Forgetting Has Its Benefits

I knew I had a good reason. J From the WSJ:

“Neuroscientists say forgetting is crucial to the efficient functioning of the mind, to learning, adapting and recalling more significant things.”

"’We focus so much on memory that forgetting has been maligned,’ says Gayatri Devi, a neuro-psychiatrist and memory expert in New York City. ‘But if you didn't forget, you'd recall all kinds of extraneous information from your life that would drown you in a sea of inefficiency.’”