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What occupations have good short-term memory?
I was driving somewhere recently and realized that every time I drive and someone else is giving directions, I have to ask them where I'm going next at least three times. It's as if I ask what the next turn is and decide to ignore the next thing they say. Then I realized that I feel exactly the same way when I learn someone's name for the first time.
I've never had a taxi driver ask me to repeat where I'm going (other than if he* didn't understand me the first time). I wonder if they're also good at remembering names. I was trying to think of other occupations that might have above-average short-term memories. Bartenders? Barbers? *I was wondering if I should type he/she, but then I realized that I don't think I've ever had a female taxi driver. Weird. |
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
porno stars
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
Bartenders for sure, and shopkeepers where you buy lotsa small things (sweetie shops).
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Its pretty easy to improve your short term memory if you want to. Just use it regularly. Learn to play chess, you don't have to play very well to improve it if you are actually trying 2 hours a week. Heck just remembering your golf score without using a card will help.
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
[ QUOTE ]
Its pretty easy to improve your short term memory if you want to. Just use it regularly. Learn to play chess, you don't have to play very well to improve it if you are actually trying 2 hours a week. Heck just remembering your golf score without using a card will help. [/ QUOTE ] I would like to see some evidence that chess improves short term memory because I played and studied 10+hrs/wk for 3 years and my short term memory still and always has sucked. |
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
I think something like chess can work on it indirectly, because you have to memorize a little to think X number of moves ahead. Then next turn the situation changes a little to a lot. Same with Go.
Card counting in blackjack requires very short term memory. You're constantly moving numbers through matrix tables in your mind, very quickly, and then forgetting about them instantly, remembering only the count. Which is itself constantly changing. I have another one -- the guys who work taking orders in the pit at the stock exchange and commodities exchanges. They hear everybody shouting from all directions and waving their arms, gotta be distracting and intense as hell, and often take down several orders at once, and it might as well be life and death, for the insane amount of money involved that the process every few seconds. And it's all based on your word, basically. |
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
Servers
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
Bartenders was a good one, waiters and waitresses even better.
Poker dealers have to have pretty good short-term memory, too, or it's hard to keep track of the table and resolve disputes. Players will claim anything that gets them the pot, and sometimes their friends will chime in too to help them out, or people will just remember falsely. A poker dealer with a bad short-term memory can take a lot of well-deserved crap from players. Any lawyers who actually try cases have to have good short-term memory, because their whole cases can rely on one or two tiny facts brought out in live testimony. If they don't remember something, they can screw their client pretty bad. |
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
Uh, what was the question again?
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Re: What occupations have good short-term memory?
Fat,
If you have to use your short term memory for a certain type of information over and over again as a Cab Driver, you will get used to it fairly quickly. Regards, Tony P |
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