There was only one thing his brilliant memory failed…

There was only one thing his brilliant memory failed to do. It could not forget. It was flooded by images of his childhood, for example, which could cause him acute malaise and chagrin.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

In the book

And here is a counterintuitive gift: more information and more memory are not always better. There was a man whose memory was so perfect he could forget nothing — and he was nearly crippled by it, drowning in detail, unable to see the forest for every single tree. A degree of useful forgetting, of cognitive limitation, is part of what lets you think at all. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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