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

Do you sometimes walk into another room in your house to get something, but then can't remember what it was you wanted?

Do you sometimes forget about an appointment or struggle to remember someone's name?

You may have chalked these lapses in memory up to getting older.

An age can indeed play a role in the diminishing power of memory. But as my guest

will tell us, there are other factors at play as well. Charin-Raganath is a

neuroscientist, a psychologist, and the author of, Why We Remember,

Unlocking memory's power to hold on to what matters.

Tain the show, Charon explains how factors like how we direct our attention, take photos, and move through something

called event boundaries all affect our memory. And how our current context in life impacts

which memories were able to recall from the past. We all talk about how to reverse engineer these factors to improve your memories.

After the show is over, Welcome to the show.

So you are in the Charin-Raganoth, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Brett. Great to be here.

So you are a neuroscientist and you've spent your career 20 plus years researching memory.

And we're going to talk today about, you know, why we remember some things, why we forget other stuff,

and what we can do to improve our memory. But after I read your book, one of the big takeaways I got from it was that

memory is more than just an archive of our past.

That actually memory shapes our day-to-day lives.

So how does memory influence our lives beyond just being able to recall events.

So one just very kind of a simple example would be let's say you wake up in a hotel room, right?

Your first question as you wake up, as you're a little disoriented and probably

without even thinking about it, you're having this moment of where am I? And just to situate yourself in time and space right it's like you can look around you know where you are in the room but where is this room it could be in like a

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