25. It's a good thing that people forget

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Why does the brain forget? Is it a flaw?	Forgetting things is not a flaw, but it's a way your mind filters out unnecessary information.
Who created the Forgetting Curve?	Hermann Ebbinghaus (1886). Image: 300px Ebbinghaus2 (binary/octet-stream)
What is the Forgetting Curve and what is the formula?	R is memory retention, S is the relative strength of memory, and T is the time which is called the Forgetting Curve which shows we forget information unless it is stored in long-term memory. Image: Forgetting Curve (binary/octet-stream)

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