The Secret of Success Is a Little Less Imperfect Than Others

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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. And so if you don't value memories and sort of shared experiences in the same way as other people, maybe you're constantly thinking about stuff that's not actually related to the moment. That's also, so, this is where i would come back to things like perception. It looks perfect because ours is so imperfect that we can't even tell that it's imperfect. Tha

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion.

Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.

From her book’s website: “In The Memory Illusion, Dr Julia Shaw uses the latest research to show the astonishing variety of ways in which our memory can indeed be led astray. Fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, the international bestseller The Memory Illusion has been translated into 20 languages and offers a unique insight into the human brain, challenging you to question how much you can ever truly know about yourself.”

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