I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
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People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.
We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.