• Octoham@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    the brain typically remembers things associated with strong emotional reactions, esp. negative reactions, presumably in order to remember your mistakes and not do them again.

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      17 hours ago

      Exactly. So it’s sad that the positive things don’t feature more strongly in our memories, just like the OP meme suggests.