My Pen, Notebook and Short-Term Memory

I am someone who was born with so much hunger for learning.. I always love to read and engage in activities that will provide new experiences and feed unknown information to me. However, I lack the focus as to what type of information I wanted to deal with. There's a vast load of information out there and which one would I focus on that would be on my advantage? Well, that would be discussed separately.

Aside from the focus, wish I could have a great memory. What saddens me is that I have this so-called "short-term memory loss" Yeah! I cannot keep trivial things on a longer scale. Ask me what I wear yesterday or what did I had for dinner, more often that not, it would be hard for me to recall it. 

My passion for gaining information and my inability to recall trivial things was resolved by a notebook and a pen. Yes, as an HR personnel, I always receive a vast of information, a handful of requests and a long list of to do works that whenever they come together at the same time, I will no be able to handle all of them if I will not list down everything in my notepad. It's been automatic, in which I viewed as my way of coping up with this weakness.

Same thing, when I read a book (especially if it's just a borrowed one) I used to jot down (yes, again I have this personal notebook just for this purpose - well, my diary is a different story) the everything that is striking to me or I feel is very imporant for me to remember. This process also enables me to process the passage at the same time. Because of this, I was able to compile a book which contains excerpts from different books, quotes, stories, poems or whatever that seems to be very important for me to keep. Where is it now? Well.. 

Given this limit will not stop me from searching and learning new things.. I will always have a new notebook and pen with me anyway.. :)