I talk every now and then about my friend who got me into poker.
One time a few years ago after a session where I watched him play for a few hours I said to him, "Do you remember the hand where you had XY and did ABC?" He said, "I remember *all* my hands."
Bob148 said something similar to me very early in my 2+2 "career".
At the end of a live session, I barely remember a single hand I played. The same thing happened to me when I used to be a performer (guitar, singer etc. - yes, I used to do that and people used to pretend to enjoy it
). The same thing happened when I played tennis. At the end of a concert I didn't remember a second of it. At the end of a tennis match I would maybe remember 1 or 2 memorable points but other than that I just had to kind of take it on faith that it happened.
Usually when I go see standup comedians, I remember laughing myself to a stomachache but I hardly remember any jokes - it's like they go from one joke to the next so quickly there's no opportunity to "commit one to memory" before moving on.
Lately I've started taking little notes on my phone between hands, like "AKs flopped a flush draw". Sometimes that little pneumonic helps me access the part of my brain that holds the rest of the hand and I recall all of it, other times I'm like, "What was I smoking when I typed THAT?" (and I don't even smoke!).
Anyway, the point is, am I probably not as far along in my development now as I would be if I'd had better ability to recall pasts hands for the last several years?
Is this a problem I should try to solve for the sake of my ability to continue to improve in the future?
Advice will (as always) be appreciated.
DTXCF