Are you a "lazy learner"?

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I saw an autistic man once describe how he was being taught a lesson, but
he wasn't told to "store" the information, so he just forgot it.
Once he understood which information he was supposed to keep, though, he was very good.

I find that I am the same way, very explicit and economical about what I remember.

Also quite lazy, but in a smart way I think - lazy about stuff that doesn't matter.

I might be.
Because remembering every detail is too exhausting for me.
Doesn't help that my memory issues got worse past teenage years.

So I only took the essentials.
Paraphrasing every sentence in my head instead of recalling it all in verbatim.

And most of my problems are coming from language comprehension. So recalling it all in verbatim is not only exhausting but also redundant and useless.

Everything else is poor verbal processing.
I can be reading something, over and over, and will not register because of how I may interpret it.
Poor verbal short term memory and recall would also make me a terrible auditory learner.

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It's not lazy, it's highly efficient. That's how I justify such things anyway. My memory is crap so trying to retain a bunch of unnecessary stuff is going to be nothing short of problematic and counterproductive for me.

Yes I'm a bit of a memory-miser. I usually just write things down rather than try to commit them to memory, because my memory isn't perfect.

I have a tendency to struggle when learning about things that I find boring. My notes are all over the place and if I'm really lacking in motivation the notes might just become hastily drawn visualisations instead of words. Especially if I've forgot the word for an object, then I might just draw a quick shaky outline for reference. The notes I write in my ideas notebook are by far the most chaotic.

I also tend to mentally logout. What did I learn from that session? Excellent question. Too bad you missed Work me, Free Time me has never met her. However, if you allow me to put on formal clothes and sit in a formal chair, then suddenly I remember. I am now in the correct mode for this question.

When I was young I used to absorb information like a sponge. I just remembered easily, and had an easy time of it at school as a result (though I was always stressed out worrying that I wasn't going to do well on tests). Now that I'm old I don't remember anything. I even have trouble watching detective shows on TV or streaming, which I do all the time, because I don't remember the characters' names and I lose track of who they are talking about. It would be great if I could just remember the relevant stuff and let the rest slide by.