Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind

In a nutshell: "Big smile? Short memory."

EDIT: changed punctuation. i think it comes across more accurately this way.

Hitting a paywall

Try: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trying-to-f...

Paywall as well.

thanks.

Access it from reedit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/nu6qq/forgetting_is...

I think a more accurate title is "prioritization is key to a healthy mind.". Forgetting is just deprioritizing, and only by prioritizing can our mind efficiently filter and process the most important information.