210 - Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Secret of Success Is a Little Less Imperfect Than Others
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
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