For what it is worth, it is useful to come to the conclusion that the brain is an awful place to store something you want to remember. It may not be a list, but I certainly remember better outside my head than inside. Developing tooling that works for you is important to coming to grips with your brain.
Everyone is different and I'd go so far to say that there's probably a HEFTY chunk of individuals that this wouldn't work for, me included.
I don't forget to do things. My brain just refuses to acknowledge that they're urgent to do.🤷♂️
My favorite strategy is literally putting crap I need to remember in my way. Remember my daughter's jacket for school? You belong in front of the door now. Need to remember making a meal? Gonna leave out a bunch of ingredients on the counter. Everybody is different, I just find that kind of stuff works for me too.
TO-DO list:
- Make TO-DO list
- Don't do anything on the TO-DO list
- Realise step 2 is paradoxical because I'm already making the TO-DO list
- Read the entire Wikipedia page about paradoxes
I find the act of making the list is helpful for prioritising tasks, but I wind up referring to it very little if at all.
Usually I make it while waiting for food or on public transport
Counted from the top? I've done several times now and it looks and sounds good to me.🤷♂️
I guess it works if you include the TODO in "TO DO List", which i also didn't include at first.
I've spent WAY too much time today listening to this theme song and counting the To dos and I still cannot hear more than 7. If you're counting 8 then maybe our ears are just on different wavelengths.🤣
Some people will give the most common advice and then get pissy when someone says that isn't helpful for them.
Idk, to me to-do lists are things I use to externalize the 10 different thoughts bouncing around in my head, which quiets it down for a bit and allows me to think about the most important one(usually the first one on the list that inspired the list). Makes me feel good the other things are documented and lets me forget about it for a moment.
Everyone is different and has a different strategy that works for them.🤷♂️
Personally, I'd make the Todo list, put it down somewhere unconventional, and then forget where it's at or even forget it existed in the first place.
Yeah, once I accepted I don't actually need to return to the to-do list and accepted they're more "externalize the noise" lists, they became helpful. before that not so much.
