私は残念ながら記憶力があまりよくない。
私の育った家庭はみんなよくなくて、私がその中では一番いいぐらいだった。
特に単純記憶はかなり悪くて、それこそ大学受験を頂点とする受験システムではかなり苦労するタイプだった。
ただ、小さい頃から、父から自分たちが記憶力が悪いことは言われていて、「大学に入るまでは大変だけど、その先は記憶力では勝負にならないから」という話をずっとされていた。
確かにそうだったかな。少なくとも仕事を始めてから、単純に覚えればいい仕事に出会ったことはない。
子供を産み、長男次男は記憶力がよい。
ゆえに勉強といえば覚えるんだと思い込んでしまうところがあり、数学系は私より苦労した。
代わりに苦もなくテスト前の勉強だけで点数が取れる教科もある。
三男はびっくりするぐらい記憶力が悪いし、その上覚える努力をほとんどしない。
私と一緒で数学が一番楽ちんだ。
そもそもあまりにも覚えないから、記憶力が勝負になる日本の教育をやめさせて、中学からは別の教育法を選択している。
私の話に戻ると、今でも仕事で簡単な数字を覚えられなくて、その観点では実は結構苦労したりする。
数字に弱いとダメとかよく言うじゃん。
数字の感覚は大丈夫なんだけど、数値そのものはすぐに忘れちゃうんだ。
けれども、生まれたときからの能力だから実はそんなに困らないんだよね。
まぁそのぐらいは仕方ない。
自分の弱いとこは知っとく必要はあるけど、無理して治す必要ないし。
きっと記憶力がよくない故に伸びた能力があり、それを使ってるんだろうから、その方がずっといいよね。
Unfortunately, I don't have a very good memory.
Everyone in my family was not good and I was about the best of the bunch.
In particular, my simple memory was pretty bad and we were the type of persons who would have a very hard time in the examination system, which culminated in the university entrance exam.
However, ever since I was a child, my father always told me that we had a bad memory and that it would be hard until we got into university but after that, nobody would not be able to win with only good memories.
I guess that is true. At least since I started working, I've never encountered a job that I could simply remember.
After having children, my first and second sons have good memories.
Therefore, when it comes to studying, they tend to assume that they have to memorize and they had a harder time than I did with math-related subjects.
Instead, some subjects can be scored for them without any difficulty, just by studying before the test.
My youngest son has an astonishingly poor memory and on top of that, he has made little effort to remember.
With me, math is the easiest. With him as well.
Because he can't remember so much to begin with, I had him to stop Japanese education where memory is the name of the game and to choose a different education method from junior high school.
Back to my story, I still can't remember simple numbers at work and I actually struggle a lot from that perspective.
You know how people often say that successful business persons should have good memories with numbers?
I have a good sense of numbers but I easily forget the numbers themselves.
However, it's an ability I've had since birth, so I don't really have much trouble with it.
Well, that much is inevitable.
I need to know my weaknesses but I don't need to force myself to fix them.
I'm sure I have abilities that have grown because I don't have a good memory and I am using them, so that's much better.
