Have you ever gone back to a video, a book, or even a conversation and realized you remembered almost nothing from it? It feels like your brain has failed you but what if forgetting isn’t failure at all? In this episode of FutureIQ, we explore why your mind doesn’t work like a hard drive, storing neat little files forever, but more like a compiler, constantly rewriting and updating the way you see the world.From Paul Graham’s reflections on books to the science of memory and the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, we uncover why the details slip away but the deeper patterns stay behind, quietly shaping how you think. This is why you suddenly start seeing “incentive design” or “preference cascades” everywhere your brain has been primed, even if you can’t recall the source. Psychologists call this the Baader Meinhof effect, but you’ll simply experience it as the world looking different after exposure.And here’s the twist: even if you forget the content of a FutureIQ episode, the Algorithm doesn’t. By watching, you teach YouTube what to feed you next, nudging your entire digital environment toward smarter ideas. Forgetting, paradoxically, may be the very reason the learning sticks—because it seeps into your intuition, into the part of you that acts without thinking.This episode is about why forgetting isn’t the enemy of knowledge, but the engine of wisdom.