The Importance of Attention in Memory

We are doing things all the time that our brain is in some way, shape, form, paying attention to and encoding so that we can then go back and retrieve it at a later time. There's nothing that I do that does not involve memory. And what we remember becomes our anticipated future. The biblical narrative is replete with God's admonition for the Hebrews as they left Egypt to remember,Remember, remember, remember. This notion that remembering goodness and beauty is not just something that's going to happen on its own. We have to actively pay attention to it.