I Try To Forget Everything And So Should You

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Research referenced in this video:
Forgetting generates a novel state that is reactivatable (2022) - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi9071
Decay happens: the role of active forgetting in memory (2013) - https://philpapers.org/rec/HARDHT
Dopamine-based mechanism for transient forgetting - (2020) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03154-y.epdf

Sleep is for forgetting (2013) - https://www.jneurosci.org/content/37/3/464
The function of dream sleep (1983) - http://www.rctn.org/vs265/crick-mitchison-sleep.pdf

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00:00 Opening Sequence
01:11 Introduction
02:12 Hermann Ebbinghaus and his curve
03:08 The novel brain state of forgetting
03:49 Active Recall and Spaced Repitition
04:15 The trap of remembering everything
06:34 How I Use Notion
09:45 Mental clarity
11:18 More science on forgetting
12:12 How should we forget?

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