Does actually stopping to ask yourself “Now, where would I have put that thing?” help you find something you’ve misplaced?

  • seathru@quokk.au
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    3 days ago

    No, and I get irrationally angry when I’m looking for something and someone asks “Well, where would you have put it?”
    “You better start calling 911 now!”

    The only thing that worked was putting up a bunch of cameras so I can go back and look to see where my brain thought was a good spot to sit something in the moment.

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      3 days ago

      “I’ll just put this down for a second, it won’t matter, the task I need to complete is trivial, it will be done so quickly that- hey, that thing is ALSO loose? I’m gonna need a bigger thing!”

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      3 days ago

      Do you mind it when other people asknitnof themselves? Maybe not quite as angry, but do you have some bigger objection or is it just that it’s not helpful to you?

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        3 days ago

        The thing is that when we ask ourselves where we would have put that thing, we are asking someone else where they would have put that thing, if we were a person trying to help another person to try and figure out where they put that thing. We just so happen to be the same, thoroughly unhelpful person.

      • seathru@quokk.au
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        3 days ago

        No, not at all. I only get upset because I’ve already asked myself many times to no avail, and the 28th time isn’t going to be the ticket.

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          3 days ago

          That’s fair. I’m sorry you experience that. I can’t say I have much to offer by way of alternarives. Kind of why I asked.

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            3 days ago

            It’s all good, I’ve learned to work around it. The camera part wasn’t a joke; a couple motion tracking cameras in my work area saves me dozens of hours a year if not more.