Memory Hotels & Vaults | 1/23/21

Yesterday got off to a good start, even taking a walk before 9:30 am or so listening to Thinking In Bets. Did some work, but after the onboarding meeting at noon, went to go eat out at a Mexican restaurant. Why can't I have a thought of eating food out but not give into it? I keep failing this test that the universe keeps putting in front of me. One day at a time. One day at a time. I don' think of the current self-future self question often enough throughout the day. Can do more of that.

Worked on clearing up my personal Gmail inbox, which was at 41,000 unopened emails! After 1-2 hours, I've gotten it down to 2,000 so almost done w/it. Creating labels & rules & inboxes so it's more organized. And whenever I get an email in the future that I don't want, I should unsubscribe from it immediately instead of letting it take up space in my inbox.

Also had a deep, spiritual discussion with Shivani yesterday so that was eye opening and insightful.

This morning woke up at 3:45 - 4 am and read a couple hours of Childhood Matters. Maybe 50-60 pages left, so planning on finishing that up today. I'll need to do a full debrief from that after I finish since there's sooo many valuable takeaways.

Other thing I thought of while doing Shambhavi today was how I can improve my memory. I can imagine a year as a hotel. I enter the hotel room, each floor is a month. Then on each floor, every room # is the day of the month. I can have 2 doors with the same # or distinguished with "23A" & "23P" for AM and PM. Then when I enter the room, I have an object or person or something to represent what happened at that time of day where the # on a clock would be. So let's say I did Tai Chi at 9 am today, I'd walk in to the 2021 hotel, stay on the first floor for January, take the left door of 23A then where 9 is on the clock (to my left) I see myself doing Tai Chi. This can / may work well enough for chronicling things but what about my feelings & general knowledge? Feelings I think I can associate with the events b/c feelings can be a function of time. So when I picture things in the room and place them there, I associate a feeling / emotion with it. Now knowledge is not a function of time. I think for that, I picture a separate building that has a vault system underneath the building (not the hotel since that's a year). Then each vault has a sign above it that is the topic of the knowledge (aka my Wisdom vault titles & master tags) that I can then open and transport myself to pushing buttons of "Learnings, Books, Media & Courses." The learnings can be on tables laid out across the entire floor. The books I can be directly transported to the section of bookshelves that I've read that have info on this topic. The media & courses can be also in bookshelves but in form as DVDs / CDs, paper notes so that I don't have to go to different areas for related info. The other memory is realtime, when I'm having live discussions or something & want to mentally note & archive it. Side not, I can picture my life as ahighway w/each exit as the year where the hotel is at. Realtime, I'll just ahve to mentaly note the time & place (hotel) as well as the vaults. Why would I wanna do all this? Idt my memory is bad rn but it's very unintentional. I wan tto control when I remember things, not have it at the mercy of my subconscious. I can also remember more things that happen in my life so I can become a better person, learn from my mistakes as well as from the advice of others. No rush for this but just an idea and framework.

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