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Embrace the Capacity to Forget Unimportant Ideas

Long lists of accumulated ideas are often not as important as we think. If an idea is truly important, it will naturally stay at the top of our minds. Trying to capture all ideas in structured lists can be a way of dealing with guilt about forgetting them, but it's okay to forget unimportant ideas. The human brain's working memory is a finely tuned machine for forgetting unimportant things, and embracing this capacity is a feature, not a bug. It's okay to forget ideas that are not constantly bubbling to the top of our minds and to focus on respecting the moments and working memory instead.

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