How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK | Lisa Genova
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You Don't Run Out of Room
There aren't parts of my brain that i just can't seem to use. That is a fallacy. And no, you don't run out of room. So there's a man, use his example in the book, a caraharagoche, a retired engineer from japan, who, at the age of 69, he's the guy who memorized over a hundred thousand digits of pie. Like what an age were we associate like you now, senior discounts and retirements? We can all do this if we wanted to. As you grow older, you don't lose the information of stuff you've learned. You've got that. It's not that that starts to go away
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