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Sönke Ahrens has a good point on forgetting in "How To Take Smart Notes". We view it as a negative thing, but if we remembered everything we would be drowned in
by shime 5y ago
Sönke Ahrens has a good point on forgetting in "How To Take Smart Notes". We view it as a negative thing, but if we remembered everything we would be drowned in details and we wouldn't be able to distinguish signal from the noise. He argues that forgetting makes us able to learn.
- shock 5y ago> if we remembered everything we would be drowned in details and we wouldn't be able to distinguish signal from the noise. Not to mention how difficult it would be to distinguish past from present.