Do you forget a lot?.. Here is this happy theory

A study by the University of Toronto claims that having a strong memory is a severely exaggerated trait to describe smart people, noting that forgetting can actually be good for your intelligence.

Professor Blake Richland, one of the authors of the exciting study, said: 'It is important that the brain forget about irrelevant details and instead focus on things that will help make decisions in the real world.

We know that exercise increases the number of neurons in the hippocampus (in the brain), but it's exactly those details of your life that don't really matter that might prevent you from making good decisions."

Professor Richards and Paul Frankland suggested that "memory is used to improve decision-making by retaining the value of information and letting other unimportant things go, essentially making room for important things."

According to the researchers, according to what was published by the "Indy100" website, "this aspect of forgetting may be a blessing for us more than a hindrance."

So, for example, our brain forgets specific details about a past event, yet still remembers the bigger picture, and researchers believe this allows us to better generalize past experiences, rather than someone who can remember more minute details of the event.

However, they are quick to stress that if people forget important things at an alarming frequency, that is cause for concern.

The study claims that forgetting details now and then is a sign of a healthy memory system, working just as intended.

What information is ignored depends on the situation, according to Professor Richards: One of the things that differentiates the environment in which you want to remember things versus the environment in which you want to forget things is this question of how consistent are the environment and how likely are things to come back into your life?

Presumably the best thing for storing memories is not to save everything at all, Richards notes.

If you are trying to make a decision, it would be impossible to do so if your mind is constantly bombarded with useless information, one of the things that differentiates an environment where you want to remember things versus an environment where you want to forget things is this question of how consistent the environment is and how likely things are to come back into your life .

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