How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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Dude I can remember my friends’ friends’ birthdays and sometimes their spouses’ birthdays. Do I want to remember those? No. I just remember them for no reason. Not just that, I remember taking a helicopter in new Zealand when I was three and crying because of it, I can recall how the volcano smelt like a rotten egg when I went near it when I was 8 and much more memories when I was younger. Sometimes my friends would ask me what their friends told them a decade ago and I would remind them what they said and they would be like “oh yes thanks now I recall those”. I’m not sure if having such a memory is a good or bad thing because I can recall these moments in vivid detail.