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> My short term memory is falling off a cliff

Are you sure? I thought this was happening to me too, and then I realized when looking back 10 years ago that I have way more responsibilities now both in and out of work: I am not only getting more done at work, but also for more people. I am now picking and choosing which meetings to even hold, much less attend, because I have a higher throughput. My children's needs are much more complicated now than when they were younger. I have a side business.

I can't fathom how I would have even gotten this all done when I was younger simply due to how much leisure time I spent, much less kept all of this in short term memory back then.



> I thought this was happening to me too, and then I realized when looking back 10 years ago that I have way more responsibilities now both in and out of work

This so much. When I was in my 20s I never forgot things, but I didn't have anything that I really needed to remember lol.


It's easy to forget about how many more responsibilities we take on as we age, simply by nature of how those responsibilities slip into our lives one at a time, bit by bit, gradually shifting our window of normalcy.




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