My honest answer? I ended up dating someone who was constantly on my case about being forgetful, forgetting names, details, being scatter brained, blah blah blah. Miraculously, that didn't drive them away and, now, just over a year of dating later, I've noticed I've developed new mental habits to train myself to remember details, in order to avoid the negative reinforcement of my S. Sorry, I'm not sure if this is something you can very effectively optimize for and maybe shouldn't! This is actually a great answer.
Why People Who Are Scatterbrained Are Actually More Intelligent
Scatterbrained People Are Basically Geniuses | YourTango
And your seemingly messy life is a result of your completely scatterbrained state of being. Your desk is flooded with loose pieces of paper. You have a hard time keeping track of certain belongings, specifically tubes of chapstick and credit cards. You clean your room, but it usually only manages to stay that way for a day -- maybe two -- at the most. Sloppiness leads to error, they say, insisting instead that cleanliness is a requirement for success. But this has never really bothered you.
Scatterbrained People Are Basically Geniuses, Says Psychology
There's a lot of truth to the stereotype of the absent-minded professor. Your ideas actually need to be battling one another for you to become inspired. It's not so much a question of thinking outside the box, as it is allowing the mind to move through multiple boxes. That movement from box to box forces the mind to approach intellectual road blocks from new angles, or to borrow tools from one discipline to solve problems in another. Johnson also believes that people whose minds wander a lot are more creative and better problem solvers.
For a true scatterbrain, daily life is both a struggle and infinitely interesting — and the internet has nothing to do with it. This overload leaves our working memory unable to process things like what we were doing a minute ago, before we got distracted clearly. As someone who has come to terms with my scatterbrained tendencies, I can attest to having what feels like a dozen thoughts going on inside my mind at once —which on more than occasion lead to a misplaced cell phone and house keys left hanging in the front door. But being scatterbrained doesn't mean you're not smart — we're some of the most intelligent and creative people around, because our unfocused minds enable us to be highly imaginative which is totally a fair trade for all those time we left the house with the curling iron still plugged in.