attention & memory: we can not ever choose to forget about something once we experience it. what you pay attention to matters.

Have you ever realized that once you see or hear something, you do not have the ability to forget about it?

You can actively try to remember something, but the opposite is not true. You cannot actively forget about something.

What's the implication of this information itself?

Well, take an example of a child watching a scary movie. As a result of that, because they can't simply forget about that experience, they have nightmares for the next few weeks — could be even years of their life.

The fact that information can have that sort of effect on our bodies, on our minds, means that the opposite potentially could be true too.

It's literally all about what information you let in into your own minds. What you choose to see, what you choose to hear. And we do have a lot of choice in this area, because we can apply filters towards our own lives — towards what applications we look at, what news sources we look at, what people we interact with.

Just simply not seeing — or seeing — or hearing — or not hearing — something has a massive implication towards what value of information we do or do not receive.

And we, as parents, also have a massive responsibility to our children. Because our children have less mature minds than ourselves. They have less experience in this world. They don't process information as well as we do.

If we are struggling already as it is today to figure out what is real and not real in this world, what chance is there to help children have?

Let's move for thought. Have a think about it.