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Hello, Sona Kadar from All in the Mind here.

As you may or may not be able to tell from my voice, I am not feeling so well.

Like a lot of the country, I am sick.

It's not COVID, but it's one of the nasty bugs flying around at the moment.

But what it means is that our hiatus that was planned for three weeks

is going to stretch on a tiny bit longer.

So we've got another archive episode for you today while I try and recover.

It's a really fun one though and a pretty practical one too actually.

So take a listen and I'm going to take my sore head back to bed.

Imagine you're at a large dinner party. The wine is flowing, everyone's having a good time.

You've just been introduced to the person next to you and they tell you their name.

Do you remember it?

No. No.

No.

In one ear, out the other.

It's a definite no for me.

I am terrible at names.

And so was Anastasia.

She worried she had a shoddy memory in general.

Sort of affected the way I felt about myself and my confidence for, you know, learning new information or sometimes

even, you know, giving my input in a big social setting because I might not have the facts

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