How to deal with scheduling conflicts – tip 3: Why forgetting is good!
I often forget things. I actually forget most things! Often, I don’t even remember what I did yesterday. And I’m not sorry!
The reason I don’t remember a lot of things is because I’m not interested in some things. And for every thing I forget I remember a lot of other very important things.
Lets say I would ask you, without looking at your calendar, what meetings you have next week. You might remember 3 meetings out of 6, right? And I assume that the meeting ‘Talk about promotion’, ‘Accept Nobel price’ and ‘First date with lovely girl from accounting’ didn’t slip your mind?
And why is that? It is because those meetings are important to you. Some meetings you don’t even need to write down. They keep you awake at night!
You brain actually works like a bullshit filter. It filters out all the boring and unimportant meetings and makes you remember only the good stuff.
And why not put this instrument to work instead of blaming it for forgetting your boring meetings? Intuitively your brain decides for you what is and what isn’t important in your life. Why not trust it a bit more? If you keep forgetting about a meeting my guess is that it actually isn’t important or that you actually aren’t interested in the content of that meeting. So try to get rid of it.
There used to be a time when I would be frustrated about forgetting certain things. Now I’m not frustrated anymore but interested. Now, when I forget something, I wonder why and try to act on my conclusions.
If you forget EVERY meeting in your calendar you might want to go and look for more interesting work…
