Imagine if you could delete bad memories. Well, you can | Ed Cooke

A new study shows that it is possible to deliberately forget things. It is a surprisingly essential life skillA mental adventure familiar to most students is that of cramming one’s mind with knowledge in the run up to an exam. Once the exam is done, we gleefully evacuate our brain of all this hard-won learning that’s no longer needed. Within days, we can barely remember the subject matter, let alone the details. At such moments, it’s as if we’ve forgotten on purpose. It m