why our brains can form arbitrary memories from seemingly random events and recall them perfectly but its hard to memorize something when you are intentionally trying to memorize it?

Question

why our brains can form arbitrary memories from seemingly random events and recall them perfectly but its hard to memorize something when you are intentionally trying to memorize it?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I’m kind of the opposite. I can remember and pick up technical things at work really fast and remember them.

Don’t ask me what we talked about 5 minutes ago though.