Yeah, we're rolling.

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast special.

I'm excited.

This is where we ask a question and we get an expert to tell us the answer.

Today's question, why is my memory so bad?

Answering the question is Dr. Julius Shaw.

She has written a book called The Memory Illusion, Remembering, Forgetting and the Science

of False Memories.

She actually believes you can change your memories.

I think so it's worth staying tuned for this.

I have some memories I'd like to get rid of.

How is your memory, Mark?

It's all right, actually.

It's all right.

Is it?

Yeah, it's not perfect.

It's not photographic in any way or whatever that term is or we'll ask about

that yeah i think she thinks photographic memories don't exist so we'll ask about that i struggle

with names mainly right um you've got hers you just remembered hers i've this written down right

i've got a book in front of me um and a book's really interesting actually fascinating so much

stuff about the memory.

I'll leave it for the interview, though.

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