Your Mind Is Keeping Track of Your Past Success Failure Ratio

The reason you remember the past isn't to make an objectively accurate record of past. It's so that you can use the information in the past to prepare you for the future. Your brain is always trying to figure out how to calebrate how anxious you should be, and one of the things it does is by keeping track of your past success failure ratio. The more frequently that you've been successful, the higher you are up on the dominance hiarke,. That's one possibility. But also, it's reasonable to assume that the environment is less dangerous, right? Bcause that's what constitutes danger.