Science says: If you forget, you may have high intelligence

Forgetting has often been taken as a lack of intelligence, even in ancient Greek texts, for example in Plato's books.

However, a study by the University of Toronto claims that having a strong memory is an overrated asset of the mind, and it is concluded that forgetting may be something that benefits your intelligence, translates Periscope.

One of the publishers, Professor Blake Richland, said:

It's important that the brain forgets trivial details and focuses on things that help us make decisions in the real world. We know the exercise increases the number of neurons in the hippocamp, but it's exactly those details from your life that don't matter, that can block you from making decisions.

Professor Richards and Paul Frankland have said that memory has been adjusted in such a way as to facilitate decisions by providing valuable information and removing what is of no importance, to allow place for those with them.

Let's say the brain forgets specific details of the past, but yet it remembers things as a whole, which makes people more intelligent. /Periscopi