here is one bit of everyday wisdom in Franklin’s motto “Let all your things have their places.” As the psychologist Daniel Levitin explains in The Organized Mind, our spatial memory is powerful, so it’s easier to remember things when they are anchored to a particular location.3 Things such as keys and corkscrews have a tendency to wander about in the course of being used. That is why they are easy to lose. And it is no accident that computer filing systems use a spatial metaphor—manila folders nestled inside other manila folders—to help humans keep track of documents that are, in reality,
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