It isn’t that you can remember a date of an assassination——
It is that you can train your brain to remember ANYTHING.
A friend had a daughter who didn’t get good grades in a majority of her classes. I asked her WHY? Girl said—”I never can remember anything”. I am talking about a junior in high school who couldn’t do multiplication tables in her head. NONE AT ALL. Couln’t make change for paper bills.
BUT-—then the radio in the car came on with a BRAND NEW country song, which she knew every single word & note of.
I pointed that out to her-—that she could remember songs, but not her lessons. I told her-—YOU CAN REMEMBER-—you just choose NOT TO. She didn’t talk to me for days.
Music is a different mechanism.
And some people are not auditory learners.
If someone gives me directions to somewhere verbally, I can make it to the first light and turn right and that’s it.
If I see a map or especially if I draw a map, I can throw it out right away and not need it again. I am able to get a picture in my mind’s eye of the map and see it there.
I CANNOT do that by hearing.
People’s brains are wired differently and what works for one does not work for another. So no, it’s not a matter of *want to*.