Ah,
You think your brain is full.
It's not full.
It's unorganized.
You are a hoarder of irrelevant sensory data.
Every text.
Every background thought.
Every,
I'll do it later.
You are treating your brain like a junk drawer.
If you wanna remember.
You must first learn how to not be a conduit to every passing irritation.
Sit in the silence.
The memory of a name or fact is only as strong as the space you provide for it.
If your mind is a crowd of markers nothing will ever stay.
Memory champions don't think about cards,
They experience them.
You try and remember a name with your intellect.
Which is why you fail.
You must remember with your senses.
When you meet someone,
Do not try to remember them.
That is a way.
Desperate act of the ego.
Instead.
Look at them.
Look until you're bored.
Smell the air.
Hear the tone.
If you aren't paying enough attention to be uncomfortable,
You aren't paying attention at all.
Your brain is good at remembering the unimportant because you give it emotional importance.
You must learn to actively delete the noise.
Enter a state where the now is the only time frame that exists.
In this day.
The pause.
Your excuses about being forgetful and the future.
Your anxiety about forgetting.
Are seen for what they are.
Mental noise.
Wipe the slate.
Only the present data remains.
You cannot remember if you're juggling.
The human brain is a single pointed instrument.
Currently being used as a blunt hammer.
From now on.
You do one thing at a time.
If you're talking to someone.
You are only talking to them.
If you are reading.
You are only reading.
If you can't do this,
You are not multitasking.
You are just failing to pay attention to anything.
Do not feel proud for being able to remember a name.
It is the bare minimum requirement of an adult mind.
Stop reading tips on memory.
Go into the world.
Look at a face.
Observe a fact and hold it in your mind with the intensity of a surgeon.
The world is a library and you've been walking through it with your eyes closed.
Open them.
And remember what you see.
