Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
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