If you can remember to implement them, here’s how to stop losing things. Daniel L. Schacter, a Harvard University psychology professor and author of "The Seven Sins of Memory,” said losing things is something everyone is prone to, to varying degrees. Schacter likened losing your keys to drivers who arrive at their destination safely without remembering how they got there. McDaniel said that the brain does a better job at remembering things when it receives several bits of information that can later be connected. "Saying it out loud creates a better encoding because it makes you pay attention, and the verbalization creates a richer memory,” McDaniel said.

Source: The Star February 21, 2026 07:02 UTC