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…why it is that you sometimes forget the name of someone who’s face is totally familiar to you? Or what it is that makes you look around the house for your phone, keys or wallet? How about the fact that some experiences that you have vanished from your mind without a trace.
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My faux pas was a textbook example of absent-mindedness – which is one of the 7 sins of memory that we will discuss today!
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I then spent the next 5 minutes dodging cars like the frogs in Frogger picking up my wallet and its contents – now littered across the 4-lane road! “Oh ,” I said to myself as I quickly pulled a U-turn back in the opposite direction. For some reason, I put my wallet on top of my car, went inside and got my stuff, came back out, got in the car and headed to the gym.Ī few minutes later I noticed something fly off my roof in my rearview mirror. It was a Sunday morning and I was getting in my car to head for the gym when I realized I left something inside. The reason I tell you this is because several years ago I was involved in a real-life game of Frogger.
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Have you ever heard of the classic video game ‘Frogger’? If you haven’t, the object is to get frogs to their homes one by one by avoiding vehicles on a busy road and crossing a river full of hazards.