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Focus - Why We Forget

How We're Wired

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Why Didn't We Evolve to Have a Perfect Memory?

Why haven't we evolved to have a perfect memory? Because sometimes forgetting something, or misremembering something can have really dire consequences in life. One of the cef features of memory is that we are good at remembering information that's really mportant to recall in the future. And events that are important for us to remember will result in us retrieving, rehashing, recalling them again. The things that are less important ae the things that we tend to forget.

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