Sunday, June 19, 2022

Curating the Mind

 First principle of a reliable filing system:

Take care not to violate the dictum of

meticulous care as in 'garbage in garbage out'.


 

All filing systems have a capacity limit

and the most vital such system located in

one's brain with the capacity to store and to

dredge, sending one's clerical mind to the

work of retrieval will be difficult when due

diligence has been ignored. Rummaging

about in carelessly-acquired, unimportant

files that simply take up precious storage is

a hopeless and hapless task for what the clerk

returns with can be lame, limp, of no account.

The deep subconscious may have been nudged

all too often to make room for deposits of

non-essential wisps of data, impressions, facts 

and figures for comfort. It has its own priorities

the assemblage and housing of the intimate

memorabilia that represent passions of the past.

Any who are now contemplating the wasteland 

they've constructed of an overworked filing system 

will find it now too late for remedial action.



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