Being Forgetful is a Sign of a Sharp Mind: Study

A new study has found that Forgetfulness is one of the positive signs of mental health, not the negative. A study by the University of Toronto claims that memory strength is ‘overrated’ and concluded that being distracted or forgetting things can be beneficial to your intelligence.

‘It’s important that the brain forgets about irrelevant (unnecessary) details and instead focuses on things that actually help make decisions. (the part that stores memory) neurons increase in number, but these are precisely the details that are not relevant or necessary information for your life, nor can they prevent you from making good decisions. 

Professor Richards and Paul Frankland, involved in the research, have suggested that ‘memory’ should retain valuable information and forget other unimportant things, forming a habit of making decisions.

All the researchers involved in the study also agreed that forgetting is a positive process, making room for important things in the mind and helping important information stay together as a memory.