Alon Braun discusses using memory palaces, an ancient technique of mentally organizing information in physical spaces, to boost productivity and manage anxiety. The method works by connecting knowledge to your body and environment, making information stick better than traditional note-taking.
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What do you do to deal with your anxiety when you don't have everything tracked in a system?
Ah, this. Okay, but this is another topic. Okay. Like for me, anxiety, it's a meaning of like I need to connect more with my body. So anxiety, the more I put focus on my senses, the more it's like I feel better.
That's a big, big hack for everyone listening right there. The anxiety is in the body, right. It's not in the mind.
Right? Yeah. So it's like, you know, we all know like porges sympathetic parasympathet work and you know, we can start to talk about this and all this subject of, you know, anxiety by itself.
Okay, well I don't want to take you off your, off your previous track there, but I just, I caught that and I think that's worth noting for people. It's okay if you don't know where some stuff is. You don't have to feel anxiety if that happens. But having a system that tracks it typically reduces anxiety or at least reduces missed opportunity. There you go.
But then when the system is inside of you and you actually can connect to your body, this is what I did. It's basically instead of sitting on David Allen getting things done. And I respect David Allen, but in order to make it work, I need to sit on the computer. Now I don't really, I. I'm a computer person. I don't like to sit on the computer. I learned, you know, if something you learn about being like in software engineer and this is something every software engineer will tell you. The hates of the computer. We don't like society part of the computer. And then the phone, it's even a night, it's. It's even worse. So I like to connect to my body. I like to develop my body. I like to connect to my emotion. I like to connect to people where the computer get so as if it's like embodying information can really open up other things. You can be with a project and be Lao like Tai Chi. I don't know, being swimming now then the realization is. And for that I understand maybe this is the idea of what's happening. I'm just actually taking a construct and now it's like my wants actually. So perhaps we can build palaces of who we are and what is our values and what we want. So we take all the, you know, there is all the work of like, you know, we live in a time that every info, you know, every person in the world is exposed now to Tony Robbins, every person, it's not. And every, you know, they have the coaches and they'd like, you know, many people, they repeat this information again and again. And people hear it at home and they know it. And people, People already, like, they heard the advices. They heard the advices. And, and. But what we do with that, so we hear we should be happy, and we hear we do that, we do that, we do that. My responsibility is not to be a victim. And there are so many frameworks and we have a ton of advices. What we do with that, how we actually, in the age of the Internet, when everything is accessible, what we do with information. So we file it on the computer. So the five steps that Tony Robbins gave for something, do we file it on the computer? And what we do with that? So I started to understand, perhaps it's about, like, embedding information. And the main work that needs to be done is not getting more information, it's actually embedding the information and actually uploading it to us. And with the time when we upload these networks of information, with the time, you know, you're creating habits in your thinking. So when you're visiting these networks, you're creating habits, and things happen in a different way. Things start to change when you're actually working directly and constructing these networks.
