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Isn't it also because of ageing?

• OliverM 6y ago
  No. I've had an excellent memory all my life and I have noticed it's not quite the reliable cache for everything important that it used to be. But the journalling the article discusses is a process to condense learnings and reveal insights much more effectively than just idly reviewing your memory of the day's events mentally.
• munchbunny 6y ago
  You mean losing memory over time? Not in my case. I switched from doing things in memory to keeping a notebook at the ripe old age of 24. For two reasons. The first is that I simply couldn't hold everything in my head anymore because I had to track 5-10 different projects at any time, and context switching without something written down sucks when you have to context switch multiple times a day. The second is that writing things down was a great way to force myself to clarify my thinking. I became more articulate across the board, not because I got better at bullshitting, but because I was now reserving time in advance to think through open issues in a structured way.
  • mister_hn 6y ago
    But with age come more responsibility and stuff to take care of.