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b"Whenever Dr. Scott Small is at a social event and tells people what he does for a living \\u2014 that he's a memory scientist \\u2014 they inevitably tell him how much they bemoan their own lapses in memory and frequent forgetfulness.\\n\\nBut in his new book, Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering, Scott makes the case that what we think is a problem is actually an advantage, and that if memory wasn't balanced with forgetfulness, life would be a nightmare."