Are Any of Your Memories Actually Real?

Are you accidentally sabotaging your motivation and focus in the first hour after you wake up? In today’s episode, I’m going to show you how to use a science-backed morning routine to optimize your brain, protect your dopamine baseline, and program your nervous system for peak pe ...  Show more

If I followed you around all day, would I see someone truly productive—or someone distracted from the life they say they want? In this episode, I’m breaking down six powerful strategies to help you stop wasting energy on open loops, delete what doesn’t matter, and focus on managi ...  Show more

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.

¿Has tenido recuerdos de tus vidas pasadas?  En este episodio, que publicamos por primera vez el 1 d febrero, compartimos tres historias de oyentes que han experimentado pensamientos o sueños que los conectan con vestigios de un pasado, que parece estar muy presente.

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The idea of repressed memories goes all the way back to Freud, through the 90’s when therapists accidentally implanted people with false memories, through the courtrooms, and into today where the idea of repressed memories is still popular among lay people and controversial am ...

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 ...