citylife
Recent studies show that a person's ability to remember (especially visual stimuli) has much more to do with filtering out irrelevant information than it does storage capacity. It seems that city life makes that filtering process more difficult. At the same time, there are definitive creative advantages to allowing irrelevant information into the mind, thus explaining, perhaps, why cities have traditionally been breeding grounds for artistic and scientific discovery.
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I'm reading *lust for life* a biography of Vincent Van Gogh. While his Paris experiences was vital hanging with seurat,gaugin, and henri rousseau, he tires of it in two years and heads for the country. Just like Picasso. Seems there is a need for both. Of Van Gogh just about starved to death every time he was in the country.
This must be why I can't remember shit anymore...
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