Intricacies of The Human Brain

As I've continued to watch 30 day challenge videos, study web page optimization on my own and write as much family history as I can remember, I've been amazed by the intricacies of the human brain.

For instance, did you know the brain doesn't store memories chronologically, or categorically? NO. It stores them by association. I've known this for a long time, but it's one of the little facts that I've remembered as I've been studying and writing. As I was studying the free SEO training at Web CEO, there were some little tidbits of information that I knew, but couldn't associate with anything else I knew. As I studied I kept thinking "OH that's how that works. . .and this is how I could use it!" If I can't see where something I'm studying is related to what I want to do at the moment, it just gets lost and my brain eventually files it in the misc. file til there's something to associate it with.

The same thing happened with the family history my daughter asked me to write. I sat down to write what I thought would be a couple of pages of short sentences about the stories passed down from previous generations. I've got five pages now and I'm still not finished. As I write one story, I remember something in my lifetime that I haven't thought of in years, and I know if I don't write that down right now It will escape and may not be remembered again for years, but what I remember of my lifetime is associated with what was happening in my life at the time I heard the story told. So what I've written of the family history so far is a rambling dissertation that will have to be sorted out and arranged chronologically later.

And now I'm not only rambling, I'm writing run on sentences and that's not good. Time to get off here and eat some lunch.