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performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Scott Small is a physician specializing in aging and dementia.

He's a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University where he's the director

of the Alzheimer's disease research center. He's run a national institutes of health-funded

laboratory for over 20 years and has published more than 140 studies on memory function and

malfunction research that has been covered by the New York Times and New Yorker and time.

And today we're going to discuss his fascinating book titled For Getting. The benefits of not

remembering. Yes, you heard that right. Scott, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me.

So I found your book fascinating and if we asked our audience of listeners if they wanted a better

memory myself included, I think everyone raised their hand yes. But you say in your book called

For Getting, the benefits of not remembering that in fact there are benefits of forgetting. So

let's start there. Let you down this path. It's a bit counterintuitive given what you do. So let's go

there. Yeah, it's a great first question because it's counterintuitive to you, to me and it's

particularly counterintuitive to someone like me who's professionally focused on trying to

always improve memory. That's basically what I was trained through in basic science and my

training in neurology. And so the first thing I'll say is that this is not meant to be just a

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