I’ve taught myself to create a visual fingerprint of when I do things that normally forget if I’ve done or would be bad if I ever forgot. I remember the surrounding scenery and my exact mannerisms when I do things like locking the door or turning something off.
That way, when I have those doubts I reply it in my mind and see all the unique details related to me performing the task. “Oh, yeah, I did lock the front door because I had to look at my key to make sure it was right side up.” And the doubt disappears.
I’ve decided to just leverage my ego. Past me was in a good state of mind and is competent and would not have made that mistake. I wouldn’t distrust past me, would I?
how do you know you aren’t remembering a different day? Like, you remember seeing yourself turn off the stove, but then you wonder if that was yesterday or today.
Not the same person, but to me there’s a different feel to the lingering fingerprint of a recent working memory and the memory of longer-term storage. It’s enough to matter.
I’ve just started doing the thing that Samuel L. Jackson’s character does in The Long Kiss Goodnight and singing “I locked my door na-na-na-na, locking my door na-na-na-na. Keys in my hand na-na-na-na” etc.
Whenever I lock my door, I do something unique and unusual at the same time. Like knocking the door knob twice, or tapping my forehead. When I try to remember if I locked the door or not, I’m no longer concerned if I’m just remembering locking it from a previous day, because I remember doing the unique action too
I’ve taught myself to create a visual fingerprint of when I do things that normally forget if I’ve done or would be bad if I ever forgot. I remember the surrounding scenery and my exact mannerisms when I do things like locking the door or turning something off.
That way, when I have those doubts I reply it in my mind and see all the unique details related to me performing the task. “Oh, yeah, I did lock the front door because I had to look at my key to make sure it was right side up.” And the doubt disappears.
Smart.
I’ve decided to just leverage my ego. Past me was in a good state of mind and is competent and would not have made that mistake. I wouldn’t distrust past me, would I?
how do you know you aren’t remembering a different day? Like, you remember seeing yourself turn off the stove, but then you wonder if that was yesterday or today.
Not the same person, but to me there’s a different feel to the lingering fingerprint of a recent working memory and the memory of longer-term storage. It’s enough to matter.
I’ve just started doing the thing that Samuel L. Jackson’s character does in The Long Kiss Goodnight and singing “I locked my door na-na-na-na, locking my door na-na-na-na. Keys in my hand na-na-na-na” etc.
Whenever I lock my door, I do something unique and unusual at the same time. Like knocking the door knob twice, or tapping my forehead. When I try to remember if I locked the door or not, I’m no longer concerned if I’m just remembering locking it from a previous day, because I remember doing the unique action too