Sally Kohn: We can use our senses to create new kind of more vivid memories in the future. She says we have such a strong tie between a sense and a time. In my life, there was a very particular perfume that I wore my senior year in college T rose. Like, I don't wear it now because I'm just like, that is just too much for the average person.Kohn: And so again, it's interesting how this can happen accidentally the way I formed the connection between college and my perfume.
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin was warned that her eyesight was in peril. It shocked her into realising she'd taken all of her five senses for granted - and so she resolved to wring every ounce of joy from the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures around her.
Concluding her conversation with Dr Laurie Santos, Gretchen explains how to be more alive to smell, taste and touch - building on the ideas in her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World.
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