«Good memory» — what kind of memory, the memory of the past or the future? One who lives only in his past can remember in detail everything that he once had, and not imagine his future at all. As it turns out, so it will turn out. And the one who lives only for his future knows well everything that he plans for today, tomorrow and beyond, he has everything ready for the future — and at the same time he does not remember at all what happened to him yesterday.
“That was a long time ago, that was yesterday!” — this is true. For many people with a memory of the future, living an energetic and eventful life, yesterday is already insanely far away, as if from a past life.
What we remember, someone puts on the “Past” shelf, and someone on the “Future” shelf, and thus these two different types of memory appear. The memory of the past is the memory of the significant things that have already happened in our lives, this is a vision of our life back. The memory of the future is the memory of what you plan and plan, it is the vision of your life forward.
The memory of the future is very simple and understandable. If you saw or heard something important, something that you definitely may need in the future, then you need to think about when exactly, at what moment in the future you will need what happened today, and put it at that moment in the future when it will be necessary recall.
It clicked in my head: “When we get home, we must not forget to call my mother.” This is important, so we must put into the future. We imagine how we come home, how we undress and go into the room, and here we have a phone in front of us. Phone — call mom. Yes, they put a reminder in the future.
They came, they called, they ended the conversation. Is there anything to remember? No, it’s all right, there’s nothing to remember. The past conversation can be forgotten (after all, it is not needed?), We throw it out of our heads, we live in the next future.
Of course, I want to have both of these memories: to remember everything of the past, and never forget my plans, constantly completing and filling my future. However, this rarely occurs in life, and in practice you have to choose: either — or. Ordinary people live by ordinary memory and remember mostly the past, while those who care about the future are not always interested in the past.
Or, more precisely, they do not always consider it cost-effective to occupy their heads with this as well. Why remember the past, which will not be needed in the future?
And if you are an efficient person with a normal, and not a phenomenal memory, then reconcile yourself to the fact that the amount of information you need will always be more than you can remember, and develop only the memory you need most: the memory of the future.
This is strange for a Processor — how can one not remember what happened? — and it is completely clear to the Resultant: why remember what is not needed? Remembering everything is like keeping at home everything that you have ever purchased … After some time, there is a desire to free the room from not the most necessary things, because when there are too many things, it is already difficult to find what you need. Also memory: the best is not the one that remembers everything, but the one that prompts exactly what is needed right now.
The memory of the future is very convenient: everything that is needed is in the head, and what is not needed is thrown out of the head and does not distract.
Will you need it? When will you start developing it? Already envisioned this future? Have you already put this decision in your future?
If a person does not remember what things he had in the past week, these are not necessarily memory lapses: perhaps the person just has a different memory. A person with a memory of the future really does not remember what he had last week and will have great difficulty restoring what he did yesterday. He will complete this task in a different way: he will look at his next week and easily describe, for example, his tomorrow.
By the way, it is curious: when we remember the past, we usually look a little to the left. When we think about the future, we look to the right.
Is this something you should remember? Remember? And in what future do you put it, where will it be useful to you?
In summary: to improve memory, use external memory more often, positive memory and memory of the future.