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Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind(scientificamerican.com)

11 points·by rblion·15 anni fa·7 comments

scientificamerican.com

Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trying-to-forget

3 comments

rhizome·15 anni fa

In a nutshell: "Big smile? Short memory."

EDIT: changed punctuation. i think it comes across more accurately this way.

carlsednaoui·15 anni fa

Hitting a paywall

skip·15 anni fa

Try: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trying-to-f...

gm·15 anni fa

Paywall as well.

rblion·15 anni fa

thanks.

pazimzadeh·15 anni fa

Access it from reedit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/nu6qq/forgetting_is...

codex·15 anni fa

I think a more accurate title is "prioritization is key to a healthy mind.". Forgetting is just deprioritizing, and only by prioritizing can our mind efficiently filter and process the most important information.