Hard times create great memories | Charan Ranganath and Lex Fridman

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Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.

Not if your suffering gives you trauma that haunts you forever, speaking from experiance

[RichardBrubaker]

It's very telling that he remembers COVID as a time being "stuck inside with the same people" stuck on screens.

Perhaps that is the suffering he needed to tell a story, but it's important to note the "suffering" was a CHOICE that he made when others took the opportunity to do something where they emerged on the other side stronger & better for that time.

[nvention]

"Oh, I can smile about it now
But at the time it was terrible "

[ew]

No longer is my past an autobiography; it is a reference book to be taken down, opened and shared. Today as I report for duty, the most wonderful picture comes through. For, though this day be dark – as some days must be – the stars will shine even brighter later. My witness that they do shine will be called for in the very near future. All my past will this day be a part of me, because it is the key, not the lock.

[pikiwiki]

if hard times create great memories think of how productive prison must be