#148 - Making Memories Like a Lazy Genius
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to mark moments, make memories, and give our kids something to remember. Even if you don’t have kids, there’s still a high cultural premium on memories. Scrapbooking, photo albums, daily journals, the Gram. But if we try to manufacture memories, mechanize them, we’ll get overwhelmed by something that our brains already do. Let’s make memories like a Lazy Genius.
Helpful Companion Links
- You can listen to Ten Steps to Creating Your Own Traditions (even if it’s geared a little bit towards holidays) here.
- Laura Tremaine’s family doing Sunday pancakes is a great example of a simple, but powerful memory-making practice. She also hosts a great podcast called 10 Things To Tell You.
- My favorite app for documenting with video is 1 Second Everyday.
- I also use a five-year journal (affiliate link) with a couple of lines for every day with space for five years.
- More info on Chatbooks, which we use to print photos of our kids from Instagram.
- Speaking of Instagram, I’ll be there on Thursday around noon EST to talk live about making memories. I’d love for you to join me.
- Download a transcript of this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, you're listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Kendra Adachi and I am here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:09.8 | and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:12.0 | Today is episode 148. |
| 0:15.4 | Make memories like a lazy genius. |
| 0:18.0 | We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to mark moments, make memories, give our kids something |
| 0:23.2 | to remember when they're teenagers and they kind of hate us. |
| 0:26.3 | And even if you don't have kids, there is still a really high cultural premium on |
| 0:31.7 | memories. |
| 0:33.1 | Scrapbooking, photo albums, daily journals, the Graham, and to be fair. |
| 0:39.2 | It's not just cultural pressure or even like always bad. |
| 0:42.6 | Memories are beautiful, experiencing things that make us feel happy, that connect us to |
| 0:46.9 | other people. |
| 0:47.9 | Like, memories are beautiful. |
| 0:50.1 | But if we try and manufacture them, mechanize them, or if we simply forget that we're |
| 0:55.8 | human beings who can live our lives without pressure from other people's expectations, we'll |
| 1:01.4 | get overwhelmed by the thing that's really natural, that our brains already do in remembering |
| 1:07.9 | things and making memories and marking moments. |
| 1:10.2 | So today we're going to talk about making memories like a lazy genius. |
| 1:14.2 | We're going to focus on what matters, ignore what doesn't, and then create actual strategies |
| 1:19.6 | and shortcuts around those things. |
| 1:21.6 | And no ad or ask today, we're just going to dive in. |
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