Our Inability To Recall How

To Learn From Experience, We Must Remember It, And, For A Variety Of Reasons, Memory Is A Faithless Friend.

Which Is More Important - Experience Or Memory Of Experience? If You Could Have An Hour Of Ecstasy That You'd Forever Remember As Torture, Or An Hour Of Torture That You'd Forever Remember As Ecstasy, Which Would You Prefer?

The Mistakes We Make When We Try To Imagine Our Personal Futures Are Also Lawful, Regular, And Systematic. They, Too, Have A Pattern That Tells Us About The Powers And Limits Of Foresight In Much The Same Way That Optical Illusions Tell Us About The Powers And Limits Of Eyesight.

Few Of Us Can Accurately Gauge How We Will Feel Tomorrow Or Next Week. That's Why When You Go To The Supermarket On An Empty Stomach, You'll Buy Too Much, And If You Shop After A Big Meal, You'll Buy Too Little.

In Short, If We Adhere To The Standard Of Perfection In All Our Endeavors, We Are Left With Nothing But Mathematics And The White Album.