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you need GPS to go to the place youv’e been multiple times, because you have GPS. Your brain does a funny thing where it doesnt feel like it has to remember shit when you have the answer infront of you on a computer/phone/device cause it is basically using that device as its short term memory.

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Same with phone numbers. We used to remember them, or at least a handful of the most important ones.

Nowadays it took me years just to memorise my own.

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Yeah, having the internet in my pocket absolutely affects how much I commit to memory.

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Which is a good thing, at least for how my mind works- leaving it up to the internet to fill in the details frees up space in my head to retain a greater breadth of vague knowledge…

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You and I both know that freed up space is just used for anxiety.

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