Arthur Brooks

Because I was savoring the memory of me savoring the present.

This recursive structure created by time travel, the prefrontal cortex.

It's a miracle, isn't it?

Able to edit my memory in this particular way, in a positive way.

Richness of reminiscence is doing exactly that.

It's to savor the past on purpose by paying attention to the

The positive parts.

And by the way, the editing of memory is a very interesting area of research.

You know, you can say, oh, yeah, you know, Thanksgiving of 1996.

That's when, you know, you know, Uncle Chet, he, you know, got so drunk and he barfed in the front yard and went and beat up the neighbor.

Yeah.

There was something good that happened that day too, probably.

I'm just going to guess.

Second time zone is the present, and that's the degree of conscious enjoyment.

That's really kind of the main focus of what we're talking about here.

Savoring the present, being here fully, thinking about the good that is in this, the experience, the full experience.

know that's that's that that full experience has almost theological overtones the the great uh catholic saint irenaeus of the second century his most famous quote is that the glory of god is a man fully alive and to be fully alive is to be fully present why because only in the present can you love you can't love in a different time you can't love in the past or love in the future love is now

If you're not here now, you're not loving.

By the way, important for your relationships.

Why should you savor your marriage?