Self-Help

Let's do an experiment. Take a video camera and record your life for one hour. Do not stop shooting, it must be continuous. Not the editing, leave as is. Expected to elapse after a week. After this time looking for a quiet place where no one interrupted. Take your watch and begins to measure the time from now. At the same time trying to remember the whole sequence you recorded.

We need to do it carefully, without breaks, without backtracking. Learn more at this site: Richard Easton . Follow the same order in which events occurred and by looking too much into detail. How long did your sequence of memory? "5 minutes, maybe 15? Time to play the movie you have recorded on your camera. Look at it carefully from beginning to end. It will last one hour, lasted exactly what your life while recording. Did not miss a single second. According to Donald Gordon, who has experience with these questions. And you remember what happened to the other 45 minutes? And with all the details that only you could remember seeing the video and not all? Simply vanished from your memory. Your memory only retained a small part of that time in your life.

If you lost 45 minutes of that hour of your life, imagine how much you've forgotten that day. And notice that it has only been a week. Let them spend at least a year to see how much you will remember from that time insignificant your existence. Based on our experiment, we can come to a shocking conclusion. Within a few years and have forgotten almost all your life.