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Today in Focus

How to reboot your memory for 2024

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Cognitive neuroscientist Charan Ranganath, author of Why We Remember, explains how memory shapes our daily existence – and how to get the most out of it. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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1:15.0

Maybe you're idly scrolling through your phone or doing the washing up.

1:22.0

Perhaps this is on in the background while you clear out your wardrobe or catch up on work emails.

1:28.0

But in the spirit of the New Year and a chance to do something differently, I'm going to boldly suggest that you stop.

1:38.0

Because if you're like me and you wonder about the health of your brain, if you wish it could help you remember better and you could improve how you

1:46.2

keep the important facts in, well you'll want to just focus on this next conversation.

1:53.0

That's really the truth of memory in general is that less is more.

1:57.0

The less that you can remember and the more quality, the more information you can pack into every memory the better you will do and

2:06.8

our brain is constantly prioritizing quality over quantity and that's why our attention

2:11.7

is so limited is because it allows us to get the most

2:15.2

information out of something.

2:20.4

Dr. Charon Ranganath is a foremost expert in the science of memory, an author of the forthcoming book,

2:27.0

Why We Remember.

2:29.0

So who better to help us understand more about how modern life is really affecting our attention spans

2:35.6

and how might we use some of that optimistic New Year energy to declutter our minds.

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