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

Weirdly ties into a description of why childhood time seems to be slower than adult time. I read that it was basically that they had more ‘time stamps’ I translate that as more memory points. Could be explained by easier emotional fluctuations. As an adult there seems to be less ‘time stamps’ so maybe we just don’t flip emotions so quickly and especially if affected by depression. Man.. Being grown up is rubbish.