The biggest lie we tell ourselves every day

Ben Arthur

Ben Arthur

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"I don't need to write that down, I'll definitely remember it."

Let's be honest. You won't remember it.

Whether it's a random item to grab at the grocery store, a brilliant thought you had in the shower, or a small task you need to do tomorrow morning, the moment you trust your brain to hold onto it, it's gone forever.

I swear my brain just wipes itself completely clean the second I log off at 10 PM.

Save yourself the headache and just use a notepad app.

Who else falls for this trap on a daily basis? :)
 
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Oh my, everyday man. Even more when i'm developing a system or an app, i always think "i gotta keep track of X to use in the future", and i always ended up forgeting that. Thank God claude allows to keep track of those things in it's memory, so i just end up asking it lol
 
Its all those hours of watching instagram/tiktok shorts - makes our brain a mush with the memory of a gold fish and retention spam of a 5 year old.
 
I use Anki to memorize important knowledge

And my personal Whatsapp conversation to write down some reminders. Or set an alarm.
 
i used to be the same until i started using voice notes instead. way faster than typing, especially when you're half asleep or walking around. now i just scream random ideas into my phone at 3am like a lunatic. my voice memos are a mess but at least the ideas actually survive the night lmao
 
Ben Arthur said:
"I don't need to write that down, I'll definitely remember it."

Let's be honest. You won't remember it.

Whether it's a random item to grab at the grocery store, a brilliant thought you had in the shower, or a small task you need to do tomorrow morning, the moment you trust your brain to hold onto it, it's gone forever.

I swear my brain just wipes itself completely clean the second I log off at 10 PM.

Save yourself the headache and just use a notepad app.

Who else falls for this trap on a daily basis? :)
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Guilty
I just did this yesterday
But this days..it's easy
Record or take a pic

And you are done
 
i just noticed this about me lately i just forget things easily and that is not like me, maybe i am overstressing myself lately i dont even know
 
I have to set an alarm to remind me of pretty much everything... I could use notepad but I would forget to look at it!
 
One more thing and im done for today.. 10 hours later..

One more year and i stop doing what i do.. here we are still doing it
 
I just talk to myself and I'm surprised to eventually get to what I remembered.
 
Guilty. The worst part is I'll have a genuinely good idea, tell myself it's too good to forget, and it's gone by the time I find a pen. Now everything goes straight into my phone notes, even the dumb stuff – half my best ideas would've died in the shower otherwise.
Ben Arthur said:
"I don't need to write that down, I'll definitely remember it."

Let's be honest. You won't remember it.

Whether it's a random item to grab at the grocery store, a brilliant thought you had in the shower, or a small task you need to do tomorrow morning, the moment you trust your brain to hold onto it, it's gone forever.

I swear my brain just wipes itself completely clean the second I log off at 10 PM.

Save yourself the headache and just use a notepad app.

Who else falls for this trap on a daily basis? :)
Click to expand...
Guilty. The worst part is I'll have a genuinely good idea, tell myself it's too good to forget, and it's gone by the time I find a pen. Now everything goes straight into my phone notes, even the dumb stuff – half my best ideas would've died in the shower otherwise.
 
forgetting mobile phone or bike key while get out from home
 
Definitely relatable. Small ideas and small tasks vanish sooner than we think, especially with multiple projects. A small note or reminder will take mere seconds and save us a lot of brainpower afterwards.
 
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