[Forgetting Important Lessons Learned]
Does this happen to you?
I'm not necessarily talking about mistakes you've made which have caused significant emotional pain, and you've learnt an important lesson from. I think these tend to be easier to remember. I'm more referring to personal processes you've optimized or things you've spent time thinking about and decided the best way to approach that type of problem. ...and then a similar situation or problem appears months or years later and you either (a) fail to recognize it's a similar situation, (b) completely forget about the previous situation and your previous conclusion as the best way to handle this type of problem, or (c) fail to even really think about the new situation as a problem you may have previously solved.
Anyone else frustrated by this?
Do you have any strategies you use to overcome this problem?
I'm not sure how much this would help you in particular, but spaced repetition, when done right, should jog your memory and make you work to recall something just before you would have forgotten it.
In order to learn and remember to apply useful concepts, I have an Anki deck containing the following:
https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d#.qtvgobrvk
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