Only somewhat relatedly… something I found useful when recovering from brain damage was developing the habit of: a) telling myself explicitly, out loud, what I was about to do, why I was about to do it, and what I needed to do next, and b) when I found myself suddenly lost and confused, explicitly asking myself, out loud, what I was doing, why I was doing it, what I needed to do next.
I found that the explicit verbal scaffolding often helped me remember things that the more implicit mechanisms that were damaged by the injury (I had a lot of deficits to attention, short-term memory, that sort of thing) could no longer do.
It also got me a lot of strange looks, which I somewhat perversely came to appreciate.
Only somewhat relatedly… something I found useful when recovering from brain damage was developing the habit of:
a) telling myself explicitly, out loud, what I was about to do, why I was about to do it, and what I needed to do next, and
b) when I found myself suddenly lost and confused, explicitly asking myself, out loud, what I was doing, why I was doing it, what I needed to do next.
I found that the explicit verbal scaffolding often helped me remember things that the more implicit mechanisms that were damaged by the injury (I had a lot of deficits to attention, short-term memory, that sort of thing) could no longer do.
It also got me a lot of strange looks, which I somewhat perversely came to appreciate.