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

Write down everything you want to memorize on paper, by hand. Repeat it to yourself out loud over, and over, and over again.

Then burn the paper you wrote everything on.

Now rewrite it all from memory.