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Podcast: Blinkist Podcast - Interviews | Personal Development | Productivity | Business | Psychology
Episode: Forgetful? Harvard Prof Daniel Schacter Explains Why Our Memories Are So Flawed
Description: For this episode, we talked to Daniel Schacter, professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers.
Our conversation focused on the three “sins of omission” outlined in his book on memory. The big bad memory sins, in order of badness, are: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking. Tune in for Schacter’s insights on how to remember what you have to remember and forget what you need to forget.
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Highlights:
"We tend to think of memory as being all about the past...But remembering the past has a lot in common with i...