Humble Minds.Quiet Minds. Fearless Minds

I suspect, nevertheless, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

Jorge Luis Borges “Funes, The Memorious”

Only in the past decade or so has a new science begun to coalesce to explain why forgetting in balance with memory is the true and very natural cognitive power bestowed on us to live true and very natural cognitive power bestowed on us to live in an ever-fluctuating world, one that is also often frightening and painful. The right to be forgotten was legally determined in European courts in 2010, when it was successfully argued that permanent record, in this case on the internet, could have damaging consequences for a person's life. In a similar spirit, our brains are right to forget.

We now know that forgetting is not just normal but beneficial to our cognitive and creative abilities, to our emotional well-being, and even to societal health.

Scott A. Small-Forgetting. The benefits of Not Remembering