: How do we forget something easily even if we try to remember it as hard as we can, but the same thing comes to our mind when we are not even thinking about it?

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: How do we forget something easily even if we try to remember it as hard as we can, but the same thing comes to our mind when we are not even thinking about it?

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Seems to me that you think of a thing in a certain mindset, and then the act of trying to remember it puts you in a different mindset. Then you slip into the original mindset and think of the thing again.