> Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
I will have to disagree. New ideas are rarely totally new, and often build on old ideas. Keeping old ideas in your brain will help you come up with new ideas.
One of the big advantages of having stuff in memory is that you can do background processing.
I can't tell you the number of problems I have figured out while going for a long walk, or driving in my car, or even sleeping (all of a sudden I wake up with the solution).
Keeping old ideas in your brain will help you come up with new ideas.
Agree! Though, "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them" doesn't mean that you should literally never remember anything. It's just not necessarily clear from context-less quote.
I can't tell you the number of problems I have figured out
while going for a long walk
The point is not to forcibly resist remembering things. The point is to free yourself from the burden of remembering things that can simply be filed away (ie, reference documentation) so that you can be more present, focus on what's important, and free your mind up for more creative/productive thinking - including those walks where many of us get our best thinking done. :)
> Your mind is having ideas, it's just not holding them.
which is still quite accurate, especially given the theme of the article. Augmenting your memory is important, especially since age can make memorization harder, and even impossible.
I will have to disagree. New ideas are rarely totally new, and often build on old ideas. Keeping old ideas in your brain will help you come up with new ideas.
One of the big advantages of having stuff in memory is that you can do background processing.
I can't tell you the number of problems I have figured out while going for a long walk, or driving in my car, or even sleeping (all of a sudden I wake up with the solution).