Brent McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

And whenever Dr. Scott's smalls at a social event, he tells people what he does for

living that he's a memory scientist.

They never tell him how much they've been mone their own lapses in memory and frequent

forgetfulness.

But in his new book, Forgetting the Benefits of Not Remembring, Scott makes the case

that what we think is a problem is actually an advantage.

But if memory wasn't balanced with forgetfulness, life would be a nightmare.

Scott is the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University,

and he begins our conversation by making the distinction between pathological forgetting

like nomenchia and normal guard variety forgetting which we all experience, which is a bit

official type.

We then talk about how memories are made and what happens when they fail to solidify

and to forget things.

From there we discuss the surprising benefits of forgetting, from giving us the ability

to generalize, to allow these to move on from traumatic events, to enabling us to be more

magnamious in relationships.

We all talk about the role of sleep and forgetting and forgetting and creativity and how being

forgetful might actually make you better decision maker.

And we in our conversation with how to know if you're forgetting this normal or something

you should be concerned about.

After the show is over, check out our show notes at a-o-m.is slash forget.

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