Your Memories Are Not Accurate

What if you could completely change your life in the next 365 days? In this episode, I break down the five steps you need to take to transform your mindset, habits, identity, and direction—from taking total ownership of your life to creating a clear vision, reverse-engineering yo ...  Show more

Why do you keep procrastinating even when you know exactly what you need to do? In this episode, I break down why procrastination isn’t laziness or a lack of willpower—it’s your brain and nervous system trying to protect you from fear, failure, judgment, and uncertainty. I’ll sho ...  Show more

Our memories are easily contaminated. We can be made to believe we rode in a hot air balloon or kissed a magnifying glass — even if those things never happened. So how do we know which of our memories are most accurate? This week, psychologist <a href="https://as.tufts.edu/psy ...

We rely on our memory to understand the world. But what if our memories aren't true? This week, we talk to psychologist Elizabeth Loftus about the malleability of memory — what we remember, and what we think we remember.

Is your notion of yourself built on narrative that may or may not be accurate? If someone told you an entirely false story about yourself, could you come to believe it? What does that have to do with six people who spent over a decade in prison together for a crime they didn't co ...  Show more

I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that your memory is a liar. 

We tend to think our memory is telling us exactly what happened in the past but that’s never what it does. It adds details. It deletes details. It distorts details. Your memory is a r ...