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179 - The Memory Illusion - Julia Shaw
You Are Not So Smart
We Are So Poor at It, It's Not One to One
I think that there are a lot of people who sort of live in the past and live in their memories. I place much more value on present and future thinking, which is why I like science fiction. Part of the reason I study false memories is because my memory is quite bad, especially for autobiographical things. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives and our memory is right now. And let's just focus if we can as much as possible on the now.
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