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Forgetfulness

See also Carelessness.

Absent-Minded Beggar, The

ballad of forgetful soldiers who fought in the Boer War. [Br. Lit.: “The Absent-Minded Beg-gars” in Payton, 3]

absent-minded professor

personification of one too contemplative to execute practical tasks. [Pop. Culture: Misc.]

jujube

causes loss of memory and desire to return home. [Classical Myth.: Leach, 561–562]

Lethe

river of Hades which induced forgetfulness. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 687; Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]

limbo

place or condition of neglect and inattention (from Dante). [Western Folklore: Espy, 124]

Lotophagi

African people, eaters of an amnesia-inducing fruit. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Br. Lit.: “The Lotus-Eaters” in Norton, 733–736]

Madison, Percival Wemys

character who no longer remembers his name. [Br. Lit.: Lord of the Flies]

soma

drug that induces forgetfulness. [Br. Lit.: Brave New World]

Winkle, Rip Van

awakening from 20 years’ sleep, forgets how things have changed. [Am. Lit.: Sketch Book, Payton, 574]

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Learning something new requires forgetting something old-and that is hard for organizations that remember too much.

The internet is rotting-let's embrace it

"A moderate level of brain activity is critical to this forgetting mechanism.

Forgetting requires more brain power than remembering

Their findings not only confirmed that humans have the ability to control what they forget, but that successful intentional forgetting required "moderate levels" of brain activity in these sensory and perceptual areas -- more activity than what was required to remember.

Forgetting: More Brain Power Than Remembering

But the same process that leads to this brief inconvenience also leads to the forgetting of irrelevant thoughts - a process we need.

Stop and consider the virtues of forgetfulness

While the document still exists, you don't have a good way of getting to it, and today many memory researchers don't even use the word "forgetting".

Forgot where you parked? Good

These results show that intentional forgetting isn't a passive process--the brain has to actively work to wipe out a memory on purpose.

Forgetting can be hard work for the brain

Using the directed forgetting method, several authors were able to show a compromised retrieval inhibition in subjects with AD.

"Forget to whom you have told this proverb": directed forgetting of destination memory in Alzheimer's disease

Forgetting valuable Information, techniques, and knowledge in an organization can lead to competitive advantage lose; however it's an essential process in change management.

An analysis the cause and effect relationships and finding the structural equation model between all aspects of transformational leadership Organizational Forgetting and the perception of productivity

But if my memory fails me in the compilation of the list, will I ever remember what I've forgotten that was supposed to stop me forgetting the thing I forgot in the first place?

Better off to forget it

Whitehead concludes that forgetting has become "a crucial if not essential element in the future tra-jectory and direction of 'memory' studies." (4) She bases her argument for this mode of forgetting on Paul Ricoeur's concept of an "oubli de reserve," which he defines as "le caractere inapergu de la perseverance du souvenir, sa soustraction a la vigilance de la conscience." (5) In his analysis, based on his reading of Heidegger, he argues that whether forgetting functions as destruction or preservation can be determined by the "meaning attached to the idea of the past." He explains that if the past is considered as "being-no-longer," as expired, then forgetting destroys our memories of the past.

Rene Char's Fragmented Feuillets d'Hypnos: holding memories of the resistance in reserve

As its title indicates, this collection recognizes a related and growing interest in forgetting, a process with its own cultural roles, iconography, and material history.

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature: Lethe's Legacies

As the book's title suggests, however, Sullivan offers an in-depth examination of memory and forgetting in the English Renaissance drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Webster.

Garret A. Sullivan, Jr.: Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster

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