After playing with memory techniques as a child I've come to the conclusion that forgetting is a feature, not a bug. If you're not remembering something your m

After playing with memory techniques as a child I've come to the conclusion that forgetting is a feature, not a bug. If you're not remembering something your mind's "garbage collection" system has come to the conclusion that it's not relevant enough for active recall. I'm for changing approaches to the material to change it's relevancy score, but forcing my mind to remember something's turns out usually to be pointless. Also... A mind full of irrelevant visual associations from some mnemonic techniques seems littered and distracting.