Neuroscientist Reveals The Truth About Memory & How We Can Remember Better | Charan Ranganath

VIVOBAREFOOT is sponsoring today’s show. To get 20% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER visit: Download my FREE Sleep Guide HERE: Download my FREE Habit Change Guide HERE: We often think about our memories as a record of the past – but what if they’re only a selective and evolving version of it? Today’s guest is a world-leading memory expert who has a surprising message: we’re not supposed to remember everything. In fact, our brains are designed to forget. And much of what you experience today will be lost by tomorrow. Dr Charan Ranganath is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For more than 25 years, he has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modelling and research on patients with memory disorders. The occasion for his appearance on my podcast is the publ