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Think Remembering Is Always Best? Forget About It!

Think Remembering Is Always Best? But we also constantly forget in ways we don't notice — and a lot of this forgetting isn't bad. No, what I have in mind is more radical still: That forgetting could help us learn from experience and apply what we've learned in real life. Removing some of the details — forgetting them — could help extract the generalizable core from an experience and, thus, help you store it in a way that's ready for deployment: useful and likely to be called up when needed. In his review of the latest empirical research, Nørby tells us that forgetting "is a positive force that helps people focus on the now and the next," not — like Funes — on the particulars and the past.

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