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We tend to forget that our brains are talented forgers, weaving a tapestry of memory and perception whose detail is so compelling that its inauthenticity is rarely detected.
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The fact that it is so much easier to remember the past than to generate the possible causes us to make plenty of weird decisions.
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Much research incontrovertibly shows that memory is biased and unpredictable – more like a patchwork quilt than the seamless tapestry of reality we like to imagine.
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Research in neuroscience and cognitive science shows that people remember and respond most effectively to what they see and experience.
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Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.
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What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience.
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A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing.
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Human beings are wired to remember and internalize negative experiences with vastly greater force than positive ones…
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…with or without social support, you can use your thoughts to improve your mind, mood, memory, reactions, happiness, and performance.
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