Why does the brain mostly remember tragic, bad or embarassing memories instead of the happy ones
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Your brain is trying to help you learn the most important things in the world: what can hurt you.
Less ELI5, but holding up well after after a couple of millennia:
All those who learn must suffer
And even in our sleep
Pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until
In our despair, against our will
Comes wisdom from the awful grace of god
-Aeschylus
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