Your Memories Are Like Paintings
Memories can also be thought of as dreamlike. They’re more a romantic story than a faithful document of a life event. And there’s good content to be found in these dreamy recollections we have of past experiences.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Our sense of who we are depends, in significant part, on our memories. And yet they’re not to be trusted. ‘What is selected as a personal memory,’ writes Professor of psychology and neuroscience Giuliana Mazzoni, ‘needs to fit the current idea that we have of ourselves.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
There’s a Russian saying about nostalgia: “The past is more unpredictable than the future.”
It’s so common for people’s memories about a time to become disconnected from how they actually felt at the time.
When thinking about our own lives, we don’t remember how we actually felt in the past; We remember how we think we should have felt, given what we
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