What Charan Ranganath thinks about happiness

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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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1. 25 May 2024

   Our readingNostalgia is a selective reading of the past — useful when it makes you happy now, toxic when it narrows what you can see of the present.

   Their wordsIt’s just this idea that people have about the past can be very useful if it brings you happiness in the present, but if it narrows your worldview in the present, you’re not aware of those biases that you have, it can be toxic either at a personal level or at a collective level.

   ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com 17th of 20 in this recording