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Building on the last paragraph, I keep my root PGP key on an encrypted USB drive. There's several files that are encrypted by the root key, but they're mostly like password manager recovery phrases as well as things like my birth certificate, social security number, and various government IDs I've used. There are two copies of this USB, one travels with me at all times, the other is securely stored and accessed twice a year to ensure it's still performing. Both USB keys have fuses that will blow if opened up. This makes it so that for the rest of my life I will remember one password.

Passwords can also be made more memorable. For instance, because a password manager remembers the rest of my passwords, I made this one what I call a "pattern password". On a US keyboard I could type it in seconds without looking, but it would be too complex to guess.