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Charan Ranganath

Charan Ranganath

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Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Dynamic Memory Lab, and author of Why We Remember.

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Learning machine

Keep learning after school, and learn from other people's mistakes as well as your own.

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You only retain what you were pushed to your limit on: if learning feels like coasting, you are not learning.

  1. Charan Ranganath Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California So that’s why I think this is a thing that I come back to over and over again, is that you will retain information better if you’re constantly pushing yourself to your limit. If you are feeling like you’re coasting, then you’re actually not learning Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com · 25 May 2024 · 0:50:51 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsSo that’s why I think this is a thing that I come back to over and over again, is that you will retain information better if you’re constantly pushing yourself to your limit. If you are feeling like you’re coasting, then you’re actually not learning

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    ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com

    25 May 2024 · video · 3h 10m · spoken · official transcript

Less, but better

Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.

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The point of a good memory is not to remember more but to remember better, because forgetting most of what you experience is what human brains are built to do.

  1. Charan Ranganath Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California What I say in the book is is that you don’t want to remember more, you want to remember better, which means focusing on the things that are important. That’s what our brains are designed to do. Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com · 25 May 2024 · 0:32:06 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsWhat I say in the book is is that you don’t want to remember more, you want to remember better, which means focusing on the things that are important. That’s what our brains are designed to do.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:32:06 plays here

    ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com

    25 May 2024 · video · 3h 10m · spoken · official transcript