The purpose of memory is not what you think

“People think that the purpose of memory is to remember the past and that’s not the purpose of memory. The purpose of memory is to extract out from the past, lessons to structure the future.”

– Jordan Peterson

The function of memory is not to remember the past but to help you navigate the future.

You simply don’t remember everything that happens to you each day but your heart-mind operating system selectively chooses what you remember so that you can move forward into the future.

This has tremendous implications. It challenges you to examine our thought life which is largely unconscious and which controls how you act or respond to a given situation.

All this does not really matter until you run into the brick wall of pain and suffering and find that your operating system just cannot cope with the challenges in front of you.

You are then forced to reexamine and upgrade your worldview and belief system (or OS Reality 360) that forms the lens through which you relate with your self and the world around you.

Self-examination is never easy

• It’s like looking into the mirror
• You will see your true self if you look closely
• You may not like what you see
• Then you have the choice to change
• Or continue to live the lie

NOTE — You have the freedom to choose to remember what is useful and discard what is not.

And then to move forward as a better person.

I would love to hear what you think. Please leave your comments below.