Charan Ranganath

And so a bit of intention goes a long way in helping you remember what you need as opposed to trying to remember everything and expecting it should be there. And so that's a really big one. And I guess the other one is that memory is supposed to be about the past, and it's really about the present and the future. Why? Well, let's just take the present, for instance, right?

For you just to keep up with this conversation, you're constantly referring back in memory to things that I previously said. If you did not have memory, you'd just be repeating the same question over and over and over again, right? And you see this in people with memory disorders. They will repeat themselves every 10 minutes because they don't remember.

For you just to keep up with this conversation, you're constantly referring back in memory to things that I previously said. If you did not have memory, you'd just be repeating the same question over and over and over again, right? And you see this in people with memory disorders. They will repeat themselves every 10 minutes because they don't remember.

For you just to keep up with this conversation, you're constantly referring back in memory to things that I previously said. If you did not have memory, you'd just be repeating the same question over and over and over again, right? And you see this in people with memory disorders. They will repeat themselves every 10 minutes because they don't remember.

It's one of the biggest signs if you have a relative who's entering dementia. If they say the same thing over and over again and don't remember that they've repeated themselves, that's a big sign that they have a memory problem. So that's just one example. But, you know, others are just your ability to recall memories and use it to make sense of what's going on right now.

It's one of the biggest signs if you have a relative who's entering dementia. If they say the same thing over and over again and don't remember that they've repeated themselves, that's a big sign that they have a memory problem. So that's just one example. But, you know, others are just your ability to recall memories and use it to make sense of what's going on right now.

It's one of the biggest signs if you have a relative who's entering dementia. If they say the same thing over and over again and don't remember that they've repeated themselves, that's a big sign that they have a memory problem. So that's just one example. But, you know, others are just your ability to recall memories and use it to make sense of what's going on right now.

Well, I've been here before and therefore here's what I can expect is going to happen now. Um, I've done this podcast a number of times and I know I can do this and I'm going to be, do a great job of interviewing because I've interviewed a lot of people before. Right. Um, and that's also your expectations for the future and your predictions about the future.

Well, I've been here before and therefore here's what I can expect is going to happen now. Um, I've done this podcast a number of times and I know I can do this and I'm going to be, do a great job of interviewing because I've interviewed a lot of people before. Right. Um, and that's also your expectations for the future and your predictions about the future.

Well, I've been here before and therefore here's what I can expect is going to happen now. Um, I've done this podcast a number of times and I know I can do this and I'm going to be, do a great job of interviewing because I've interviewed a lot of people before. Right. Um, and that's also your expectations for the future and your predictions about the future.

And so, uh, your ability to remember to, you know, you want to be able to buy groceries when you get to the store, uh, You're using memory to project into the future what you will be buying from the store, right? And then later on when you get to the store, you have to rely on memory to buy those things. So, I mean, I can give you a billion examples.

And so, uh, your ability to remember to, you know, you want to be able to buy groceries when you get to the store, uh, You're using memory to project into the future what you will be buying from the store, right? And then later on when you get to the store, you have to rely on memory to buy those things. So, I mean, I can give you a billion examples.

And so, uh, your ability to remember to, you know, you want to be able to buy groceries when you get to the store, uh, You're using memory to project into the future what you will be buying from the store, right? And then later on when you get to the store, you have to rely on memory to buy those things. So, I mean, I can give you a billion examples.

I mean, these are just ones that just popped up off the top of my head. There's no shortage of examples in terms of how memory is about the present and the future. If it were just about the past, it would be useless because the past is over. We survived the past, so there's nothing in the past that we need to hold on to except the stuff that matters for the present and the future.

I mean, these are just ones that just popped up off the top of my head. There's no shortage of examples in terms of how memory is about the present and the future. If it were just about the past, it would be useless because the past is over. We survived the past, so there's nothing in the past that we need to hold on to except the stuff that matters for the present and the future.

I mean, these are just ones that just popped up off the top of my head. There's no shortage of examples in terms of how memory is about the present and the future. If it were just about the past, it would be useless because the past is over. We survived the past, so there's nothing in the past that we need to hold on to except the stuff that matters for the present and the future.

Well, so I have a website called charanranganath.com. and people can sign up for a sub stack. I haven't actually started writing them yet, but now that I'm done with teaching for the year, I can, I'll start to use that to create a mailing list free. I'm not going to sell anything to anyone. I just, cause it's not what I do for a living. So, so people could just get more information that way.

Well, so I have a website called charanranganath.com. and people can sign up for a sub stack. I haven't actually started writing them yet, but now that I'm done with teaching for the year, I can, I'll start to use that to create a mailing list free. I'm not going to sell anything to anyone. I just, cause it's not what I do for a living. So, so people could just get more information that way.

Well, so I have a website called charanranganath.com. and people can sign up for a sub stack. I haven't actually started writing them yet, but now that I'm done with teaching for the year, I can, I'll start to use that to create a mailing list free. I'm not going to sell anything to anyone. I just, cause it's not what I do for a living. So, so people could just get more information that way.

You can also look up information about my events. Also, I have an Instagram that's pretty active and, And people can follow me there at The Memory Doc, The Memory D-O-C. And that's a good one. And I'm a little less active on LinkedIn, but I have LinkedIn and Blue Sky as well. I'm off Twitter now because it's a hellscape. That's another conversation, though.