Your brain rewrites memories to match your current story, so roughly half of what you remember is inaccurate or made up. The mental version of yourself changes over time because the brain constantly reshapes the past to fit who you are now.
Did you know that half of your memories may have never happened and half could be made up? Now, this is good because you can stop using your past experiences as a crutch. Because here's a mind-blowing fact: brain research reveals that 50% of your rehearsed memories from over the past never really happened the way you remembered them. You see, our brains are incredibly creative, constantly rewriting our past to fit our current narrative. This means the brain you have now isn't the same one you had decades ago, and those past experiences you're clinging to, they might not have even happened as accurate as you think.
