🔴 When you can't find something, try taking a break or talking to someone

I often forget where I put things.
It's not that I lose them, I just
forget where I put them away 😅

There is a reason for this,
as my thoughts are often multitasking.

✅ Memorize things by associating them with something or
keep them gathered in a specific place.

☝️ If you do this, you won't forget with a high probability.

But sometimes, I deviate from this ✅ and
end up putting things somewhere else 💦

I wonder why that is?
I should just put them where I always do 😮‍💨

・Putting it in a different file to make it stand out 📁
・Putting it in a different bag with other documents 💼

When I do things thinking it's for the best,
it completely backfires 😭


At times like that,

you see it but don't see it.

It is often a state called

Inattentional Blindness.
(Do you know the gorilla experiment?)

It's because the brain is processing it as [irrelevant]
even though it is in your field of vision.

Therefore,
so that you can look at the same place
with a different brain than before,

take a break for a moment.
Or, try talking to someone.

Then, things you couldn't see before
might become visible.

Humans
don't see with their eyes,
but tend to see what their brain predicts.

In the "it's not here mode",
no matter how many times you look, you won't find it.

But by taking a break or talking to someone,
your thought mode
becomes an "it might be here" mode,

and your visual processing changes 👀

Also, talking to someone
is also known as Social Regulation,
and

When you try to explain it to someone else,
your brain reorganizes the situation.
↓
This provides hints for your search.

This also
changes your visual processing👀

It can be family,
or it can be an AI.

Try talking through the situation of where you put it in order, or saying,
I remember it up to this point, but...?
🌿

It's quite magical.

Whoa👀‼️
I looked here before,
but it was here all along‼️

And just like that, you find what you were looking for😃
(Probably)

If you haven't found it yet,
please give this a try✨

Sometimes,
Oh(￣□￣;)!! I threw it away❗
happens too.

In that case, don't worry about it👍