Forgetting is a Skill/Superpower

I'm reminded by the "I spill more than you drink" quip said either about—or by—Dean Martin. Amongst my non-academic peers, I'd claim "I've forgotten more than you've read."

"As I go through life, I forget 99% of what happens to me which is a great filter for what is interesting." - @eliotpeper

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"There's a culture of obsession with note-taking, mind-mapping, memory-enhancement, and other ways of trying to codify and capture every idea you encounter. But forgetting is a superpower. It sifts signal from noise. It liberates you from everything that doesn't really matter." [ I think by: https://twitter.com/realjefflarge?

why I’m not an academic. I synthesize. I make it my own, realizing some one before had a version of (nearly) every thought I have had. I worry at times, am I plagiarlizing someone…

in History, the dates are just the scaffolding…

?akin to losing the bread crumbs so often you can still find your way through the forest