Comment by gexla

Understanding is more important than recall. The brain does a great job at making connections and dumping what's not important. The important stuff gets absorbed like muscle memory. Even if it's not at the tip of the tongue, it's part of the knowledge borg and emerges at the right time.

Total recall might not even be possible. Information is relative. It transmits different messages to different people. Each of us is constantly changing, so the information also changes. Whatever thing that the information was at one time, that thing rots as soon as it's saved (same words, different thing.)

The rational brain likes to collect stuff and do busy work. Thank goodness for the emotional brain which gets tired, bored and concludes with "this is stupid" before nudging the rest of the brain to move on to something else.

Not sure what the point of my comment is. When I want to access information, I just Google it. Also, it's important to publish stuff. Get the work in front of people for feedback. If it's not paying some sort of rent (fighting off some other higher value of something to do) then it's just cargo-culting. Much better to pass the time by going outside to play and get in trouble like we did when we were South Park age.