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I used to stress about this until I came across this quote: “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have mad
by replicatorblog 9y ago
I used to stress about this until I came across this quote:
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even if you don't have a photographic memory, reading changes our perspective in important ways.
- Vinnl 9y agoThis is both a blessing and a curse. I'm always afraid that I will read false or unreliable things, actually recognise it for what it is, but still have it linger in my brain enough that I will believe it in the future...
- emodendroket 9y agoIn fact a number of psychological studies have found that people will remember false information as true if you tell it to them and then immediately explain it is false. At least that's how I remember it. :)
- rwnspace 9y agoI really hope that the other direction gives the desired result.
- emodendroket 9y agoThat seems doubtful.