The Purpose of Memory

"The purpose of memory is to extract information out from the past so you don't do the same damn stupid thing more than once," he says. "Once you master fire, you don't have to be burned, right? You can encounter truly dangerous things, and you can learn how to master them." If something in your past still bothers you, it means that as far as your underlying emotional systems are concerned, you are not master of that event,. That bothersome emotion will never go away until you figure out how it was that you were rendered vulnerable in that situation. It's also a useful thing to do from a conceptual perspective, because partly what you're trying to do in your