Question: how do you remember certain things

Sallie Baxendale answered on 13 Mar 2017:

We normally remember some things and not others because they are important to us and also because we ‘rehearse’ the memories, that means we think and maybe even talk about them a lot so they get stuck in our brains. If something isn’t important, we may not even pay proper attention to it. When that happens we don’t have a hope of remembering it later on because we didn’t pay proper attention to it in the first place.