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Without a little forgetting, you get no benefit from further study. It is what allows learning to Build like an exercised muscle.

In many cases we stumble because we remember too much. If recollecting is just that a recollection of perceptions, facts, and ideas scattered in intertwining neural networks in the dark storm of the brain-then forgetting acts to block the background noise, the static, so that the right single stands out. The sharpness of one depends on the strength of the other.

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