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Why Do I Forget What I Was Going To Google, And How Do I Recall It?
I just sat down to ask google a question, saw something interesting on the page of subjects that comes up when I click on Firefox, read it and couldn't remember what I was going to ask (now I've just remembered it -- Newton's Second Law). Does this happen to (nearly) everyone? What's the best way of getting back to where you were? Just rely on chance? The second part is more important than the first.
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It's quite simple really, why it happens.
You think of something you need to do, perhaps it might be in another room, but on the way there you think of of something entirely different, so when you get there, you've forgotten what you went for.
There are a few ways round this. Sometimes I will say the thing I want over and over again so I can't get distracted or I write it down.
If I'm in bed and I think of something I need to do the next day, I put a memo on my phone.
The older we get, the more information we have in our brains, and sometimes I feel we have too much info in there. If I am trying to think of a name that I know I should know, it will come to me eventually, it just takes time to get itself to the front of my brain.
Well, that is how I look at it.
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