Great read: Neurologist Oliver Sacks on Memory, Plagiarism, and the Necessary Forgettings of Creativity

Brain Pickings is a good place to find interesting summaries who make you want to read more. This is a little element to convince you to check Brain Pickings so you could read this piece by Oliver Sacks:

“Sometimes these forgettings extend to autoplagiarism, where I find myself reproducing entire phrases or sentences as if new, and this may be compounded, sometimes, by a genuine forgetfulness. Looking back through my old notebooks, I find that many of the thoughts sketched in them are forgotten for years, and then revived and reworked as new. I suspect that such forgettings occur for everyone, and they may be especially common in those who write or paint or compose, for creativity may require such forgettings, in order that one’s memories and ideas can be born again and seen in new contexts and perspectives.”

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