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I am that guy that's always asking questions, and the
reason why is because it's very fun to start researching
for answers. How much of our life actually goes unremembered?
Plus is it true that we only remember twenty to
thirty things out of each year. My name is Arrow.
I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf. That means I
stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study,
then activate. I call it the Daily Mess mainly because
it's a chronological walk through an everyday world, which means
it is my morning writing as a receiver of thoughts
and ideas. We as people tend to thrill things to
the side because we think we're gonna deal with it later. On. Well,
when a subject arrives inside of me, I know it
is time to dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal,
but bute. But by doing that research, the picture becomes clearer.
This is the daily mess. How much of our life
goes unremembered? Oh, you gotta brace yourself for this one.
Research clearly shows a huge portion of our life goes
one hundred percent unremembered. We should always keep in mind
that our memory is not locked in on creating a
continuous recording. It plays out like a highlight reel. Cognitive
research suggests that most daily experiences are never stored in
long term memory banks. Your brain is constantly receiving huge
amounts of sensory input. Now, psychologists estimate that ninety to
ninety nine percent of the moment by moment experiences that
we all go through totally disappear from us in hours
and or just minutes. Whew, the cold hard facts. Your
memories require meaning or emotion. Other factors that allow a
memory to hang out a little bit longer include novelty
and surprises, repetition, and having a personal importance. And yes,
it's very true that many of us do not remember
our childhood before four years old. It is called childhood amnesia.
Memories are made to fade. Let me say that one
more time. Memories are made to fade. Your brain experiences
millions of events, but only retains fragments of them, which
basically means you ain't making a movie. It is a
movie trailer instead. Hey, coming up next, Is it true
that just maybe there's only like twenty or thirty things
that we remember in a single year. Hey, welcome back
to the daily mess. Is it true that maybe twenty
or thirty things are actually remembered out of every single year.
I mean, we're talking three hundred and thirty five days
out of three hundred and sixty five seriously per year.
Wait a second here, This is not true. Information not true.
The idea comes from research on distinctive memory days, but
it doesn't connect us to a short list of memory making.
This study is actually based on when asked about a
certain year, you and I, we tend to recall only
twenty or thirty things. You see where we're going here,
Mainly because most days are routine and blend together. We
tend to store our memories in patterns and themes. Very
very very few of us, unless you're a d daily
writer like myself. No one truly keeps daily records of
what you're remembering. So what happens to the memories when
we can't just instantly bring them up, Well, they're stored
inside a compressed script. The brain is locked in on
summarizing our routine life. Number one reason to save on
cognitive space. A routine year will always feel like it's
flying by, whereas a full year of big changes woo,
that's going to feel like it's lasted forever. But then again,
that's based on hindsight. If your weak does feel long,
it's called a vacation paradox. That proves that being very
bored can actually slow down time. I'm Errol, and that's
the daily mess.