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Re:To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget by la_oveja on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:09AM (#17607406)
> It seemed the secret for me was to trust my memory had the number in working memory somewhere, rather than trying to persist it my concious stream of thought which inevitably garbled it.

That happens to me too! PIN keys, or bank passwords I know I know, if I try to think to remember them, I'm unable to remember them correctly. Instead, just seeing the input interface, blank my brain and I start pressing keys... And I write them down perfectly!

Indeed, the brain is very weird.

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Re:To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget by mateuszf on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:45AM (#17607538)
Now that's a good way to remember my btc private keys ;)
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