Hello very very very dear friends and thank you for joining me for this new episode of Marchez Avec Johan. It is always a great pleasure to spend these moments with you during which I have my microphone, I walk and I share with you a certain number of ideas, reflections, sometimes difficulties that I encounter in an Authentic and spontaneous French. I speak to you as if you and I were walking together on paths. Today, the weather is nice. You may hear, there is little wind at the moment. We can hear the birds. It really really pleases.
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Today, I would like to focus a little on a subject that I brought up, what, two weeks ago, I think, it was at the end of July, in which I said you are never too old to learn. And I shared with you some doubts related to my memory or my age. I said: "I tend to forget a lot of things". I put it down to my age, I said: "I forget a lot of things that people tell me, I forget a lot of things that I read, that I learn". And I explained to you that it was very very likely what is called a limiting belief, that is to say somewhere a... how to say, a belief, something that I think that is not true and that limits my performance a little. And I said that the problem is probably elsewhere.
And that's what I've tried to study. In recent weeks, I've thought a lot, I've studied the situation a lot. Well, first of all, as I was telling you in this episode about age, it's not a recurring korea whatsapp number data problem either, it's not a medical problem. I'm not losing my mind, or at least not at the moment. And it's quite possible that these few doubts I've had are ultimately just something passing and are more linked to a method.
And I did some research on memory, on learning, on forgetting, on remembering what you learned, etc. I watched some videos, I went back to some books that I had in my library, I looked at my journals because I write in journals, 'well, I have a journal and I write constantly every day, so, I found a number of things that I had forgotten, yes, that's it, and that I reviewed, that I looked at again to try to move forward and to put in place a number of actions to maybe improve my memory a little bit. And I put together a kind of to-do list, which I would like to share with you, in terms of memory, remembering things, and I would like to expand on that for you today.
The first of these things is to already remember that my memory is good and that we are typically in a limiting belief, when I say to myself: "oh, I'm too old, my memory is not as good as before", no. Once again, as I was saying, it's a problem of method and it's not inevitable to say to yourself "as soon as you're over 40, 50, you can't learn anymore". That would be stupid. There are dozens or hundreds of examples of people who learn things at a certain age. And I was talking to you in particular about Steve Kaufmann, who learns languages at over 70 without any problem. So, there you go, already remember that. That's important.
Then, I realized that I had a lot of… I was consuming a lot of content. Every time I go for a walk, I listen to things, podcasts, audio books, I sometimes watch YouTube videos even if I don't watch many, but often when I do sports, on the elliptical trainer, I watch videos, I read a lot. And so, I am constantly giving new information to my brain. And even if it's good and interesting to educate yourself, to learn a lot of things, especially because it helps to make connections and combinations, well after a while, the brain can't remember everything. So, it's completely normal not to remember everything when you have a continuous flow of information coming in like that.
So, try to simplify a little, try for what is learning, I have already spoken a lot about it, but also practice just in time, that is to say learn things that I can apply now and not learn things that I might need one day, because I will have forgotten them by the time I need them, and suddenly it was not worth it.
So, it's really much more constructive to say to yourself "I'm going to learn things that I'm going to be able to apply now", because the application gives us new information, shows us that there are lots of other things that we should learn, that we don't know enough about yet, and it also allows us to reinforce what we've read, what we've learned. Sometimes, we'll say to ourselves: "Oh yeah, I read that in the book, how do I apply that?" And the fact of applying literally allows us to remember better. So, that's super important and that's why just-in-time learning is very useful.