Details are very important

No matter what you may think, the details are very important...to everyone. You can try to deny it, but fighting it won't change this fact. Here's what I learned a couple of years ago from a little experiment of my own. I decided one day (just woke up and made this decision) that I would try and remember everything that I learned, even if it didn't seem important at the time, and the way I would do would be to write everything down. The day seemed long and the details of it were extensive, but by the time I was ready to jump into bed I had composed a compendium of little things that I had learned and found out during my waking hours. The result of this experiment was profound. The next day I remembered nearly every jot and tiddle that I had written the previous day on my makeshift notepad (an old folded up assignment from math class I think). An increased memory capacity was not the only advantage to my unlikely effort, but also I impressed those with whom I had made contact on the day before by the things that I remembered. What was on my list? Everything from eye-color to names, to fingernail polish color and shoe type, to things I was supposed to get done by the next day and even new words I had heard during the day, of which I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning was. I can't say that I've been good to make this a habit, but I can say that the small effort I have put forth has changed the way I do things from day to day. I first experimented with this idea in 2002, and since have had some great advantages in life. It takes a little exhertion to do and a lot of discipline, along with a piece of paper, a hand, a notebook, or even pants if you don't mind writing on them, and some sort of writing utensil. On television I have seen many different packages that boast they will make your memory better, but what I have found out, is that my mind remembers what I do. Therefore if I just think of something over and over again, it tends to become jumbled with the many other things on my mind, but if I WRITE it, then my mind remembers the action of having written it. It works for job interviews, friends, new acquaintances, possible future dates, meetings, Sunday School, and math tests - yes, I find that the more homework I do, the better I do on my tests in College, as difficult as some of them are. Basically if I wrote it, then chances are, that I can at a minimum remember the strokes I made, and then be able to decipher the scribles after having rewritten them. Back to basics doesn't give you much - get Back to Details!