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Technology for sure made me dumber. I used to always know the date, could perform mental mathematics quite nicely, and remember things pretty easily. Ask me what day of the month it is and I'll have to check my phone.

I hate that about myself - I'm too reliant.

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Turns out there are a lot of things we don't need to know the data but it is enough to know how to get it. Take the skill of reading maps in the era of gps as an example, of course it would be beneficial but your brain will not try to remember something that is always avaliable when you needed it

Same goes for a lot of things that we can just quickly lookup nowadays, I don't think its a bad thing but rather the brain doing what it always did and should do - adapting.

Sometimes it's nice knowing how to do something simply for its own sake. I know lots of random little facts and calculation tricks which don't really help me in any major way but I enjoy and take pride in knowing them.

> Take the skill of reading maps in the era of gps as an example, of course it would be beneficial but your brain will not try to remember something that is always available when you needed it

Maps themselves are a shortcut tool!

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