putting off seeing a particular musician (telling myself I’ll catch them when they come around next), only to regret it after they’ve died (this has happened 3x already). [/quote]
Ummmm, Phil Collins is still alive. You have time.[/quote]
