One of the major symptoms of my stroke was seriously truncated working memory, and I spent months both training it back and learning to work around the limitations of it.
So i agree that there are strategies that can overcome the limits of working memory,though I wouldn’t describe them as “thinking more”… it was more like saving state externally on a regular basis, and developing useful habits of interacting with that saved state. More generally, it’s not a question of doing the same thing for longer, it’s a question of doing different things that end up taking longer. It’s “thinking differently, for longer.”
That being said, though, I cannot begin to describe how much smarter I felt (and seemed) when the damage began to heal and I could start doing stuff in my head again.
It’s a bit unclear without the context, but what he means is that subjects should think more about the task and realize that they need to, e.g. use a pen and paper.
One of the major symptoms of my stroke was seriously truncated working memory, and I spent months both training it back and learning to work around the limitations of it.
So i agree that there are strategies that can overcome the limits of working memory,though I wouldn’t describe them as “thinking more”… it was more like saving state externally on a regular basis, and developing useful habits of interacting with that saved state. More generally, it’s not a question of doing the same thing for longer, it’s a question of doing different things that end up taking longer. It’s “thinking differently, for longer.”
That being said, though, I cannot begin to describe how much smarter I felt (and seemed) when the damage began to heal and I could start doing stuff in my head again.
It’s a bit unclear without the context, but what he means is that subjects should think more about the task and realize that they need to, e.g. use a pen and paper.