A Mason's Work

[01:12] "When you take the role of secretary, one of the things that you promise to do is to keep an accurate recording of the proceeds of a meeting... only those things that were fit to be recorded for posterity's sake." 
[01:41] "We're really talking about the ability to retain and recall information that is appropriate and useful and free of the emotional language that oftentimes comes with our own memories." 
[02:05] "The secretary is the recorder of memory... This is also a role that you're going to want to step into on a regular basis when you are trying to diagnose and troubleshoot something that may be going on in your world." 
[04:14] "Across the broad swath of your memories and your recollections... they are very likely recorded both with factual content, as you saw it at the time, as well as with emotional content, which you're going to benefit from removing." 

• Posterity and Fitness: The Secretary doesn't record everything; they record what is "fit to be recorded" for the sake of future use.
• Separating Facts from Feelings: Memories are often encoded in a high emotional state (frustration, agitation), which makes recalling the event trigger that same emotion.
• Troubleshooting the Past: By taking the emotional "charge" off of an event, you stop interpreting history through a lens of anger or helplessness.
• Fertile Territory: Working with your "inner secretary" is one of the best ways to navigate problems in your own mind or within a room.

• Tim Dedman
• Jorge