# Procedural /Habit memory
**URL:** https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/procedural-habit-memory/74102
**Category:** General Memory Chat
**Created:** [June 5, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/procedural-habit-memory/74102 "2022-06-05T16:03:28Z")
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### Author:  [@MARK00](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/MARK00)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/procedural-habit-memory/74102/1 "2022-06-05T16:03:28Z")
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before; but I have found when I did 3 months in retail, the procedures to work came almost automatically/ rapidly when working for awhile in the job.
If you automatically made ‘cues’ [for example, the icon symbols on PC, or locations in store] and then you were repeating the work / cues for months, you would consider this long term knowledge.
This would seem transferable skills eg shown a useful way to perform a task; and wanting to retain this if working in a similar role years later.
After 3 months, you would think the knowledge is well ingrained but it seemed to fade shortly after leaving the job.
Can anyone explain this?
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### Author:  [@docraymund](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/docraymund)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2022, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/procedural-habit-memory/74102/3 "2022-06-06T10:35:36Z")
It’s like muscle memory. You remember by doing and practicing. However you also forget after a while of not rehearsing it but it will come back quickly after a refresher course.