Since my main lemmy’s password is locked behind Bitwarden, I had to make a new account to post. Originally I started using passwords manager because I keep forgetting passwords. But my paranoid ass is so worried that someone saw me typing my Bitwarden master password so I feel the urge to change it. So now I forgot the new master password.
The password is a few word passphrase generated from a keyword. Like an acoustic poem, if you know what I mean. I know all the words except one word, and I know the starting letter of the word, just forgot the exact word. 🥲 Guess I’m gonna flip through the dictionary to find a word that feels right.
Um so… has anyone experienced memory issues? I’m a young adult (18-25 age range), so I feel so strange to be forgetting stuff so early. Like do young people normally forget things?
I don’t rely on myself remembering anything before repeating it like 100 times, over a month or so. 2 times, then 0 for 2 days, is almost guaranteed “puff” and it’s gone.
Think of memory like this: how many times back, do you remember taking a piss? The last one? the one before that? what about 10 times ago?.. but I bet you know by heart which side of the toilet you keep the toilet paper, don’t you?
We are primed to forget “irrelevant” things, and keep only what matters. Something you only did 2 times 2 days ago, tends to fall into the “irrelevant” pile. Repeat it 3 times a day for 30 days, and it will stay in the “relevant” side. Keep repeating it for a year, and it will end up in your involuntary muscle memory.
For important password changes, either write it down at the beginning, or practice remembering the new password a few times every day, for a week or two before actually changing it.