Guy Winch

If you don't, you're going to document instead of being present.

I've been to so many places where I see people march in, take pictures and leave.

They're not aware of what they saw, why they're there.

They didn't get any of the benefit, but they can show it to their friends.

Schedule, be present, then document.

Documentation is important because then when you get back, you can relive the entire thing through that media.

Create little albums.

You can print them out.

It's not expensive or create them online.

But when you do that...

Two things happen.

Number one, you have a great memory.

And number two, if you had a headache, it's not going to be in the pictures.

You know, if things went wrong at the hotel and you were irritable, you won't see it in the pictures.

It's not just that.

You are relaying down memories that will remember the vacation without those things.

You will literally in time forget the headache, the annoying, you know, busboy, whatever the thing is, and you'll just be like, look how happy I was because you won't see the irritation.

So you're curating your memories, not just your experiences.

What happened was like, it was literally my anniversary, my first year in my practice, Friday night, get home, and I get in the elevator with a neighbor who was a doctor in an ER.

And then elevator starts to rise, and then it shudders and stalls between floors.