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Why we remember trivial things but forget what matters

I can remember every Pokemon from 1998 but I cannot remember my coworker's name after six months and it is embarrassing

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Attention naturally flows toward pleasure and novelty rather than social necessity, revealing the gap between natural memory and social demands.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Spaced repetition and the science of remembering?”

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