Why We Remember and How to Hold on to What Matters with Dr. Charan Ranganath

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Smart People Industries

Business, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Memory isn't just a passive recollection—it's a transformative force that subtly influences our world. Dr. Ranganath, a leading memory researcher, unveils the powerful influence memory has on our lives, from recalling faces and names to shaping learning, decision-making, and even trauma and healing. He reveals how our brains record the past, shaping our present and guiding our future. Join us as we explore practical applications of this knowledge, from daily tasks like finding keys to addressing memory challenges as we age. Dr. Ranganath also shows how leveraging our brain's ability to reinterpret past events can lead to healing trauma, shedding biases, and fostering self-awareness. Charan's book, Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters, is available now. To learn more about Charan, go to charanranganath.com. Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Sponsors: Hims - Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/SMART. The Optimistic Outlook - Dive into The Optimistic Outlook and join a community of listeners who are enthusiastic about big, transformative ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.5	Told you I was going to speed up.
0:52.7	The intros, and I'm feeling
0:54.7	frisky. Listen, this week on the show, we are interviewing Sharon Ranganath. And it still blows my
1:00.6	mind that I get to talk to people like this consistently. He is a professor at the Center for
1:05.5	Neuroscience and Department of Psychology and Director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California
1:12.0	at Davis. For over 25 years, he studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to
1:17.9	remember. He used brain imaging techniques, computational modeling, studies of patients,
1:23.8	and much more to be what's considered one of the leading, if not the leading expert on
1:29.6	memory. So of course, that's what we're talking to him about today. Now, yes, he did write a book.
1:36.3	The title is, Why We Remember, unlocking memory's power to hold on to what matters.
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